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I work in this area nowadays, the SLCS is still going strong but is now a small branch of SAINSBURYS. The flats and shops look in pretty good nick for their age, though round the back they look a little seedy! The flat with the space underneath it now has a fish and chip in the space!
I came to live in the Station House at Mardock in 1950 as my father, Alan Dinmore was the Station Master. I was 5 years old and went to Wareside School. The infants' teacher was Mrs Pottle, and later, I believe, Mrs Chalkley. The headteacher was Mrs Norah Kay. I remember a Christopher Bunce living just up the hill from the railway. The village Hall was the scene of such events as the School Play and various ...see more
I remember coming from school and running up to the hillside fields helping Wheightman to load the hay onto his tractors and building the haystacks on North Pasture, off down to the yard pond looking for frogs and newts with Eddie Brown, Barry Cummings, Killer Francis and a few others.
I remember jumping the steam trains from Houghton Pit down to the coke works, one or two lads lost a toe or two ...see more
We used to live on Grove Road in the 1960s and 1970s and, being a tomboy, I would also go exploring with our two dogs. One of my favourite walks was up Heber's Ghyll - sometimes following the path up through the woods but most often just walking "wild" through the woods. It was full of bluebells (still is) and the Ghyll (stream) is a delightful place to sit and look at. At the top of the path, ...see more
I too can recall summer days at the paddling pool, and a fair on the grass. Also I can recall the men of the Letchworth Rotary pulling the Kon-Tiki around the pool. I can also remember the fountain. It was always slippery and greasy. It has now been removed...but I hope to a museum as it was a true piece of Letchworth heritage.
At the bottom of Leys Avenue there was a shop across the ...see more
I left Boldon in 1954 aged 7 years but my memories of Boldon remain with me like the footings of my lifebuild, I am sure that life through rose-coloured glasses has had an effect.
Amongst the lads in Shelley Avenue I was probably the least agile so when it came to jumping diggers over the burn you can guess who got wet first (the winner being the last one not make the other bank), you all got ...see more
As I look at this picture of the Letchworth swimming pool and notice the date is c1950… it would be only a few years later (mid 60’s) that my friends and I would cycle there with our towels and trunks fastened to the backs of our bikes (no expensive designer sports bags for us!). We’d padlock/chain our bikes outside the pool and hope that the worst that could ...see more
I visited Rugeley only once, with a fellow solder named Jimmy Ball who lived on Cross Roads. That was in 1950. I lost touch with him, but have some great memories of my two-day visit to that lovely town with its fine people. Anyone know the Ball family, please? Thanks. Jac Mills.
Hi, does anyone remember the Trelawny stores in Pengelly? On my birth certiificate it has this as my mother's address at the time. Her name was Daisy Hart and my father was Clarence Edwin Thomas, he was a sawyer. Any info would be appreciated. Thank you.
Brought up in Thomas Street from 1947. I remember the cinema at the end of the street, and the Police Station next to the Llanbradach Hotel .As someone mentioned earlier, summer was spent at the outdoor baths, always freezing cold, next to the park. Days were spent out all day up the mountain nesting, making bows and arrows or camping, what great times, we didn't have much but there was always something to do. I ...see more
I lived in Minster Way from 1947-58 in one of the bungalows in this photo - but there were trees along the front of the house by this time. I remember milk being delivered by horse and cart - the milkman would go quickly up and down the front paths to put the milk bottles at the door and call out to the horse when he wanted it to move along. My father used to go out in the street with a shovel to pick up the droppings for our garden.
In 1945 there was still a lot of horse and carts about. I am aware that Doncaster Corporation had buses and dustbin lorries and other petrol driven vehicles but there was not many private cars about. The only one that I recall belonged to Dr Scott who used it when he was on his HOME visit rounds. It was a small open topped tourer with a canvas hood that could be pulled up and over, ...see more
I am a descendant of the above and wonder if anyone is a direct descendant, I am looking for information of son Alexander Paterson, I have never been able to find a death in Edinburgh Register House. Do you know what happened to him?
