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His father Sydney had been a Police Inspector who served in Rhodesia, and lived in Perranporth in a property called Inyanga and was a members of ...Read more

A memory of Perranporth by Gemma Gemma

I was most surprised when my Google search revealed memories from so many years ago. I went to the Building Tech in Garratt lane when I was 13 in 1949. It was an escape tunnel for me from a ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by dwcreasey

I lived in Croydon until 1969 (the year I got married and moved away). My Dad - Len Marsh - was a Cinema Manager with the ABC chain, and we lived very near the Rex Cinema, Norbury, closed in 1962. Dad was based there for a time, but ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Colin Marsh

My Mother was born in Graces Road in Aug 1893 in her parents house with her eight Bros/Sisters until she married my father in 1918, on leave from France. In 1920 they moved to Green Lane, Thornton Heath. I was Born in 1930. On special ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Brian Shiers

At 26 Bellesfields road Brixton off Stockwell Road, lived James Greenfield a Police Constable, who lived with his mother Florence Sarah nee Tyler, at this address before he married Dorothy Thomas at Holy Trinity Church Tulse Hill on August the 3rd 1940.

A memory of Brixton by Gemma Gemma

On 8th September 1946 at Stockwell Congregational Church Stockwell Green, Kenneth Sydney Edwards a Commercial Clerk of Perranporth Cornwall married Widow Nellie Kathleen Drake of 26 ...Read more

A memory of Stockwell by Gemma Gemma

I was born in Fleetwood in 1936 and lived there until 1959 when I left to emigrate to Australia. I was brought up in Byron St living with my parents George and Dolly Arkwright ,I attended Blackinston primary school then moved to Chaucer Rd ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by bebron81

About 1949/50 I was 10.The ponds had dried up because there was no water coming from the spring in the corner where the Grove entrance met the High Street. There used to be a set of steps that went down into the pond at that point.If my ...Read more

A memory of Carshalton by Tony Arkell

I went to Sunny Hill primary school left in 1960 then went to Parkside in Brixton. Lived in Coventry Hall Polworth Road when it was the old convent turned into flats.

A memory of Streatham

I grew up in the 1950s/60s in this area and well remember the local picture houses and Saturday matinees - watched 'Sink the Bismark ' when it first showed. Mum used to take me round the market then the big stores and ...Read more

A memory of Brixton by Peter Barry