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My family lived in Stanmore, Middlesex and on a hot summer evening (yes there were some!) my dad would pile mum and I into his little 1932 Austin 7 and off we would go to the 'swimming bath' at London Colney. I ...Read more

A memory of London Colney in 1953 by Susan Rundles

I was fostered to stay with a Mrs Collins who lived at 47 Spencer avenue, Hayes in Middlesex. I remember that she had a daughter called Mavis who was married at Easter, believe it was 27th April, 1953? I was ...Read more

A memory of Hayes in 1951 by Elizabeth Neilly

I started at Feltham Hill School in 1950 at the age of five. I was the youngest of four children Jackie, Betty and Bobby - Mr Shattock was the Headmaster. We moved from Feltham to Ashford, Middlesex and I attended Echelford ...Read more

A memory of Feltham in 1950 by Marjorie Clifford

My mother came from Dormanstown and my grandparents, Ellen and James Mitchell, lived at 67, Broadway West. This was a Dorman-Long house as my grandfather and an uncle worked for the Dorman-Long Steel Works. I spent many a ...Read more

A memory of Dormanstown in 1950 by Elizabeth Cannon

I am searching for a Pam Holloway who lived in Southall Middlesex (London) around 1950, I attended school with her at Dormers Wells School. We went to Switzerland on a school trip around 1950. Pam had a sister, I think ...Read more

A memory of Taunton in 1950 by June Manson

In the late 1940's- late 1950's, the Hounslow Welsh Society used to meet in a hall on the left hand side as you entered the grounds of the Hospital. I have very happy memories of the evenings spent there, we had a choir, & an ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1950 by Peggy Roberts

I grew up nearer to Queensbury but no pages for that little spot. I can recall playing on the streets almost all day, the streets were safer then. We played five stones and whips and tops, we whipped the heck out of those ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1950 by Erica Mary Firth

Edgware, that beautiful place called home, where we played on the street from early morning until dusk, boys and girls had so much fun together in such innocence, playing games such as 'five stones', 'hop scotch', 'tin can ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1950 by Erica Mary Firth

I was born in S.Kensington, moved to Northolt and then to Carlyle Road, S.Ealing around 1951 when I was aged 4. I attended Little Ealing Infant School and then moved next door to the 'upper school'...later moving to the new build Ealing Mead ...Read more

A memory of Ealing in 1950 by Victor Hunt

I too was born at the Perivale maternity hospital in 1949, and at the time we lived in a prefab at Gurnell Grove somewhere near Cuckoo Hill I think, if anyone has photos of these prefabs perhaps you could email me one on: ...Read more

A memory of Perivale in 1949 by John Nicholls