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My family lived in Orpington Kent from 1959 to 1964. I was 5 when we left. We lived in Repton Road. It snowed so heavily one year(62/3?) that a train was stuck at the top of the embankment above our ...Read more

A memory of Orpington in 1963 by Melanie Gregory

my grandparents lived in longriggend 97 i think great uncle alex and andrew lived in end cottage .next door was aunt janet with son alan and then granny jessie stevenson and grandpa david.we had 2 happy times ...Read more

A memory of Longriggend in 1961 by Elizabeth West

For me the memory of Carn Barges brings with it another story. That of the life of Derek and Jeannie Tangye. For a number of years they had been looking for their ideal escape from it all place to live. One day whilst on holiday in ...Read more

A memory of Carn Barges by linda

I lived just around the corner in County Road and was About 2 hundred yards away when the bomb dropped.I would take issue with the writer Mona Duggan in her excellent book in the Francis Frith history of Ormskirk when ...Read more

A memory of Ormskirk by John Parker

He was only a few weeks old when he came to us, my mother had got to know about him and thought he was just the thing I needed to cheer me up. I was fourteen years of age and had not long moved home; my parents had decided ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear

I was so pleased to see this photo in a Francis Frith book. The two ladies in the foreground are my Grandma and my Mother. Grandma was Mrs. Archie Turner (1892-1974) who lived in Whitford Road, Birkenhead. My Mother, Mrs. ...Read more

A memory of Parkgate by Margaret Halpin

there used to be i believe old house in Crickhowell it was refurbished to meeting place the men breakfast weekend was used and then ladies breakfast weekend was held there. it certainly was old house it still had bars on the ...Read more

A memory of Crickhowell

This August 2014, on my way back from Whitby, I took a detour and called at Reighton Gap. The last time I was there was in the late 1950s / early 60's when we stayed at the bungalow my grandmother owned on Boat Cliff Road. I seem ...Read more

A memory of Reighton by akaye73

grew up here and have just written a book 'Confessions of a Newsagents Son-Amblecote in the 50s. Available locally or Amazon.

A memory of Amblecote by James Morgan

I have many fond memories of my childhood in Bale. I lived in Fakenham and used to spend some time with Nan, Grandfather and Auntie Carole in Bale. I remember going up to what Grandfather called 'plantin', which was just next to the ...Read more

A memory of Bale