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Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

We lived in Coney Hall and tended to shop in Bromley. As such, believe it or not, a trip to Croydon was a real treat. Kennards, Alders, the market .. what excitement. To cap it all I might catch sight of a trolleybus (654,630 I ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Peter Leach

I will be 72 years old this year of 2015. I remember working with my uncle Syd and Auntie Chris Ryder at Bromley Hall Corn Merchants at the Godstone Road end of Timber Hill on the site which later ...Read more

A memory of Caterham by Roger Ryder

I was born on 23rd. September 1928 son of John and Frances May Hind; we lived in Hall Road Bungalows until 1935 when we moved to Joseph Terrace. I attended the Infant and Junior schools-headmaster ...Read more

A memory of Chopwell by dhind675

The picture of Windsor Drive is so evocative for me. I spent the first 5 years of my life living with my parents in my grandmother's council house in Sandpit Road on the Downham Estate at the bottom of ...Read more

A memory of Chelsfield in 1953 by Kevin Barham

I was brought up in Pode Hole from 1967, my mother Joan is still alive but now living in Spalding, sadly my Dad Ken died in the Fishermans Arms pub on Sept 23 1977. I have a brother Nigel and a sister Susan. We lived ...Read more

A memory of Pode Hole in 1967 by Stephen Cropley

I have just gone onto this site. I remember the Goliahs. It was when I was a little girl, Mr Goliah used to regularly visit my dad and I think at one stage he dropped off a load of cattle manure with a ...Read more

A memory of Shifnal by Jane Keef

Such a familiar sight - the High Street with what looks like a number 47 RT AEC bus approaching. I actually lived in Coney Hall, but Bromley was only a 5d ride away (or 6d to the North if going to the Odeon or Pullman ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Peter Leach

My fathers parents, Edward and Winifred Simmons, ran the general stores in the Parade at Otford in the 1950s and early 1960s. My mother, her sister and parents, Grace and Alfred Maddock, lived in Bubblestone ...Read more

A memory of Shoreham in 1960 by Anne Helen Roberts

I was born in Standhills Rd,went first to St Marys then to Bromley Hills.Then spent my senior years at Penzer St School.Although there was some of the lessons i liked,my favourite was P.E.our Teacher was Mrs Waters.My ...Read more

A memory of Kingswinford by m.d.ryder