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My father was born in Great Bedwyn, his name Arthur Maurice Hatter. When I was young in 1952 we were invited to stay with a member of his family in 47 High Street, I remember they had a wonderful garden, layered with full ...Read more

A memory of Great Bedwyn in 1952 by Arthur Hatter

My grandparents come from Elsecar and Wentworth, in Mill Lane, you may have seen the Roundhouse,Can`t miss it really just up from Pondside. When my real grandad died my grandmother remarried a man named Stanley Horn from Harley. ...Read more

A memory of Elsecar in 1952 by Susan Sutton

My Grandparents lived at 26 Otley Street in Skipton from the 1940 ( or earlier ) and I had first visited them in 1945 after VE day, They were Thomas Henry Jackson, my Grandmother Charlotte Jackson and their ...Read more

A memory of Skipton in 1952 by Trevor Jackson

My mother, Evelyn (Evie) Smith and my sister Susan(14) and I ( Polly aged 9) visited for about a month with my Auntie Vi in Sutton Mandeville on our way back to the USA after living in Egypt for a year. Auntie Vi had a ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Mandeville in 1952 by Polly Harris

I remember when I used to live in Gilfach Goch, Mount Pleasant, and the old settlement in the High Street. I used to perform puppet shows in the front room and charge one penny entrance fee, I spent the money in Leslie Belben's ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1952 by Brian Brown

It was around 1952 when these tragic accidents happened to to two Millfield families. I remember the day as plain today as it was then. A little boy had fallen into the Dewley Burn and drowned, his mother was Edna Clues who lived at the ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

I spent many summers at Torwoodlee Lodge with my Nanny (Jessie Scott Stewart) and a great uncle, Robert Brockie. As soon as school was out Mum, one of my brothers and myself would pack and catch the ...Read more

A memory of Galashiels in 1952 by Jean Weekes

I started married life in Padiham l952 we lived in Burns Street my 2 sons were born there at Bramley Meade nursing home in Whalley we were there till 1957 when we moved back to Blackburn because my husband trasferred from Padiham to be ...Read more

A memory of Padiham in 1952 by Margaret Hindle Nee Noblett

I first went to Zeals at the age of about 4 months, my grandparents lived in the row of cottages on Tulse hill. My grandparents where Mr and Mrs Hicks, with them lived my aunt who still lives there to-day, Phillys ...Read more

A memory of Zeals in 1952 by Ronald Taylor

My gran stayed in a wee cottage across from Kinears (the grocer), used to play rounders at auld beenie Aggie's front door. Play areas were the lintholes, the wells green, the mear, swam in the summer after building a dam at the bridge ...Read more

A memory of Balcurvie in 1952 by Jimmy Wilson