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Where the present Tulse Hill Tesco Shop and Esso Petrol station stands today, was the home of my grandfather Alfred John Thomas from the 1920's to the 1950's. Through the 1960's & 70's his daughter Julie Thomas ran the Petrol Station. The Station was in front of their home, a large victorian building (no 109), which had been some sort of club, called Cheriton Court. The grounds ...see more
At 26 Bellesfields road Brixton off Stockwell Road, lived James Greenfield a Police Constable, who lived with his mother Florence Sarah nee Tyler, at this address before he married Dorothy Thomas at Holy Trinity Church Tulse Hill on August the 3rd 1940.
John Belemore lived at the Manor House in Harlesden with his wife Frances nee Whitby, her relation Robert Whitby was the Local Surgeon GP in the 19th century.
I remember the 1980's & early 1990's when Tony & Lorna Marsh the Peacock Inn's owners had jazz bands playing in the back bar on Friday evenings . I snapped some photos of Stan Tracey sitting on telephone directories to gain the best height to play an old upright piano. It was party night every Friday and the audience came from quite a distance to enjoy the evening.
I have discovered that my relations were related by marriage to Lord Horatio Nelson. He had a 2nd cousin called Bartholomew Nelson whose widow Lydia married my ancestor James Whitby, a builder from Kings Lynn.
James owned a property in Whissonsett occupied by a T. Neal, and his son James Neal married Lydia's daughter Emma Nelson. On the 1841 census in Whissonsett James & Emma Neal are living with their family and Lydia Nelson aged 70.
I was at palmaston house 1977 6mnths it was not the best place remember Mr Hall went to abbey wells summer of 1977 than in 1984 mr Hall become oiffce in charge
My mum Sylvia Pitts was evacuated from Bristol as a child to Gunnislake during the war. She stayed with a farming family with her school friend. All I remember from her is that she was on a farm and the eldest son was called Tom.
Mum was a proper Townie and it was a big culture shock to be living in the countryside. Sadly she has now passed away so I can no longer get any more information about her stay.
Sue.
Trolley buses ran along Green Lanes from Finsbury Square; turning right for Enfield at Mason's Corner. The 244 route went from Collegiate School, Winchmore Hill to Muswell Hill. Chalkleys the bakers was on the corner of The Green & Broad Walk had houses for celebrities & football champions. Keble School where I attended, boys only, had summer uniform including grey felt hats with a brim & hatband in ...see more
We lived in the last house at the bottom of benson Lane, next to the fields, great memory's, attended normanton infants school and normanton Common, my brother Frank went to normanton grammar school. Remember living in the back to back terraces, the outside toilets at home and at the school. Playing in the fields next to our house, also playing in haw Hill Park, lots of times, my sister wendy falling in the pond one ...see more
I was born in a house on the Eastern Avenue between Cantly gardens and Denham Drive in 1955. I moved to wales to go to uni in 1975. I worked as a Saturday girl in Barton’s the bakers in Gants Hill for a ridiculously low wage. Loved it. I then worked in Chelsea Girl in Oxford Street on a Saturday that paid a lot better. Gants Hill station was my second home taking me and my friends to London. I attended Newbury ...see more
I don’t know exactly how old I was when we moved to Hemel from Willesden London N.W.10.. My first memories were from about the age of 4.. We lived in a flat in Underacres Close near Mayland’s Wood.. I remember getting lost in the wood and a nice man helped me by lifting me over his back garden fence and putting me back in Briery Road so I knew were I was again.
I remember going to ...see more
Hi I went to St Cuthbert's from 1964 to 1969 my time there was ok but i was not one of the best student, i was in trouble a lot for fighting. I was known then as Billy Carr or Jeckal at that time i went straight into the army from school and spent 9 years in the Royal Engineers. I lived in Frizington at that time always a chaotic bus ride home!!!. I remember Goose and a few of the young ladies from my ...see more
My Dad, Sandy Leonard was the Group Scout Leader of the 1st Green Street Green Scout Group in the 1960’s. We lived just up from the Crescent Way.
Best to all
Peter
I am very interested in Northleach because my family connections, the Mustoes and Larners, go back several hundred years there and certainly in the case of the Larners back to the 1600's.
Both families were shepherds and agricultural labourers. This was a very close knit community and as an example of that my great grandparents, Thomas Larner and Elizabeth Mustoe were first cousins. (Her father and his ...see more
I attended this school between !971 and 1974 before moving on to Purley High School. It was a truly awful school run by a Dickensian character, who still used corporal punishment. He was aided and abetted by like minded teachers who didn't seem to like children, although there were a few exceptions. I too was bullied while there by children and a teacher. Dreadful place. Remembered for all the wrong reasons. Many years later, returning to the gates brought back tears.
I stayed in one of these coaches when I was four years old back in 1958
My grandfather, Thomas Haskard, was proprietor of the White House inn for 25 years until his death in 1951. I spent many happy holidays there with my brother, Roger, and my three cousins lived in a house just across the road. I still bear a scar on my leg from forays into Ambergate Woods with my brother, who was born in Ambergate in 1935. I was christened in St Anne’s church in 1941. My father Stanley worked for ...see more
I spent many happy holidays with my Auntie Doris, who lived in Shaw Lane. My dad and aunt spent many happy times in the Wheel Inn and my cousin married Jean Tuner, the daughter. My other aunt and three cousins lived at Derwent View, Milford, at the other end of Shaw Lane so we made many journeys up and down the lane. My Auntie Doris eventually moved down to Makeney Lane, Milford and lived at East View near the Derwent.
