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When my family moved here I was only 7 and there was only a cottage on the left at bottom of Brae and a row of four terraced houses on the left, they were holiday homes for my grandmother and her sisters. We lived there with ...Read more

A memory of Mid Calder by Doreen Knox

I used to live in West Thurrock and go to Aveley School after West Thurrock Infants, I was in Thurrock for many years. What I want to know is can anyone remember what we used to call 'bug alley', most of my play days was ...Read more

A memory of West Thurrock by Audrey Bates

Joe and Elsie Boyd had a house built in California, which is a road in Winlaton. At that time California was a mud track and it never did become California Road or Lane ...Read more

A memory of Blaydon in 1930

Hi all, I'm doing an oral history project about local industries. I would really like to get in touch with people who worked in Woolwich Market or the Co-op stores. Any ideas much ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich

I lived in Hampstead from 1937-1941. Just before the war started my cousins and I used to play for many hours on Hampstead Heath One of our favourite spots was the Viaduct and Pond. We were very wary of entering the arch on the far ...Read more

A memory of Hampstead by Don Hudson

Dewhurst Butchers By Donald Jay. I started Butchering at the age of 12 in a local butcher on Colne road in Burnley called Harrison Brothers. When I left school at 14 I went to work at J H Dewhursts in Scotland Road Nelson. I ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Donald Jay

I worked at the Derwent hotel in 1973 & 1974. I came from Sheffield with a friend to work the season but ended up working 2 seasons. It was then owned by Mr Morel & the manager was Mr Sorrentino. It was a great hotel to ...Read more

A memory of Torquay by Val Enjuanes

Does anyone have any information about the Derby Home Guard 102 stationed at Markeaton Park during the latter part of WW2? I understand the Army used most of the buildings in the area, ...Read more

A memory of Mackworth in 1944

About a mile or so from South Woodford toward Buckhurst Hill, on the New Road, is Woodford Wells. My friend lived in the third house from the corner diagonally across from Bancrofts School. The ...Read more

A memory of South Woodford in 1942 by Denman Lalonde

This Country Park is signposted just off the Penn Inn roundabout, and my family had a lovely outing there on a hot Spring Day. I have to guess that the photograph illustrated here is the site, because I ...Read more

A memory of Newton Abbot in 2012 by John Howard Norfolk