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Funny how seeing Memories of Kingstanding title, it brought back so many thoughts of living there in childhood to my 20s. The Geman plane that dropped its bomb on a house in Hurlingham Road, hiding under stairs at school as the ...Read more

A memory of Kingstanding by Norma Bird

My Auntie and Uncle lived in a wing of Allonby Reading Room; it was called Melville House. Their surname was Hill and their Christian names were May and Joseph. I spent many summer holidays in the 50s and early 60s with them and ...Read more

A memory of Allonby by robbbonner50

I have written a series of memory articles that can be found on the http://www.barkinghistoricalsociety.co.uk/ under Vic's Memories. They cover all aspects of life in Barking from 1938 to about 1960. They ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Vic Howard

Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by keith.hindson

In 1798 my Ancestor Thomas Baker was a boy of 6 years and was living in the village of Staple with his parents and younger siblings. Thomas Baker's eldest brother was ...Read more

A memory of Staple by Gemma Gemma

Born in 1939, lived in Lansdowne Grove, House destroyed by German bomb I was buried in rubble. Moved away to Blackpool returned to Heron Road Willesden 1947. Made very few friends, Names remembered are Owen family, Syd West Jack ...Read more

A memory of Willesden by jmjmwillis

My memory refers to Paddy Mc Closkey who died on 21st December last at the Mater Hospital, Dublin. My quest is to find the grave of his mother- I am assuming she has departed this life- so as Paddy can be buried with ...Read more

A memory of Dublin by Walter Naughton

My grandparents John Cussons, joiner / carpenter and his wife Emmie (nee Cotton) lived in Brandsby after their marriage in 1903. They had 3 sons all born at Brandsby, Geoffrey bn1904, Harold bn 1905, and my father Frederick bn ...Read more

A memory of Brandsby by Eileen Rosamund Gray

I was born in West Mid Hosp and we lived in Worton Way which was technically Isleworth but very close to Hounslow High Street. Our surname was Pritchett. I went to Spring Grove Infant School in Star Road from 1962-1969 and then ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Christine Callow

It was lovely to see the Ferguson’s mentioned in David Goodman's article. I was born in 1947 and spent many happy summer holidays there, in the 50’s and early 60’s. We got the post van from Tighnabruaich. My father James ...Read more

A memory of Kilfinan by Ruth Canning