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My family, surname Ligema, were friends of Jim Highmoor who ran the scout group at Newbiggin during the 1950s and 60s. Mr Highmoor kindly let us stay for our holidays in the Scout Hut which was situated below the old ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin by janeligema

I was at school at Tylers Croft school in 1957 for 18 months before we moved to Oxfordshire. I remember walking to school from where I lived in Salmon Street, along Slough Lane and passed the Green Man pub and crossing over the Kingsbury ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by carole.gentry

I was another Auld Millfielder, times were hard and nobody was well off but it was a happy place to grow up. I remember as a kid everyone under 18 playing cricket on the 'square' at the top of Millfield Crescent and using dustbin lids ...Read more

A memory of Newburn by Norman Dunbar

I was born and brought up in Barbaraville, spending the first 27 years of my life there before moving to Inverness. I will always remember it as an idyllic place to grow up in.. Many a happy hour was spent ...Read more

A memory of Barbaraville in 1970

Born in Ilford 1947 I lived just a few yards from Barking Park. I spent a lot of happy times there in the outdoor swimming pool, running around the field, riding on the little train, boating on the lake (especially the steamer), ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1947

There so much I remember of Bedfont, but the best is how safe the area was and how we used to play out late at night playing torch at the corner of Southville Road using the post box and the bushes. We couldn't play ball games on the lane ...Read more

A memory of Bedfont in 1965 by Sharron Fuller

My earliest memories were of the surrounding streets, Barmore and Ingrave, York Road and especially the "Monkey Stairs", a set of steps off both York and Lombard Roads leading to flats on the first floor. ...Read more

A memory of Clapham in 1950

My dad moved his family into 3 Knights Close, Billesdon, when I was 7 years old. Our family consisted of my dad Terry, my mum Jytte, my brother Steven and myself Dionne. Our neighbours were the Townsend’s at No 1, ...Read more

A memory of Billesdon by Dionne Møller

I can still remember the day I started school. My Mum walked me from Isington to Binsted, I didn't know exactly where I was going and when we got to the school we had to go up these steps that were overhung with trees, it reminded me of ...Read more

A memory of Isington in 1958 by Linda Cox

Birkenhead in the 1950s – it bears no resemblance to how it is today – it does’nt even look the same. Most of the places I remember are gone. The streets where I grew up have gone – the geography of the place has changed – ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by mcgraa