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Timber
I lived in Malvern Road and remember the winter of '47 when we had six weeks of snow and wonderful tobogganing on the slopes. My dad was the manager of Park&Brown Jeffery Street and a skilled wood man who was able to build me an excellent ...Read more
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A Child's View.
I moved to Woldingham with my Mother (she worked for Sir James and Lady Marshall at Whistlers Wood) when I was five years old (1951). I remember my Mother ordering food from Saffins and this I believe was delivered. Also remember ...Read more
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Clapham Church
I visited Clapham and the Church in the summer of 1999. At different periods during the 1800's my Collins family lived and worked there. Thomas Collins of Burpham was buried at Clapham on September 13th, 1855 at 55. His first ...Read more
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Student Days
Was an accountancy student from 1969-1971. As a foreign student so far away from home (Singapore), i was able to settle down very quickly as everyone I met was so friendly. After I completed my accountancy studies, I tried to find a job ...Read more
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Lord Mayor Treloars Hospital 1953 1958
Starting when I was eleven I was a patient over 5 years for three spells, 2 years, 18 months and 9 months with an infected hip joint which became a deep routed abscess. Many different ‘ new’ antibiotics were tried to ...Read more
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Lost Opportunity?
I was born in Drayton in 1943 and was at Solent Road School and the Northern Grammar School for Boys. I then went to London University and subsequently worked abroad while returning to Portsmouth regularly where I have my UK Home for ...Read more
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How Burghfield Common Has Change.
I have lived all my 60+ years in Burghfield Common and I have seen it totally transformed. I was born and brought up in Three Firs Way, and lived here until 1987 when I got married and moved to Hunters Hill. ...Read more
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The Only Television Set In The Street.
I don't suppose that many of my friends will have watched the last Coronation on TV, partly because it was 70 years ago, but mainly because very few people had a television. My father, Frank, had a Radio and ...Read more
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More Memories From A Boy Growing Up In Burghfield
Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more
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Hemingford Grey Playgoup
We moved in to Apple Orchard Lane in 1963. There were only 4 houses in the road and after quite a short time it was decreed that we should become part of The Apple Orchard and so we were numbered on and became 15. I ...Read more
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