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Born in 1947 my family lived in Gin Pit at No 2 Lord Street. In those days there were huge slag heaps just over a stream at the bottom of the village and a pond at the bottom of Lord Street. We used to skate on it in the ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley by Richard Carter

I lived in Foxlands Road in the 50's as a 6 year old, I remember cycling to large deep pits at the back of my grandparents house in Gay Gardens, I think that the area is now is parkland, and perhaps the deep holes were gravel ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Peter Reynolds

I was born in 42 Lindsworth Road in 1960, our house backed onto a cricket pitch which was owned by a local resident who kept it beautifully maintained and at the end of the cricket pitch was the canal or the 'cut' ...Read more

A memory of King's Norton by Karen Dixon

I was born in Cilfyfnydd in 1948, I lived in a house with my aunt, cousin, grand parents and my parents. I went to school in Ann Street and had other relations in the street. My dado and uncles worked in the pit and one ...Read more

A memory of Cilfynydd by Angela Cook

SUMMER HOLIDAYS IN THE WAR I have just spent a very pleasant time looking though some photos on FLICKR, my! It did bring back memories, Alnemouth in the war time Dad used to run 16MM mobile cinema in the church hall and I saw ...Read more

A memory of Alnmouth by David Hinge

Not many people have heard of Glascote, it's not even on the map. A lot of people get it confused with another area called Glascote Heath, but they are not the same at all. I have lived in Glascote all my life. At one time it was a ...Read more

A memory of Glascote by Jackie Newman

My grandfather moved to Easington and worked at the pit for two spells. He married a girl from the village and they had 7 children. The family moved to the Midlands in the 1930s. One uncle returned after the war and ran ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery by Vivien Williamson

I lived on Hesleyside Road, Wellfield in the late 1950s/early 1960s and as a boy knew all the local fields and highways and by-ways. Although I left the area some years later as I entered my teens I never really lost touch ...Read more

A memory of Earsdon by Neil Johnson

I remember going down the field when there was swings, a roundabout and a slide just by the little woods and further up the pit heaps were the so-called big woods. We used to all go up to the little woods and play foxes ...Read more

A memory of Tindale Crescent by Stephen Metcalfe

My wife Mary Ross was born and bred in Milton of Balgonie. We got married in July 1970. It has allways been a very freindly place and still is, even with a lot of outsiders livving here. I came from West Lothian in the ...Read more

A memory of Milton of Balgonie by Daniel French