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I remember the cafe in the market square, my mum use to work in the open top part in the summer and my brother and I used to go and help her clear the tables when we were on school holidays. I remember the shops that ran around ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1960 by Pauline Wallis

I lived in 71 Hailsham Road off of Straight Road till we sadly moved in the April of 1971. I always remember; the Grammar School, at the back of Appleby Drive we used to have Saturday fetes with the small steam train ride, ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1967 by Mark Tate

I knew Mike. I used to go round his house and he would give me health foods and tell me how to stay healthy. I think he lived in Greenstead Road. He was a very nice man, very quiet but friendly. When he told me he was a barber I ...Read more

A memory of Loughton in 1963 by Alan Payne

i lived at 51 wednesfield road oppisite the poplar public house. Ican remember fosters shop i also used to walk up sun street to corn hill were there was a small shop before the wheel public house we bought fish chips ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town in 1960 by Kevin Kavanagh

I remember the donkey wood, the pit ponies that used to roam in the wood. The old picture house now has the lop house at the time at the bottom of the pit bank. Also the hills and the holes where we used to play as kids. Back to ...Read more

A memory of Spennymoor in 1961 by Lawrence Sewell

Who remembers the travelling fun fair that came to Blackfield in the 1960s? Did you go to Blackfield Junior school? What about skating on the frozen Gravel pits at Holbury in the winter 1962/3/4 or the Esso Cinema? or the ...Read more

A memory of Holbury in 1960 by Julian Bishop

These were my local shops. We used to live in the flats adjacent to these shops called 'Morden House', then there was the 'White Bridge' which went over the railway lines to the underground sheds. The first shop on the corner I remember ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1962 by Tony Rivers

I spent a year living in the Abbey House from Sept 1967 to July 1968 with my dad, mum, and younger sister. My grandfather, Hugh Leir, owned the house and lived in the older/original part of it for that year too. I was 11 years ...Read more

A memory of Ditcheat in 1967 by Brian Salter

We lived on Fishers Lane, Pensby then moved to Barleyfield Road where my little sister was born in the front bedroom of no 1. We walked down to Greenbank Junior School every day, three little kids holding hands through fields of barley ...Read more

A memory of Pensby in 1967 by Debbie Ranson

I was born at No. 3 Church Street in 1950. There are so many good times to recall. Where to begin? It is difficult to place them in any sort of logical order. I just guessed the year of ...Read more

A memory of Moulton in 1961