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Queuing up to go and see our films on a Saturday morning and singing the song about the abc minors. The words are as follows.We are the boys and girls well known as minors of the abc and every Saturday we ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by Kathleen White

I was born in Aston terrace 1954 I have 3 sisters 2 brothers I went to Swallownest junior school I remember Miss Shimeld was scared of her she was so strict, moved when I was 8 to Aston spring wood school a brand new school, ...Read more

A memory of Swallownest

We used to stay at the Atlantic in the 1960’s and I am now doing research into the history of Polzeath. The Terrace was built I believe in the 1898 and it was part of the Pentireglaze Estate which I think was owned by the ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath by William Bartlett

My granda was Arthur he owned a tailor/pawn shop in Frederick Street in South Shields - he once lived at 66 Hartington Terrace in South Shields - I used to be taken there every Sunday to visit - he died in 1959 My family tree has ...Read more

A memory of South Shields by Lesley Kay

My maternal grandmother, born in 1885 in Salford, as a girl worked in the mills. Up to the time of her death in Ladywell hospital, at the age of 93, she always wore long clothes to her ankles and a woollen, thick shawl. When gran ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Anne Whyte

i went to fallin primary school i was born in 1952 Capt Gracie was the headmaster at fallin school, i lived in the wooden house in Hilton Terrace number 19 , auld Hailey Mghee was our next door neighbours, my late dad ...Read more

A memory of Fallin by June Mc Allister

I was born at what was then no 5 Chain Terrace in 1935. My name then was Arthur O'Hara. My surname has since been changed to Harrow. The photo of Chain Terrace in this site shows the house that I was born in (I think), ...Read more

A memory of Creetown in 1940 by Arthur Harrow

My father Douglas Graham Lewis was born at 10 Norton Terrace Glyncorrwg in 1918 until he moved to Surrey in 1938 with his parents John & Mabel and brother Eli. As far as I know they lived  in the same house until they moved away. Would be nice if some one remembers the family.

A memory of Glyncorrwg in 1920 by David Lewis

A group of us children would often after church on a Sunday go for a walk home 'the long way'. Yes, walking then was just wonderful. Our trek often took us along the river to the farm, before ...Read more

A memory of Old Milton in 1930 by Phyllis Williams

Yes, I have been to Southport! Sadly I saw this lovely town once only when I went there to see Southport FC play at their home ground in Haig Avenue. The occasion was a Monday night in March 1969 and the ...Read more

A memory of Southport in 1969 by John Howard Norfolk