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With my parents I used to visit my father's parents at Nowton every summer between 1946 to 1950. My grandparents were William and Rose Bradley. My grandfather was always in a 'bath chair', I do not know what his illness was. I ...Read more

A memory of Nowton in 1946 by Rosemary Coleman

I was born Andrea Ward in Wellington at the Bradley Moore Nursing Home, my parents lived in Oakengates. My grandfather Thomas Turner was a lay preacher with the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Ketley. His wife was Mary Ann. I have been ...Read more

A memory of Ketley in 1945 by Andrea Phillips

i was born in perivale maternity hospital in 1944. i lived at 97 greenford road up till 1958. i attended stanhope infants, junior and senior school. i lived very near the play park opposite stanhope road. my mother worked at Coles ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1944 by Barry Dady

I was known as Beryl Pooley. I lived in Copley House from 1942 til 1954 or 1956, I can't quite remember. I remember Sutton Park where we went on Saturdays, wooding. The wood was for the fireplace. I remember being ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield in 1942 by Barbara J Patterson

I was born in Sutton at Hone and lived there until I married in 1963. I remember many of the names recalled in the memories on this site. My maiden name was Bradley and I had two brothers David and Raymond. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Sutton at Hone in 1940 by Mavis Fuller

My great-grandparents Lived at Oak Farm, Oak Lane, Kingswinford. Their name was Bradley.

A memory of Kingswinford in 1880

Researching family history led me to Charlotte Bradley and Josiah Hawkes from Great Waltham. They married in 1871. Charlotte was a servant to the Oddie family and Josiah was an agricultural labourer from a ...Read more

A memory of Great Waltham in 1870 by Sandra Roberts

'The Hayward' sign was outside 'Haywards Cafe & Restaurant' which flourished until the 1960s when it successively became 'Delmontes', 'Pieros', 'La Ferola' and now 'The Blue India'. Going down the right hand side of the Broadway ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath

We were like one huge crazy family, not only from Welling, but also from the surrounding towns of Blackfen, Bexleyheath, Crayford, Dartford, Eltham, Plumstead and Woolwich - even as far as from the other ...Read more

A memory of Welling by Bernard Schofield

I was born in 1950 at my grandparents house on Quebec Street, in the Werneth/Westwood area. I lived in Limeside at 86, Pine Tree Road and attended Limehurst junior school and then went on to Hollins Secondary school. Saturday always ...Read more

A memory of Oldham by Larry Walton