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I attended John Ruskin Grammar school in the 1950's when it was in Tamworth Road. Our 'Art lessons' were held in a church hall across from Wandle Park and we had to walk across the railway ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1952 by Bernard Maguire

I was placed in Denham Court on 20th February 1953 at the age of 12 years (just five days before my thirteenth birthday, which I recall was not even acknowledged by anyone) when it was a Children's Home. The Matron and her husband were ...Read more

A memory of Denham in 1953 by Elizabeth Neilly

I would have been three years old back then, living, as we did, at 77 High Street with my grandparents (the Dentons). Harry (my grandfather) used to keep bees and was regularly praised for his ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Courtenay in 1955 by Eamonn Kelly

I cannot remember how old I was when we started going to the south coast of England for a Sunday trip, but it was when my father sold his Norton motorbike and bought a Golden Flash with a sidecar ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton in 1955 by Carole Baldwin

I was born at 87 Victoria Street in 1945. My father was a miner and worked all his life in Caerau colliery. My mother came from London with her brothers and sisters, they were evacuated to Caerau after their house ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1953 by Colin Evans

My mother has often said to me "You don't appreciate what you've got until you lose it". She is wrong, for I will never forget the wonderful garden of my childhood and write below the memories that I will hold for ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

Some months later, how long I cannot remember for the passing of time means little to a child, except that it always seemed so long for things to happen; but I found myself again seated in the back seat of another ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

Beside the strawberry bed grew a large cooking apple tree that produced enormous green apples. We had a variety of both eating and cooking apple trees in the garden, the fruit from which was harvested and then ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

I remember sneaking into the match by going past the lodging house on Warden Lane and going by the railwayside and through a hole in the fence that the railway men had made so that they could ...Read more

A memory of Newton in 1950 by Jack Rigby

In the 1950s I was in the Royal Engineers and came over from Germany to our school of military engineering at Chatham where we did a course in electrical power stations. We were then posted to Bulford barracks, and did our ...Read more

A memory of Bulford in 1954 by Norman Webb