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My parents moved to Elm Park (Mungo Park Estate) around 1957, when I was around 18 months old, with my two brothers (John and Terry). I attended Scargill infants and junior school, in Simpson Road, and in 1966 went to Brittons ...Read more

A memory of Elm Park in 1966 by Bob Amies

I used to hang out in the early 1960s at the youth club on Slatyford Lane as a young teenager, also at the Miners Hall on Slatyford Lane. I met my future husband Rob Shaw (RIP). We used to go to the Denton Hotel for fun later in ...Read more

A memory of Denton Burn in 1961 by Anne Shaw

Does anyone recall Teddy Barlow, the night watchman who used to sit in his little sentry box in front of his brazier of burning coke, situated on Harding Ave, Monkswood, and who patrolled Harding Avenue and Haugh Avenue etc, new ...Read more

A memory of Rawmarsh in 1953 by William Toughill

Since I can remember, the Brig always had a football team and I just loved to watch them as a boy, harbouring dreams that some day I might be good enough to play with them. Davie and Rab Hall ran the side and ...Read more

A memory of Linlithgow Bridge in 1968 by Sandy Paterson

I was born in The Burn, Burrow Lane, Newton Poppleford in 1945. My parents were William Francis George Drake (George) and Dora May Drake nee Shobrook. My brother David Andrew Drake was born in 1942. ...Read more

A memory of Newton Poppleford by Rosemary Forslin

My maiden name was Margaret Connelly and I was taken to Tigna from birth for holidays up to the age of 13. My aunt had a wee place just at at the back of Corran Cottage in the village just at the side of the burn. My ...Read more

A memory of Tighnabruaich in 1920 by Margaret Murdoch

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

The shop that was operated by my grandmother at New Mill Bridge was home to me and my family during the Second World War. It was a haven where the madness of the war seemed to be so very remote and in a way, ...Read more

A memory of Shelsley Walsh in 1941 by Antony Cook

I remember most fondly the bonfires og Guy Fawkes Night in November. These structures would take weeks to build and always had a three piece suite at the centre. This was where the gang would 'live', yes live for some time prior to the ...Read more

A memory of Frizington in 1969 by Peter Walker

Living on the Barlby side of "the bridge" it seemed to dominate your life. If you had to catch a train, you set off a good deal earlier than normal in case you were "Bridged" ie in case it had to open for river traffic. I was born the ...Read more

A memory of Selby