My family used to live in Celandine Close, number 20 from 1959 to 1964 where we moved to Carnach Green. I have two brothers, David and John Colley, the three of us went to Benyon School then on too Sommers Heath and Culverhouse. My memories of Celendine are very poor but I do remember my neighbour having geese, I never did know why. We went to Grays by train, green it was. We had sherbert from the little shop ...see more
I used to visit my Bailey family, they lived on the Pear Tree estate, I stayed with my nan and grandad Bailey in Great Haywood. The fish and chips from Lower Brook Street were the very best, the years between 1953-56.
The first Madeira memory etched in my brain is the landing at (the original) Funchal Airport. The pilot had to land, brake and bring the aircraft to a standstill within seconds. White knuckle stuff!! The second memory is arriving in the town of Funchal and seeing for the first time the bullock driven carriages transporting tourists (and probably locals ) around the city. The third memory ...see more
I was recalling just the other day about a Christmas many years ago when I was a very small child and as I was talking about it to my mum of 84 years, she exclaimed 'That was in Bearmans where you got the 'Pelham Puppet from'. For years and years I was in awe of a a childhood Christmas I once knew. I remember the fairy lights and just that smell of Christmas and how the wrapping paper used to smell. It ...see more
Born in 1945. Lived on Lime Street up to the 1950s then moved to Ginpit, went to St George's, and Tyldesley Secondary. I loved playing around those dimly lit streets, we were never bored, there was always something to do. Outside toilets with a candle and newspaper cuttings, no bathroom, but who complained - no one. I used to play on the coal rucks and would come home black as the ace of spades, you got a belt but ...see more
We were living in Barry Island in south Wales, I was getting ready to take the 11 plus, one day when I came home from school my dad was waiting to tell me that we were on the move to Devon. We had spent four years on the Nells Point navy station and it was time to move on. We arrived at Kingsbridge train station and a taxi was waiting for us and what a journey it was, all the way to Prawle Point signal ...see more
My grandfather James McCormack was brought up at this address and I am trying to find where exactly this is. He was a North Motherwell man; can anyone can point me in the right direction?
I think it might be Jerviston in Motherwell but not sure.
Around 1958-1959 I attended this school due to bad asthma. On the plus side, but probably due to the climate only, my asthma did seem to improve while at this school but otherwise it was one of the most unhappy stages of my life. I was not personally abused but twice saw terrible abuse of others: Frances and Bernadette (I forget their surnames). The former was savagely ...see more
I am pretty sure this must be along the Dorking Road looking up towards the Downs. It looks like it is on the left going up towards Polesdon Lacey? Can someone confirm I am right here? The buildings and stables are where the Carters eventually set up their stables. Not sure how early the Carter family were there. Maybe they even ran it back then as the hunt kennels. ...see more
I have been researching my family tree and it takes me to many villages around the area, Hallatrow, Kilnerston, Clutton, Paulton, Caulter. If anyone has any links I would appreciate the information. I have traced back to early 1800s but it may be that someone local with an interest in family histories has more information.
Thanks
Gill Edmunds
Hi. I remember living at the 'Shirley Homes' for children in Shirley in 1947, I believe it was run by the old LCC (London County Council) It was a wondeful place to live, the staff looked after us as if we were their own, I lived at the 'Willow Cottage' but although the 'Home had their own school I attended an outside one, We were taken on a fortnight's holiday to Walton-on-the-naze in Essex,a Camping holiday, it ...see more
This was my home from approximately 1962 to 1974. My parents ran the shop and the Post Office during this time. The days were very long as they ran the shop during the day and in the evenings they made deliveries to the local villagers. They opened every day of the week with half days on Wednesday and Sunday. The views from the back of the house looked over to the Hamble River and on a clear day you could see the Isle of Wight. It had a large garden.
Yes Thomas, we lived in the Magnolia Rest. We used to get a lot of the Bushy Park crowd in my parents' place, thought I would share the memory.
I used to live in the Magnolia as my mum and dad owned it. I have a lot of memories of living there.
