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I was born in 61. My gran and grandad Elizabeth and Thomas Wainwright ran the Robin Hood pub in Salford - I cannot remember the exact street it was on, but I think you could get to it from Lower Broughton Rd. It was a cosy ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1964 by Michele Savage

We moved to Collyhurst (60 Thornton St North) in 1966/67 and I have always considered myself a Collyhurst girl. I absolutely loved it there and used to play on the railway line at the back of the flats. I ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1967 by Lesley Mottley

I lived in Cadogan Avenue with my Nan & Grandad Mizen, Mum and Dad until we moved to Hutton when I was about 4. My Nan lived there until she died in 2001, God bless her. I have so many happy childhood memories with her ...Read more

A memory of West Horndon in 1965 by Karen Kavanagh

I lived at Thornton Road from 1960 when I was born and left home in 1985.

A memory of Carshalton in 1967

Next to Mundays (sweets, stationery and newspapers) was a butcher with sawdust on the floor, a separate paydesk in a kiosk (much more hygienic than today) and tubes which swept ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1965 by Christine Higgs

This brings back the very vivid memory of me cycling into the bottom of the driveway and heading straight into the Sports Master's car (whose name eludes me!) and ending up on his bonnet, needless to say ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1962 by Polly Short

Annette and I (Annette Schofield and George Allen) became landlords of the Chequers (no longer a pub) on 23 January 1967. It was a BYB pub and James Hubert Dibb was the landlord before us. We ran the pub for about 18 months and ...Read more

A memory of Monk Fryston in 1967 by George Allen

I met my husband of 41 years back in the 60's, I lived in Shirley, a very new housing estate then, called Shrublands. We used to ride around Croydon and Norbury on his scooter and often visited the Tarentella ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1963 by Christine Weeks/ Nee Cox

I lived in Stakes Hill Road between 1957 and 1970. I used to play with Tamblyn Thornton who Lived in South Africa Lodge and Alex Robertson who lived in the flint cottage in front of South Africa Lodge. Our house was No 54 ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1960 by Richard Martin

I went to Marianne Thornton School in 1961 until 1966 when I was 15. I went to work for the GPO as a Continental telephone operator and did 3 months training in Eagle House on Cannon Street and then to Wood Street exchange in the ...Read more

A memory of Clapham in 1961 by Linda Goatley