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I think that you are referring to Mrs Glazier. Sr Kilgallen managed CC3 and watched the staff like a hawk. I was feeding a resident one day and she tore across the day-room.."Wat daya tink your doin..we're troin ta teach these ...Read more

A memory of West Malling by David Dickinson

Now here's a place with some very happy memories. Beyond the field with the cows in was the BICC cricket ground (factory chimney in the background) - if you look closely the white building to the right of the ...Read more

A memory of Helsby in 1965 by Ian Champion

Does anyone remember the Headmaster, Mr Adams, the Headmistress, Miss Hollows, Mrs Dickson and Mrs Ireland putting a tin and milk bottle along I think, with items of the day ...Read more

A memory of Staining in 1959 by Ian Croft

Moved into Long Riding in Jan 1957. I was 15 months old. I lived the other end, in the town houses.

A memory of Basildon by Loraine Tooley

As children, my two brothers and I would go to visit Nannan (my paternal grandmother) at Wells Bottom Farm, near Sowerby Bridge, Ripponden. We would stop at the Blue Bell Inn for a drink of pop, the highlight of the long car ...Read more

A memory of Ripponden in 1960 by Angela Garcia

I was born at Low Westwood, a small mining village in the North East of England in 1955 – well, when I say I was born there, that’s not entirely true. Unlike today, children were born at ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1960 by Kathy Aveyard

I remember staying with my grandmother Annie Rowlands during World War 2 in the village of Stoke Works on Harbors Hill Farm. There was a neighbouring farm there and I remember a John Ford. My grandmother took me on ...Read more

A memory of Bromsgrove in 1947 by June Manson

I lived over the toyshop in Coldharbour Lane from 1942 to 1954. I went to Townfield Infant School and then to the Juniors, but passed the 11+ and went on to Ealing County Grammar School in 1948. Our toilets were open to the sky ...Read more

A memory of Hayes by David Woolf

I was born in Holbrook in 1942 and lived there until 1973 when I married and moved to Loughborough. I continued to vist my parents and family in Holbrook weekly. Last year I moved to Oregon USA, to be near my son and his wife, ...Read more

A memory of Holbrook in 1945 by Iris Bland

Memories..... of being a student nurse Sept 61-63. The nurses home. The long corridor. The beds on wheels. The white starched collar cutting into my neck. Sister Piper. Sister Rowlands. The Saturday evening dances ...Read more

A memory of Oswestry in 1962 by Ann Corbett