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I can remember so many old shops in Salfords. My favourite must be the newsagent which sold sweets and bottles of pop by the door. It also sold some toys and cards. The greengrocer's had a lovely old silver till which I can just ...Read more

A memory of Salfords in 1970 by Angela Middleton

We lived in Salfords from about 1948-1952, at the top of Honeycrock lane. Yes Angela, you did pay in the cubicle in the butcher's and the baker's shop was Cakebread's - very appropriate. I went to the old school, ...Read more

A memory of Salfords in 1948 by John Lund

I have such fond memories of staying with my grandparents at Bedonwell Road during the 1960s. I remember walking with my Nana to Long Lane and being allowed to choose sweets from the shop and then getting the bus ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1965 by Jane Cresdee

I was a summer season driver of these boats during my college holidays in the early 1960s. We operated four boats, Silver Foam, Silver Stream, Silver Crest and my own boat, Silver Dawn, which I believe came from the Norfolk Broads. The ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1960 by Edward Donnelly

SOME OF MY ANCESTORS LIVED AT 9 SILVER ST JUST OVER THE BRIDGE FROM FRAMWELLGATE JAMES ROBERT THURLOW WAS A LEATHER CUTTER AND CURRIER BUT LATER BECAME THE OWNER OF THE WEAR BREWERY AT FRAMWELLGATE WATERSIDE

A memory of Durham by Isabella Adams

Walking up Vennel Street, Dalry one afternoon I was approached by a pal's dad, Jimmy Morrison. Jimmy, I'd heard, was putting a junior football team together. He crossed the road towards me and said: "Fancy joining my team? We're applying to ...Read more

A memory of Dalry in 1966 by Norman Hunter

1975-1984 lived at 24 Vulcan Close remember the blue van and the football cards with the bubble gum very well! The 233 bus, swimming and Wilson's, knock down ginger, roller disco skates on the decks, moppit, the milk round with Brian, ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1975 by Roy Styles

I was born in 1938 in a cottage on theRroseneath Castle estate where my father was a gardner at the castle, £2 a week free house and a ton of coal a year. The boat came in at high tide offloaded 60 ton coal and provisions all removed by ...Read more

A memory of Ardpeaton

I lived in the Rose and Crown for years with my parents Fred and Shelia Dunbar .. Many happy memories indeed in the village ... I have fond memory of people and business in the village I have been up there ...Read more

A memory of Highgate by delia.newman52

The bottom of Silver Street on the other side of the bridge ended at the river with some railings over a drainage outlet.  This was a good place for children to get into the river from the middle of the village and paddle upstream under ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1962