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I remember as a child flattening out card boards boxes, as we lived on Great Arthur Street, Smethwick, the gardens led onto the canal banks and my brother and my cousins used to slide down to the bottom - what a thrill - and trying to ...Read more

A memory of Smethwick in 1968

It was a must in the 1960's. The Carlton was in the High Street near the post office, a few steps were at the front, leading to the entrance and it was always packed. They had a bar upstairs where you stood drinking looking ...Read more

A memory of Slough

My memories are of living at 37 pickmere lane from 1969 age 7. My mum Beryl Owen still lives there now and I still live in Wincham. I will always remember the "bob bob bob" of the motor boats which I could here from my bedroom ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere by antoneyowen

As a student at Aber 1944-48 I used the Bing Kee (spelling as I remember it) laundry when I could afford it. Bing Kee and his wife seemed to be very old but there were two daughters (or possibly ...Read more

A memory of Aberystwyth by anthonywaterson

I was only a few months old when our family moved to 122 Marsala Road, Ladywell in 1949. I was ten years of age when we moved from Ladywell to Dartford in August 1959 but there are many different and varied ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1958 by Tony Brown

I was born in 1953 and lived at Largess Farm in Belchamp Walter. My surname then was Branwhite.My father was Fred Branwhite, a farmer. I went to the village school whenIi was 5 years old. It was a ...Read more

A memory of Belchamp Walter in 1953 by Elizabeth Jane Clark

One of my earliest recollections is sitting on a bar stool in the Lord Roberts pub in Ashford, Kent in 1956/1957. Together with her husband (George), my grandmother (Gertrude Volans) ran the pub, which accounts for why at such a young ...Read more

A memory of Ashford by p.dunks.5

does any one remember a bar in croydon town centre in the late 60/early 70 called the beir kellor i think it was just past where marks and spencers is now you had to go down some steps to get i used to go there but cant find any reference to it

A memory of Croydon by murleysandra

My memory of Stanhope castle school was always the knuckles hitting the top of your head and punched in the gut for not doing as you were told to do it too slow in doing what the master's asked you to do . ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope by westpaul458

I was brought up in Pode Hole from 1967, my mother Joan is still alive but now living in Spalding, sadly my Dad Ken died in the Fishermans Arms pub on Sept 23 1977. I have a brother Nigel and a sister Susan. We ...Read more

A memory of Pode Hole in 1967 by Stephen Cropley