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We moved to Dodleston in 1975 and left sadly in 1998. They were the happiest years. My children went to the villiage school and there were just 12 children then. The community feeling was great and the Whelmar estate hadn't ...Read more

A memory of Dodleston in 1976 by Linda Dyer

I started work at 15 when I worked at the quilt factory, I later went to work at Tizer pop factory. I had smashing mates there my own age but we all got on with the older women as well. Friday night was the best night of the ...Read more

A memory of Byker by D Olly

We had some great times in the summer hollidays. A crowd of us would get on our bikes go along to the Strand and then along the sea wall to sharps Green. We passed a boat yard, but I don't remember the name. We were gone all day. ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1958 by Dorothy Sharp

Growing up in South Harrow was much different than today;  I do go back from time to time.  Welldon Park was on the Wyenhoe site, although there was always talk of the infant school being built on the allotments. I ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1960 by Doreen Stockton

Having been so lucky as to spend my childhood in a big house in Royal Avenue and spending many long summer evenings playing cricket on the beach with my grandad I have always wanted to return to Scarborough.  In particular the Zoo ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough in 1969 by Carol Best

I was evacuated in 1939 to Devoran, and was billeted with a family by the name of Eddy, my three sisters and myself. We were only there for about two months before we were all taken down with scabies, we all went off tp Perranporth ...Read more

A memory of Devoran in 1940 by George Burton

My father Frederick George Standing grew up at Colhook Common, Ebernoe. His schooling was done at Ebernoe School, which was next to the church. The school is now a private house. He married Mary Grace Cooper at Ebernoe church. ...Read more

A memory of Ebernoe in 1957 by Eileen Crowhurst

Shovelled off to Boarding School, aged 7 (just), small boy, shorts, huge trunk, sandwiches and standing on the platform in London shivering and not just from the cold. School train huffing and puffing heading for ...Read more

A memory of Tawstock in 1960 by James Burgess

My house backed onto Wyndham Hill and I spent my childhood playing over there. My cousin and I loved to watch the steam trains passing by and sometimes (if our parents weren't nearby) would run onto the bridge at Pen Mill ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1966 by Kim Cavanagh

My name is Jean WHILEY, previously Clark, I lived in Cherwell Grove on the Belhus Estate with my 2 brothers, Jim and Dave and my Mum and Dad. I went to the Huts school for a short time before going to Somers Heath and then ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by jean.whiley