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My mother was a land girl, she worked daily on Farmer Broomfield's farm Some of my earliest memories are of playing with other kids around an old black caravan, more a hut on wheels, provided as a shelter from the weather. Piles ...Read more

A memory of Mile Oak in 1947 by Bonny Cother

Way back in my childhood, brothers two and then plus me, Mom and Dad said let us pack our bags, and go down to the sea, Down to the railway station, our entourage did go, Comic books within our hands, cause, four hours, they went so ...Read more

A memory of Barmouth in 1940 by Mary Miles Geary

The small sandy beach at Newhaven was known as the horse shoe bite. It was completely covered at high tide, but as the water receded, it exposed fine golden sand, ideal for making castles and getting in your sandwiches. A row ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1960 by Kathy Farmer C/O Terry Roberts Roberts Flooring Contractors Ltd

Some time ago I read with great interest in a local paper that the pool at Arley had been restored.   My formative years were happily spent at Green Lodge on the green were I was born in 1932.  My father lived there for ...Read more

A memory of Arley by Peter Astles

I was in REME stationed in Peel Green and on Wednesday afternoons we were taken to see different factories etc, and one Wednesday we toured by boat all around the docks at Manchester and the commentator told us ...Read more

A memory of Manchester Ship Canal in 1948 by Trevor Williams

My grandfather (William Bryant) built a houseboat and moored it in Percuil Creek where he, my grandmother and my mother would spend their summers in the 40s. My grandfather and his wife Dorothy were both born in Falmouth ...Read more

A memory of Percuil in 1946 by Elizabeth Seward (Bryant)

Hi All. Den from St. Helens. Summer in Anglesey, first car, first boat, first meetings with young ladies of Llangefni. It could have been 1969, I'm not sure now, a group of mates from St Helens set out on ...Read more

A memory of Red Wharf Bay in 1970 by Denis A. Mee

Born & bred 'Tarpotion'. The shops? The best I can remember, starting (1) Junc/Rushbottom Lane/London Rd - NAT, parcels & goods service (later Essex Carriers, Atlas Express), now the bank, cycle shop. (2) - Pie ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1950 by Horace Rogers

I WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP TO THE AGE OF 12 IN ERBISTOCK AND I LOVED IT.  THE BOAT INN WAS RUN BY THE WILLIAMS'S.   I PLAYED WITH CAROL AND TIMOTHY IN ALL THE OUTBUILDINGS.  I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL IN THE CHURCH AND THERE WAS A LADY ...Read more

A memory of Erbistock in 1959 by Barbara Parry

When I was young we lived a short distance from here. A Sunday afternoon walk usually involved "going top see the boats"

A memory of Poulton-Le-Fylde in 1940 by Alan Fryer