In the 1950s and early 1960s my brother and I were fostered to a Miss Little and her sister at 8 Shalborne, there were several children living there and I have many fond memories of our stay. We used to sleep in a caravan in the meadow at the back of the house, water was drawn from the well in the garden, and most of our food was home grown, or "swapped" with other villagers. Mabel and Margeret ...see more
My frandfather, Ernest Thomas Sloane, was the Editor of the Shrewsberry Chronicle for many years. During this time he was approached by someone from the BBC who asked if he had a local story of interest. Grandad mentioned how a young gardener by the name of Percy Thrower whho had designed and made The Dingle the place of beauty it is today. As Ernest Sloane was unavailable on the day, my father, ...see more
I went to the school between 1965 -1968, the family then moved to Coventry. My name was Angela Holley and I would love to see any interior photos of the school. I do visit Farncombe a couple of times a year and take a walk down memory lane. As it is now a day centre I always wonder what it is like inside. Any photos would be lovely to see.
I remember Newbottle when there were four farms in the village, Hunters, Wheatmans, Coulsons, and Tindales. My grandparents Herbert and Rachael Flintoff worked for Hunters, many happy times were spent milking the cows, tattie picking, and snagging turnips.
I remember camping out on the swing banks, me, Eddie Brown, Barry Cummings, Bekkie and a few other lads, roaming the woods around the witch's ...see more
Brought up as a child in Kelloholm, lived in Burns Street, and although time has passed I still have memories that are dear to me. Who could forget Jenny Mulligan and Tib in the post office. I still may have relatives living there as my middle names are Hyslop Black, I believe there was a family of the Blacks living in Anderson Street who knew our family. My mother was Martha who had two sisters, Jean and ...see more
I moved from Houslow to Isleworth in about 1961. We lived off the Thornbury Road in Eversley Cresent. I used to play in Osterley Park and walk my dog there as a child. It's a beautiful park.
My elder sister Wendy and I both went to Spring Grove Central School, which with hindsight was a dreadful dump that did very little to educate us. We had a dwarfish, long haired, one-eyed, aging headmaster called Mr ...see more
My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at Hemsworth Colliery until his retirement. There are so many memories, I really don't know where to begin.
The police station was located just before reaching Cross Hills on the right hand ...see more
Hi Peter, if your dad was a bricklayer I believe I worked with him for Sergents of Bracknell. Let me know, I would love to talk to you about him.
Kindest regards,
Ron Ponsford.
I used to live in Niton Road, Richmond from 1946-67 until I married and moved to Kent. I joined the Girls Life Brigade when I was 5 years old and left when I was 12. In that time we used to practice our marching and drill on the Green on many weekends. Some people would sit down and watch us for around an hour or so and we gave them some entertainment I suppose. When we had our parades we ...see more
I used to live in Niton Road, Richmond and used to catch the bus at the top of the Gas Works bridge and get off at the Quadrant, from when I worked 1961-1967 until I married and moved to Kent late 1967. I worked at a couple of places in Richmond Town, the last being a baby shop, Selby's which was just around the corner from the Quadrant, walking past the big fruit and veg shop on the corner and ...see more
I was a World War II evacuee, and after a short "phony war" trip to Northampton, when the Blitz began I was sent to Llantrisant. I have nothing but warm memories of the town. I was thee years old and billeted with an appropriately named "Mrs Rock". After a short stay in Cross inn Road, I was billeted with a Mrs Adams. She lived on what was called Melbourne Lane, but is now called Tir Meibion Lane, ...see more
I have many memories of Richmond Park. Sometimes I would walk through Sheen Common to the end and walk through the gate near the old wooden hut and into Richmond Park. Other times we would travel by pushbike with my friends and ride around the huge park, looking for a nice patch to sit down and have a drink that we brought with us. When I travelled with my parents by car into the park, the deer would ...see more
I was born in Walton Hospital and lived in Vauxall. My dad came from Vauxall, my mother from Lattermer Street. My mother's name was Molden, she was from a very big family but try as I might I cannot find any trace of the Moldens in Liverpool. Any informatiom would be most welcome. We moved to Huyton when I was a baby. When we went back to visit our gran and aunties we used to play on the dock ...see more
Can anyone tell me where the Bali-Hi night club was, I thought it was above a dance hall which is now a Ice Rink in Streatham High Road, I use to enjoy going there in the 1960s, great fun.
