West Ham, Richmond Road c.1890
Photo ref:
L130291
Photo ref:
L130291
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A Selection of Memories from West Ham
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from West Ham
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Pretoria road school 1954/1958
I lived at number 38 , approx from 1949 to 1956/7 don't know if they still there, I remember the joys and the cannings , I went to Gainsborough infants then Pretoria road school, my friend lived near the memorial fields we both moved to Dagenham after that
I was born in Queen Mary's Hospital in 1936. My parents lived in Glenavon Road. My sister was 3 years older than me and attended primary school in Water Lane in 1938/9/40. I can remember going shopping in Boardman's with my mother and playing out in the road with lots of other children. I was arrested one day and taken to Stratford Police Station for pedalling my car up the Romford Road towards the Broadway. (i ...see more
One of my cousins (now deceased) remembered a home somewhere near to the junction of Glenavon and Romford roads. She thought it had a large sign saying "Leytonstone Home for Waifs and Strays", but her memory was sometimes doubtful! On http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/list/MH5.shtml there was a home on the corner of Glenavon Road named The Association of Friendless Girls' Refuge and as her memories would have been from around 1936 perhaps it was renamed later.
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