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I lived in Bredbury from 1958 to 1979 and went to Barrack hill school. then went on to High field we used walk pass the slater house on bents lane. Mum and dad always went in to the club next door as my dad was one of the singers there.

A memory of Bredbury in 1969 by Karen Whittaker

The building with the turret is Acton Lodge where my grandparents Drs John and Mary Leedham-Green lived from 1946 until the late 1980s. The two cottages to the right had been demolished when my mother first visited (in the 1960s - she ...Read more

A memory of Southwold in 1946 by Kay Leedham Green

He was only a few weeks old when he came to us, my mother had got to know about him and thought he was just the thing I needed to cheer me up. I was fourteen years of age and had not long moved home; my parents had decided to ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear

In 1955, several Air Force families stationed variously at Alconbury and Molesworth Air Force Bases in England found themselves renting flats (apts) in a Jacobean Manor House in the English Countryside. The landlady, ...Read more

A memory of Wadenhoe in 1955 by Perle Champion

Bentalls was a big shop, especially if like me you'd grown up in small villages & army bases. I can remember seeing a bespoke luxury car being parked between the escalators. Not having a TV at my aunts house in Raynes ...Read more

A memory of Kingston Upon Thames by bru.enzer

Throughout the first half of the 1950's I would spend every school holiday at Linton, with my maternal grandparents. Initially my mum would accompany me from our home in Trumpington to Drummer Street bus station, where ...Read more

A memory of Linton in 1952 by Brian Goodliffe

After Townsend's chemist shop was Hudderstone's which was a family business and Mrs Hudderstone pleasantly sold sweets, lemonades, ice cream and newspapers in the front of the shop and Mr Hudderstone undertook ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

I first started school in Abertysswg primary at the age of 5 .I enjoyed my first day at school and meeting all the children on my first day.The school held great memories for me right up until I left at the age of ...Read more

A memory of Abertysswg in 1985 by Kathryn Wise

I was born in 1958 in the Perivale Maternity hospital off the Western Avenue. I lived for my first few years in Goring Way and then Queens Avenue until leaving the area in 1973. Memories etched on my mind: ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Ian Buck

what can i say that has not already been said about that place,i was there from 1963 till 1968 in softly house.i cant think of a single day i was happy there,the staff were absolute monsters,and the biggest monster of all was the ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope by bobwalker95