In the 1930s I lived only a few hundred yards away from the bandstand in the park (in Rice Street) and walked there so many times. A band would often play on Sunday evenings.
I remember going drinking at the Bali-Hi night club, made many good friends. Can anyone please tell me if the club was above a dance hall, and is it now an Ice rink.
I moved away from Stockwell in 1969 and now live in East Sussex...I do miss the old days, we had such good fun.
Cheers
Tony Smith
Perhaps you would like to know more about Thomas Barwick. Sarah Goodborn was Thomas' s second wife and was possibly the sister of his first wife, Eliza Goodborn, who appears to have died in childbirth. He had three children with Eliza: John (1835), Helen (1839) and Thomas (1844, died in infancy). In 1851 Helen was a servant in a house at Northbourne. Thomas went to Tasmania in 1856; his parents had gone with his 4 ...see more
I was born in Saffron Walden 57 years ago. I was a Mulcahy and went to St Mary's in Castle Street. It was reading about the paddling pool that prompted me into writing. I remember playing at that pool, oh so many years ago. We had such fun there and we could play so happily with no fear of being taken off or hurt like today. I could roam Saffron Walden and did freely from the age of 7. I seemed ...see more
The pub has been here for almost a hundred years. The Save the Woodcock Action Group are campaigning hard to prevent this pub from being demolished and redeveloped. We want to revitalise the pub and make it a vibrant community facility again. Please support us. Contact "brendanorton47@btinternet.com" or "ronnie@pineacres.freeserve.co.uk" 25th November 2011
I took part in a simple survey of Restoration House in the early 1990s when the Local Authority were considering buying the property from the children's entertainer Rod Hull (of Emu fame). He had fallen into disastrous financial circumstances, partly through his labour of love in trying to restore Restoration House that arguably contributed to his untimely death. My abiding memory is of Miss ...see more
I have found something that relates to the marriage of my grandparents' wedding on 16th Oct 1900. On the botton it says West Marton so I assume that they were married there in St Peter's Church. I know they had the first 2 of their 10 children there before moving to Escrick near York. But I would love to know where they lived in West Marton. Their names were Francis Edward Digweed and Violet Richardson.
Does anyone know if there is an abundance of Hall family members in Earl Soham? My grandmother had 17 sons and two daughters so I'd expect there to be a few!
I went to Barny Lane during the war. There were brick air-raid shelters in the 'garden'. Mr Hibbert was the headmaster. Miss Banks was one of the teachers. There were no men on the staff [apart from Mr H.] as all the men had been called up. Does anyone else remember the 'good old days'?
I lived in Addlestone for almost twenty years and still have family there. My memories are St Paul's School - Infants through to Secondary Modern; the Red Room, which was definitely haunted, according to my school friends; the youth club in the grounds of the infants school where I saw the Nashville Teens play; a kids club of some sort in Church Road; adolescent love for Lawrence Lord who went to Ottershaw ...see more
Happy holidays. My aunt Bella stayed in the first house in New Byth and my uncle in the last house. My dad was raised and brought up here and my grannie never left the village. She fostered and adopted a number of children.
Every summer holidays my brother and I came with our mum and dad and it was so carefree.
My mum died last year, and in her possessions was an old record of my grannie being interviewed ...see more
Hi, please accept my apologies, I've had problems with my email. I have lost your phone number so can you give me a ring? 07853393446.
Cheers,
Phil Jones
I lived in number 9 Tunnel Road which is still there today. It's the road running from the side of the flyover at the bottom of Chester Street to access the tunnel. Me and my brother and sisters played every day on the top (as we called it), this is where the gardens were situated right at the mouth of the tunnel. We would use white pavement chalk to draw a house on the ground and pick sods from the grass ...see more
Hi,
My family the Burgins lived in Thornley when I was younger and a lot of them still live there now. We lived in Hartlepool Street in an old public house. We used to go down to Fleming's shop for the penny lollies. Our house backed onto the old pit and we used to walk along the lines with my grandad Charlie. My nanna and granda lived in Galt Street and I was always down there playing in Garden Terrace with my friend ...see more
My ancestor William Bagshaw born 1742 was the Parish Clerk at Kniveton for 30 years. The family lived at The Breck and were farmers, corn dealers and shopkeepers in Kniveton. I would love to hear from anyone who has ancestors around that time and anyone who may have photo's of The Breck or the local shop. The family also lived at Ridding Park Farm, Kniveton and one of the daughters married a Matthew Beeson.
