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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

My family moved into Darenth Road in 1960 - we were the first in our street and watched the rest of the houses being built around us. There was nothing but mud, wheelbarrows and workmen. My dad's ...Read more

A memory of Welling by Carol Bouziane

I was born and lived in Hengist Road opposite Collindale Ave near Brook Street and the Rec as we called it, I'm Tony Messum and I shared with my Brother Michael, and Sister Patricia and my buddies were ...Read more

A memory of Northumberland Heath by thekentishman

I was born in Edgware general hospital in 1945 we lived in methuen rd . In those days Edgware was a great place to live and I enjoyed a very happy childhood there.My sister and I attended Camrose school.I wonder what happend to David Laws who ...Read more

A memory of Edgware by stephensonnex

I was born in Park Royal hospital on a hot July day in 1957 and was taken home to Mayo Road, where almost our entire family lived at numbers 46, 53 and 56. I was christened at St Mary's church, on my ...Read more

A memory of Willesden by mark.jenkinson

I remember the lovely fresh bread smell from Aldridges the bakery at the Triagle, the Grove Fish and Chip shop's marvellous rock salmon and chips cooked in beef dripping of course, Killips department store's dumb waiter, learning to ...Read more

A memory of Egham by sylviaanddoug

Where are you... all my friends... people I knew... people who knew me... MRS ROOK... Roy Chick's family... I have actually spoken to only one person... MISS HOCKIN from the sweet shop in Fore ...Read more

A memory of St Marychurch in 1940 by Frederick Watson

Have written memoirs of boyhood of my 2 brothers and myself in Falconwood, Eltham and Welling. Did local newspaper rounds for Hutton's at Falconwood Station and carried his moneybags to Martin's Bank, Eltham High ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1940 by rayjscott

Primary school teacher was Miss Barbara Chisolm. She married a local farmer, Jack Cumming, and they farmed Abbeylands at least until the early fifties. The house and farm buildings were demolished and several houses ...Read more

A memory of Pluscarden in 1930 by Trudy Hardie

We moved to Northwood in 1978 and the shops in Green Lane were pretty much like this view. Maybe there were yellow lines on the road to stop parking! Just beyond the lorry on the right of the picture was a small department store ...Read more

A memory of Northwood in 1978 by John Howard Norfolk