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Hi we also lived in Thorntree gill number 65 .Have many memories even though we only live there for a few years 51 to 54.Went to Horden school use to walk there .Remember looking out of the bedroom window watching dad(Dick ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee by lesleymitchell

My parents bought the then new property of 14 little Bookham street sometime in the mid 1950's when I was a very young child. I went to school in East Horsley and one of my ...Read more

A memory of Little Bookham by lea.christopher

I was born in White Road in 1951 and went first to the nursery at Grace Road, where I remember a climbing net which was outside on a frame of some kind. It seemed huge. We had little blue camp beds ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook by magfrancis

My na me is Philip Stanway, I was bor n in 42 Jubilee street in November 1942 My best friend was ALan Bailey whom lived on Park road. New Mills was a great place to be growing up in at that time . So many open places, and the ...Read more

A memory of New Mills by phillip.stanway

Each year, the excitement mounted as summer drew near. Dad would drag out the large wicker hamper and Mum would start to fill it with clothes, wellies and tins of food from Galbraiths or the Co-op. By school's end, the ...Read more

A memory of Dunoon

My mum ran the raga muffin second hand shop in the satisfied from 1971 It was relocated when the new saimsbury a was opened in the mid eighties. I remember elliot butcher shop in West Street and the fish shop in swan street. Wales the ...Read more

A memory of Warwick by eaugerr

I have vivid memories of the slippery rock in Vernon Park. Other memories from the park were, the bench in the shelter at the lower entrance, I used to run around on top of the bench. The rhodedendron bushes, they were great for ...Read more

A memory of Stockport by lcwood

We moved to Swindon in 1957 from London (Wimbledon, actually) when my dad, a skilled engineer, got a job at Vickers Armstrongs at South Marston, with a brand new council house thrown in. In those post-war austerity days there was ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by besafisher

The crocuses around Savile park Manor Heath and on the way to Scircoat Green were, and still are the first glorious sign of Spring in Halifax. The roundabouts and parks have always been especially lovely and ...Read more

A memory of Halifax by jane.heighton

I went to the old school just down the road from the new one; A teacher that I remember was called John Satterly. And a friend of mine lived opposite the headmasters school house he was called Tommy Rice. His father was an ...Read more

A memory of Newmarket by boycottcb