Sometime in the late 1940s my family moved from Upper Cwmtwrch to the Gurnos Council Estate in Lower Cwmtwrch and lived there for the next nine years. I have many memories of the place.
The main source of entertainment was the cinema. On Saturday morning I would get on the bus to Cwmllynfell to attend the cinema in the Workingmen's Hall situated on the Square. Most of them were ...see more
We moved to Yew Tree Cottage, out on the Forest, in December 1940, when I was 20 months old, and my father finally sold up in the early 1980s.
I loved the Forest, and was allowed to roam free from an early age. I have many memories of the wide open spaces [yes, they were then, when the smallholders cut and gathered the vegetation for their animals' food and betting, and cut birch for ...see more
I have a photo taken in 1959 of my mother outside the boarded up cottage in Mill Street where she was born in 1920. My Grandparents moved there around 1918 from Pontypridd. I can remember that it was down by the river and looking back up towards the bridge which must of been the old one as visiting there a few years ago all I could see looking over the new one was a few stones. I presume that was the remains of the houses that were down the original lane.
1970s, I see Steve Boughey like a dolphin in the water, Mr Bickley telling you off for bombing, Mrs Holland taking my basket of clothes off me. Girls from school looking great. Big football match on the grass area. My girlfriend meeting me there, to see the DRIFTERS, now my wife. Passing your season ticket through the fence to get your mates in. I was the one outside waiting for somebody's season ...see more
Money was scarce and every day I would go to the Ship Inn at Ospringe to do Mrs. Lightfoot's shopping, she would pay me sixpence a week.
Kath would shop for Mrs. Potter the school teacher on a Saturday.
I would go to help Aunt Jessie for two shillings and sixpence a day.
We were only twelve years old and we thought it was a lot of money, 2/6p would buy Mum a bag of coal.
(My mother and twin Kath, memories 1925 ethel gamble/taylor/packman)
I can remember Sam the blacksmith. I would stand and watch him at work in the forge. He had lost an arm (presumably in the war) and he had different attachment false arms which he would change to provide the tool he required. I would watch him work and clearly remember thinking how clever this man was doing what he did with only one arm. We lived in the white thatched cottage opposite. My dad (Bill Smith) ...see more
During my chidhood I was to perform lots of different tasks that would make life for my mother a little easier. I did not know it at the time but she was actually training me for my working life. Not only did I run errands, help turn the handle of the mangle on wash day, chop sticks for the fire, fill the coal bucket and fetch and carry whatever was required, I also bred rabbits for ...see more
My dad was born on Broad Street in Todmorden in 1913. I visited there from Canada in 1983 and again in 1999 to see the house and as of that time, it was still standing. I would have loved to have seen the inside, but didn't have the nerve to knock on the door. The whole family left in 1923 for Canada. Sharon
I found out that my great great grandparents (Elizabeth and Henry Ablett) and family lived at 11 Victoria Terrace, Hemingford Grey duriing the 1851 census. His occupation was a shoemaker. We visited there from Canada in May of this year and the house is still standing. It was so strange to think that my ancestors lived in this little house 260 years ago! I looked around the back of the row houses and saw ...see more
I have some very fond memories of Montacute when my sister and I were sent to stay with some very distant relatives during the war. We were living in Kent at the time and my mother was very worried for our safety when the blitz of London started and we were sent down to Montacute and stayed with 'Aunt Em' and 'Uncle Will', no other details known but their house overlooked a farm which I seem to remember being ...see more
As a child I must have attended many brthday parties for my young friends but in November 2011 I was invited to celebrate the 80th birthday of a friend! My friend Mike (known as "Lank" - he is quite tall!) Broughton lives in nearby Sundon Park and he and his wife Mary hosted a party to celebrate his great age! He is an accomplished musician for Morris Dancers and I ...see more
