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I came to live in Boro with my parents, George & Mary Smith, and my young sister Karen, from Wingate, Co. Durham. My Dad was to take over as the first caretaker of the new Longlands College, which was still being ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1957 by George Smith

My name is Lynda Drew (nee Howarth). I remember St Abbs very fondly. In fact I have very great memories of the best holiday I can remember. My father, Stanley Howarth, was stationed at Coldingham with the RAF for a while during the ...Read more

A memory of Coldingham in 1954 by Lynda Drew

Hi, I remember transferring from a seaside town to Cranham, just about the time Ackworth the builders were busy on the Cranham Park Estate. The brickfields were our dens after school, making carts from scrap pieces of timber, axles and ...Read more

A memory of Upminster in 1954 by Ken Bainbridge

I was evacuated to Bedford during the second "Blitz" of WW II. This was the time when London was being attacked by the notorious V weapons, the Buzz Bomb and the rockets. My aunt lived in what is now Melbourne Street, but I think ...Read more

A memory of Wootton by Roy Barnacle

I was born near the end of the war in a house in Loring Road, Isleworth. My aunts, uncles & grandparents all lived in and around Isleworth. My father worked in the Pears Soap factory and my brothers & I all went to ...Read more

A memory of Isleworth in 1950 by Claire Wells

My mam had died not so long ago when I was 8 years old. Me and my brother and sister, and my dad, we lived in Elm Street, near the wall at the river that came out of the Ebbw Vale steel works, a nasty smelly water way that would ...Read more

A memory of Cwm in 1946 by Roy Compton

From 1964 I have many memories of growing up in Nantymoel and the closeness of the community, when people cared for one another and helped each other in times of need. I can remember never locking our front door even ...Read more

A memory of Nant-y-moel by Maria Gardner

Hi my name is Barrie George. I was born on Shakespear Street and went to Ross Place Jnr School and then Stanley Grove Boys School. Moved to Lamb Street behind Chiappies chippy. My best mates where Maurice Shaw and Tony ...Read more

A memory of Ardwick in 1949 by Barrie George

My memories are of my dad and his jazzband called Bryncynon Skylarks - we were good. I lived with my mam n dad at 15 Cross Street, till I moved to Pontypridd 12 yrs ago now. Would love to know if anyone has pictures of jazzband or carnivals from the 1970 -1979 thank you

A memory of Ynysboeth in 1870 by Katrina Jones

I was born in Abertysswg in 1943 and remained there until 1967 when I married and moved to Cardiff. Then, in 1985 I moved to Anglesey where I still live. I have only recently discovered this site and have now spent a very ...Read more

A memory of Abertysswg by Ursula Jones