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Walter Road
107 Walter Road,Swansea was the scene of many happy school holidays.It is still there, butis now a business address.
My Bampie and Nanny Price lived there, with Nan's mum Nanny Rees occupying the back downstairs room as a bedroom-come-sitting room,she had French doors out to the garden and the outside toilet.
Upstairs lived my Dad's sister and her husband and daughter, my Aunty Betty, Uncle Roy and Vicki. When we stayed we were delighted to be in the attic bedroom, we would call to the neighbour's children Lorraine and Angela from the open window and chatter from room to room.
Nanny Rees in her...
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A memory of Swansea in West Glamorgan by Wendy Price
First Record Player
Grey's Electrical Shop - That's where I bought my first Dansette Record Player in about 1959.
Radlett Park Estate Help
Hello, I am a Radlett Resident and I am desperate for any knowledge you may have of the Radlett Park Estate and its development in the early 1900s. Please call me as soon as you can - 01923 856754. Thanks. Nov/2009
A memory of Radlett in Hertfordshire by Gordon Parsons
Matchbox And Dinky Toys
I grew up at Barforth Hall and left when I was 18. I used to spend my pocket money on toy cars with Mrs Brown in this dark and evocative shop, the memory has never left me. I would also go to buy my parents' Christmas present here every year. My parents still have a cottage on the green and I remember Mr Cree, he was terrifying. Does the bus still have a number 75? I can even remeber our telephone number, Gainford 398!
A memory of Gainford in County Durham by John Reeves
St Luke's School
I went to St Luke's School from 1950 to 1959, my name is Lana Regan. If anyone was there then, I would love to hear from you.
A memory of Irlams O' Th' Height in Lancashire by Lana Regan
Where My Parents Met
My parents met at The Ship in Ospringe. My father, Alcwyn Davies, was in the 3rd Welsh Regiment and was stationed close by. My mother. Grace Glibbery, was with her family from East London picking hops, as they did every year. My grandparents were Liz and Jim Glibbery. Along with my aunt Rose Clark and her husband Joe with their 5 children. Also my great aunts and uncles, their children and grandchildren. They took up an entire row of huts at the farm. After they had met each other, my parents would meet behind this church, under the hemlock tree, at...
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My Journey Back To Leytonstone
My name was Mary Fanning and I lived in Leytonstone as a child from 1962 to 1973 - when my family moved back to live in Ireland. I have fantastic memories of Leytonstone and have only recently started to relive my memories by searching for all the familiar places and photographic memories I can find. I have not returned for many years - late 1970's. But hope to return in the New Year 2010.My everlasting memories of Bearmans was the visit to Santa and standing in a queue that seemed to last for hours at that age....
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A memory of Leytonstone in Greater London by Mary Mcgarry
Benjamin Siddle Rm
My great-grandfather served on this ship between 1875/1876 as a Royal Marine marksman, having joined the RM's at 13 years old in 1870. He also served on HMS's 'Agincourt', 'London', 'Simoom', 'Thetis', 'Lion' and finally 'Mercury'.
I have a very fine etching of HMS 'Agincourt', aground on the Pearl Rock, Gibralta and am hoping to locate prints/photos of his other ships noted above.
I served with the RN, from 1952, to 1961, with immense pride and pleasure as an L/SA (v).
Othery
I was born in North Lane on a farm in 1951 spent all of my childhood in Othery and left the village in 1974. I have got fond memories.
Summer Of 1990
I was lucky enough to go abroad for our family holiday every year. Towards the end of the 1980s my second holiday around August time would be to go to Treyarnon Bay with my best friend Becci and her parents, and I fell in love with the place and the surrounding areas. I'm sure the pub/hotel was named the Beachcomer back then.
The owners of Treyarnon Bay Hotel were Anne and Clive, along with Anne's brother Chris and his wife Lorraine. Becci and I begged them to let us come and work a summer season for them.
1990 soon came around. Me and...
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Admirals Walk's Legend
My mother lived in Admirals Walk during the Second World War. Her father was a Spanish official posted in London who hired the property to spare his family the bombing raids over the capital. The house belonged at that time to a British family whose members were serving in the army and could not live in Pirbright. Among the ancestors of that family there was an admiral who lost his life in the battle of Trafalgar and also a diplomat who participated in the famous conference of Algeciras in 1906 and served later in several posts in Europe. The name of...
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Chequers Lane
My late father, Verdun Frederick Davis, was born in the Chequers Lane Cottages, I think it was no 9, on the 29th Feb 1916, one of 10 children with only Amy still living. His father was a Thames Lighterman who was employed by Sammies, he was also a good Quoits player. My mother Marjory Davis, now 91, is still alive and living in sheltered accomodation in Dagenham. I myself was born in Dagenham in 1937 in Hardie Rd, when it backed onto massive corn fields and apart from 2 years National Service have always lived in Dagenham.
The Glanfield Hotel
My parents managed the Glanfield for Ind Coope & Allsop in the late 1940's and early 1950's and I went to a prep school called Aston House (long gone)
A memory of East Grinstead in West Sussex by David Randall
I Lived And Went To School In Clymping.
I lived and went to school in Clymping and I was choir boy at Clymping church. I went into the RAF. I worked on a farm at Clymping and most of the Hasted family also lived at Clymping. Then I married Pauline Hasted from Littlehamptosn and we have been married to each other for
A memory of Littlehampton in West Sussex by William Hasted
Like Coming Home
My memories of Silverdale are many and varied. The family homes of my parents Betty Bolton and Dennis Shorrocks were there and we would return once or twice a year.
I remember playing with cousins, in woods or lotts or on Castle Barrow (pepper pot) or in the attic in Grandad Bolton's on Cove Road.
But the thing that gets me, even now years on, is the drive from Warton to Silverdale. My heart lifts with joy, "I'm coming home."
A memory of Silverdale in Lancashire by Ian Shorrocks