My parents were married at Stranton, and I was baptised there. We lived in a neighbouring street, Bower Street, in what would now be regarded as a slum property, with outside toilet and a single tap that was also outside. My lifelong hobby, ringing church bells, also began here. The vicar at the time was Canon Hancock, who later became vicar of Sedgefield, and whose son John also became a vicar in the diocese. The ...see more
I was born in the town,and spent my first ten years in what would now be regarded as the slums of Stranton, Bower Street, going to school at Oxford Street juniors. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Bower Street and neighouring streets were demolished, and its inhabitants moved to the new council estate at Owton Manor, to the west of Catcote Road. I walked to school daily along Catcote Road. I remember the ...see more
In 1958 I was a bricklayer working for Sargents of Bracknell, we were putting bathrooms on staff houses at The Terrace at Broadmoor. We could not work because of bad weather and I saw the Broadmoor staff going to work all wrapped in warm clothes so I went over and applied for a job. The man on the gate said "Can you fight?". I said I could hold my own. I got the job. I did 3 years as a pupil nurse then became a ...see more
I was born in 1926 at no 2 The Terrace. My dad was Taity Ponsford and I had 5 brothers and 2 sisters my sister Ida and Cis, who was killed in a motor cycle accident in 1933, at the time she was with Bill Murrant a local golf pro. My gran also lived on The Terrace, her husband was Shovel Stevens which I don't understand as my mother's maiden name was Platt. I moved away when I was 5 as Mum ran off with the ...see more
All the Mowtown and Reggae groups in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
I was brought up the other side of the arch from this picture in Wesleyan Row. (No8)
My mother still lives there today. I remember when this was the main road from the Steelworks and all the heavy lorries used to struggle up the hill. It was a bit of a risky business cutting through the arch on foot, as you had to look for a gap in the traffic and dash through, hoping you didnt get hit! In the 1970s they built ...see more
While in pursuit of wildfowl on Frampton Marsh In the winter of 1954-1955, a friend and I were out in a terrible snow storm, and it came real dark all at once, in fact it was jet black, just like in a dark cupboard. This was on the edge of the River Welland. Then all at once a ghostly figure stood by me, my friend was glowing like a luminous watch, and so was I. We stood laughing at each other, touching each ...see more
I googled Grove Road where I grew up at my nan's though we used to live in Penfold Court for a while, oh my, how this has changed. The properties in Grove Road look nothing like they used to look, and now there is a monstrosity of a station at East Fields where in the middle 1960s three years after leaving school I was the Crossing Keeper, and the land was just railway property with an old shed, but it was so clean, what's happened to Mitcham! It is changed that much!
I would like to thank those who have responded to this and I have equally replied. Sutton has fond memories. The girl I married is still my partner and we often speak fondly of Sutton and what it used to be like. We are very interested in hearing the stories of what it is like now. Is the tree still outside what used to be called 'Trueforms shoe shop'? Do they still have the little market in West Street? Can you drive up ...see more
What else has changed about Tooting? I'd be very interested to hear.
I was at Wath Grammar School from 1952 until 1959. I have lots of lovely memories of my time there. In particular my teachers and school friends. I loved Barbara Swan - Geography teacher, Hetty Clewes (nee Upton) - history, and Eleanor Shawcross - girls PE. And pupils - Dave Short, Roy Carr, and Gary Bell.
When I left, I worked at Cortonwood Colliery and Elsecar Works for 5 years, then Park Gate Iron ...see more
Goodness, I used to climb those frames above the walkway!
My sister and I lived for a short while at a place called Portrac Camp between 1949-1953/54. We think we were living with our father, Richard Denis Stephenson and our mother Winifred, (formerly Mansell) (both deseased in 1970s). We never knew them as we were placed after this at St Joseph's Orphanage, Carmel Road, Darlington. Does anyone have any photos of Portrac Camp or any idea what it was. I've ...see more