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At 66 years of age I still keep in touch with most of my friends that belonged to the coal mine community. Living on Wombwell Main Pit Row we were a large family of nine. Our mother did her best to keep us clean and ...Read more

A memory of Gawber by Sallie Oughton /Taylor.

I went to Gobowen School from about 1964-1970. I lived in Hengoed, and when I first started school in Gobowen, my mum used to take me and collect me on the back of her bike. As I got older, I walked down Trewern Lane and cut ...Read more

A memory of Gobowen in 1966 by Gary Edwards

My dad ran the St George's youth club for a few years. He also had the butcher's shop on Old Road in Flowery Field and my grandpa owned the butchers on Croft Street. The youth club was up some rickety stairs in the loft space in ...Read more

A memory of Hyde

Born at 158 East Hill, I remember Claytons with the clock, Wavy Line across the road where I worked when I was 11, Ted and Ellen ran that, Fontaines sweetshop where I bought Jubblies with my sixpence. Went to St. Annes school. Would ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1959 by Margaret Loughran

As a very young lad I lived on Ankerdine Crescent on Shooter's Hill, but Mum frequently took me down to Woolwich for shopping on the market. I can clearly remember a butcher's stall close to Powis Street where ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1930 by Barry W J Chandler

My grandmother bought the Grove Hall and ran it as a small country hotel. I remember having my birthday parties in the dinning room. As kids we also used to play with the swords and battle axes that were hanging on the walls. ...Read more

A memory of Bodfari in 1958 by Michael Blackshaw

I have mentioned in passing that Intake did not have the same panache as say Balby, Hexthorpe or Armthorpe in places of entertainment but it did provide some wide open spaces to play in. Over the Armthorpe ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1946 by Frank Mowforth

During the Second World War I was sometimes taken by my mother to stay with her grandmother, Mrs Bevis, at the house called Rivermead, about 100 yards downhill from the church, by a sharp bend to the left. Mrs Bevis must have ...Read more

A memory of Sandhurst in 1942 by Bevis Lake

We moved to WGC in early 1956 and I went to Templewood School until 1959 before moving on to Welwyn Garden City Grammar School. I absolutely loved this school and have so many happy memories. I had so many ...Read more

A memory of Welwyn Garden City in 1956 by Pat Thomas

We were moved to Brasshouse Lane School as we had nowhere else to go. Mom and Dad were there for quite a few weeks, I went to stay at my Gran's house but I was not there long as two bombs were dropped in the ...Read more

A memory of Smethwick in 1942 by Ray Moon