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I would like to share with you some of my early childhood memories of my formative years in Parndon, including places and names that might evoke similar memories to myself. I hope you will bear with me, as I will probably go ...Read more

A memory of Great Parndon in 1955 by John Conyard

Before the houses were built, I remember this area as an open field with blackberry bushes.

A memory of Broxbourne in 1955 by Geoff Green

My memory of Budleigh Salterton is spending a couple of months or so at a childrens convalescent home in the spring/early summer of 1955. I revisited the town a few years back to find that the old childrens home ...Read more

A memory of Budleigh Salterton in 1955 by Laurie Hornsby

I started at St Peter's in South Weald at the age of four in 1955. This was in the old school which is no longer there. Our teacher was Mrs Fox and we were taught to write on slates. When we became proficient we were ...Read more

A memory of South Weald in 1955 by Marilyn Lewis

This was the year I was born, as everyone was in those days, in Tredegar. I came home with my mum and dad to our house in Commercial Buildings. Both my mum and dad were from the village where my paternal grandfather had once owned ...Read more

A memory of Oakdale in 1956 by Lynne Woodley

Did you attend Bush House Open Air School? My name is Rita Pilbrow (with one more surname on the end which was added a lot later). I was at Bush House Open Air School around 1953 when I was 7 years of ...Read more

A memory of Isleworth in 1956 by Rita Faith Pilbrow Carlson

My family moved to the post office in Mytchett Road in 1956 when I was six. I used to catch the bus at the bus stop opposite to go to Ash Vale Primary School. Yes, on my own, clutching my penny ha'penny bus fare and reciting in ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett in 1956 by Faith Moulin

Saw your Memory with interest. I have done two others on the site - people will think "He's vain", but hardly anyone else seems to have bothered. I can remember the smell of hops drying here in the 1950/60s. I was born in ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1956 by Rodney Warrener

Living in Bearwood (posh end of Smethwick) I pushed my bike then Lambreta Scooter up and down the Hagley Road between 1956-62 as I served out my engineering apprenticeship at Bellis & Morcom, Ledsam Street, Edgbaston.  Good ...Read more

A memory of Edgbaston in 1956 by Terry King

My aunt and uncle used to own a large old house in Mytchett Rd. It had a long driveway leading down to an orchard and fields, where my cousins and I would spend many happy hours. In one field was a large pond with a willow tree on the ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett in 1957 by Julia Clarke