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Mum was a cleaner here in the immediate post-war (WW2) years. I have a memory of a large-scale model aircraft (Westland Lysander ?) on a large table, possibly in the entrance hall. So many country houses were demolished ...Read more

A memory of Sarnesfield by John Arrowsmith

If you walked around the first corner to the Odeon you got a good view of the old Blast Furnaces that use to turn Corby's night sky orange. It never got dark in the Corby of my childhood. The Candle and all the steel and tube mills lit ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1962 by Kenneth Little

I remember Garelochhead well. I lived in the village. We made big swings with rope over the trees at the back of my house in Dunivard Place - I nearly killed myself on them lol. We played rounders and used to knock ...Read more

A memory of Garelochhead in 1960 by Rosemary Dougan

I am posting this on behalf of Geoff Schofield: We lived on 9 Tintern Rd. Ann Mason also lived on Tintern Rd. I also ate at the same fish shop Barry Baker mentioned - apparently Thompson used to cook in coconut oil ... I went ...Read more

A memory of Middleton

I remember going to get groceries from a shop called Perks (think was the name). It had those green and white (or black) mosaic tiles on the walls. Old fashioned scales, and I always loved the SPAM they sold! I seem to remember one of the ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1950 by Polly Short

I was born in 298 Burnley Road East on August 18th 1945. The Nurse who delivered me was Nurse Bowe, who was a good friend of my Gran's (Teresa Whittaker, nee O'Brien). All my Aunties and Uncles were born ...Read more

A memory of Waterfoot by Judith Mc Creath

I lived at 24 Cross Street, Cambridge from the age of three till I got married in 1969. My mother was Pat and my father was Bill Turner. I attended Saint Barnabus Infant School, then Saint Paul's, and went on to ...Read more

A memory of Cambridge in 1958 by John Turner

Anyone remember the Academy on Regent Road? Many years of ballroom dancing on Friday and Saturday nights. Walking home down Regent Road towards Weaste, stopping at the Chip Shop on the way home, except if it was raining we rode ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1955 by Kathy Bland

Yes, I was there around 56/59 ish. My last name was COAD, boy how I hated that name. Most of my memories of this place WAS HELL. The guy running this place was called Padbury, he was a God fearing mother, oh how I ...Read more

A memory of Glenfield in 1957 by Mel Peat (Formally) Known As Coad

l have a postcard of this view which is dated Oct 11th 1904. ln which the sender write's about just moving into a house that is facing one of the houses on the left which had just been recently built and so ...Read more

A memory of Scunthorpe by Dean Balderston