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I lived in Clayton Street. I remember playing in the street - rounders where our ball kept bouncing against the gable end of Mrs Lowndes house in Meadow Lane, and she wasn't happy! We had no gardens and we all played in ...Read more

A memory of Dukinfield in 1940 by Winifred Watt

This is not really my memory but that of my father - Mr Thomas Roy Smith, now 83 years of age - ex RAF. Born in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire He was seving in the RAF at Compton Bassett during 1946 and we recently had one of ...Read more

A memory of Compton Bassett in 1946 by John Smith

My paternal Grandmother, Amelia Bedford, married Paul Tennant of 1 Wesleyan Chapel Row in 1915 after her first husband died. I can't find Wesleyan Chapel Row on a map of Shotton Colliery; does it still exist?

A memory of Shotton Colliery in 1910 by Denis Bedford

The family name is DAVIES, they lived in Penygraig, Pontlottyn and Clarendon Row, Rhymney in 1940, after the death of the mother they were taken to the Pontypridd Cottage Children's Home. Five of the children went to the home. If anyone has any information it will be appreciated.

A memory of Pontlottyn in 1942 by Frances Owen

I was born at home in Coleford Bridge Road in 1935 and grew up there, went to school in Frimley and lived in Mytchett until emigrating to Australia in 1964. In those early days life seemed very simple, only a handful of cars, making ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett in 1940 by David Greenland

This view is instantly familiar! There was a sweet shop right there which was a favourite destination on walks into the village. I lived with my family in Hoo for two or three years in the late 1950s. My father was Eric Cox; my ...Read more

A memory of Hoo in 1958 by Susan Cox

My grandparents lived in Colerne, my mother Minnie Louise Rowe was born there around the 1880s and my father William Simpkins lived in Colerne with the Aust family from when he was a baby. I was born in Bath in Kingsmead Road in ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1920 by Edgar Simpkins

Let me amend my memories of Harpurhey, after looking at some old photos of Manchester I can now remember and recollect other things, like for example holding on to the rails outside St Edmund's Junior School on the ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey in 1951

Hi. I was in the same year as Mary Martin/ Empson. My name was Maria Wareham. I remember the girls you mentioned plus Lynne Westcott, Denise Marsh, Maria Pia Montanaro, Bernadette Parkes, Christine Mc Inally(?), Eliza, and a few ...Read more

A memory of Bushey Heath in 1972 by Maria Pierson

In 1960, when I was 6, we moved into Longhalves, a detached house on the left of Hook Hill going up, and just on the brow of the hill. The road then was narrow and dangerous, and in about 1964 they took 3 - 4 yards off our front garden ...Read more

A memory of Freshwater in 1960 by Peter Adams