My Dad did his army training adjacent to Baglan during WW2.
The hastily built barracks did not have enough bathroom facilities and asked local residents for permission for soldiers to have a bath in their houses. A super-kind family allowed this for my Dad and they also invited us to stay with them.
So, my mother, younger sister and brother took a very long train journey from Grimsby and stayed for a few ...see more
I was in Hutton residential school between 1955/58 in neath house my name then was David O’Sullivan I remember the house master had a dog which I believe was a golden retriever if anybody has any memories of neath house at that I would like to share them with you
My Mum grew up and stayed in Stanstead Abbotts. We lived in a house in Thele Avenue. We often walked up Cats Hill with our Dad and played in the woods. Quite a beautiful place to grow up.
Memories of getting the tube from Arnos Grove to Rayners Lane and then the long walk up Imperial Drive - until reaching the driving centre.
The set up included traffic lights, zebra crossings, roundabouts, parking spaces, parked cars and a class room. Inside, a cut in half mini - showing you all the workings of the engine and steering - looks like someone had cut it open in length - ...see more
So many hours of reading here in this library. The children's section was in the main door and to the right served by the 2 windows shown on the ground floor. I recall taking out every Arthur Ransome title and many others. I was fascinated by the section of the Surrey Iron Railway displayed in the gardens also to the right of the pool against the boundary wall. I wonder if its still ...see more
Hi
I am am coming for a reminisce of holidays at Holywell farm, which my Great Uncle Harry and Great Aunt Vi owned, I am hoping I can find the beautiful thatched house, they were idyllic holidays for us girls who came from a council estate in Reading, Berks.
Collecting eggs from the hen house, and Aunt Vi, having some egg scales to find out if they were Standard, medium, large, which was my ...see more
My father, Alex cross, and his siblings grew up in brunton street, he said it curved around and theirs had an old boat in the garden/yard. I am going back to the 1930s.
I cannot find any photos of brunton street, has anyone got one?
His dad was Fred, born London, mother Lilian(nee Stuart). There was Tom, Lena, Alex, Harold, Maisy, Freda and Raymond. It appears much changed from when my father was young.
I went to fornethy residential school when I was five and nine years old and I was very happy thare I loved the long walks through the woods and walking down the stoney brae to the burn to paddle our feet and we had to pass a farm to get to the burn and everyone would hold their nose because of the smell. I remember in the classroom sending home a letter and drawings of what I had been ...see more
In 1957 l went to Ledston Hall school at the Time it was a boys boarding school. My stay was short only one year as the school moved to breckenburgh Hall near Thirsk.
Sadly Ledston Hall was deamed to be unsafe.
I have a lot of memories about the school.
The building in this view with the clock was, in the 1960's, a bank, I don't recall which one but maybe Barclays. I do recall on entering it, the main service counter ran parallel to the High Street and behind it under the windows facing the Whitgift alms houses on the opposite corner was another counter about 20ft [6m] long and 2ft 6" [0,75m] wide completely covered in bundles of notes. 5 Pound, 1 Pound and 10/- notes. ...see more
I remember these shops so well from my childhood. The first on the left was a newsagent the next a baker at the other end of the Broadway was the post office. My brothers,my sister and I passed them every school day on our way to Highview School up Plough Lane. I especially recall that in 1952 most of the shops had stuck stamps of King George on their windows; some they had edged with black ink as a mark of ...see more
As a family we stayed at a self catering cottage here just before 1962 one of our first holidays in the Standard Vanguard estate after many staying in Railway Camping coaches all over southern England. [Sadly none feature in the archive] I well remember the water being delivered and the spout and trough in the retaining wall that held up the Church graveyard. I suppose it still does. Considering the origin ...see more
From 1964 I occasionally took the No. 691 bus from Ilford to Barkingside to shop. I used to buy my toddler son a Matchbox car from a toy shop. He didn't talk a lot but within a couple of years he could name most of the cars on the road and was particularly enamored of the car transporters that we saw on the Eastern Avenue. The first one bought was a white Volvo which forever after became 'Saint's Car'
Can anyone tell ...see more
Hi my name is Rita i don't remember much about my time at the hall as I was only 7months old in 1957 when we arrived
Luckily my sister Maria Attard and brother Dominic Attard were a bit older, my sister was 3 years old and brother was 6 years old. I think we were there for a few years as I do have some memories of Christmas when the helicopter with santa getting out and giving us gifts.
I also remember the ...see more
We lived in The Meadow, the road opposite Rush Pond, for 30years. Our house is not there anymore, it was demolished and a much bigger house on the site. We had a dear little cottage, St Anne's.
I still belong to the Chislehurst Society. My late husband was the secretary of the Society for many years. I loved Chislehurst, but now enjoy living in Pluckley, Kent,
This 1904 photo shows both the main line through Box but also the entry to a huge underground military store and factory. When I worked at the MoD in the 1960's I recall that there were 2 lines at one end of the tunnel and 4 at the other. The plans of the extent of the underground works and stores were not fully shown on the plans held at the office; much of it was still classified as "secret" and ...see more
We holidayed in Torquay in july 1965 we was a group of kids from The Hollies children's home in sidcup Kent..by what I remember the YMCA hotel was called the castle hotel..would this be the same one or was there more then one YMCA hotels in Torquay in those days
I'm trying to find out the history of 'Bronllwyn', Tyn y Wern Villas, Trethomas, South Wales and what it was used for in the 1920's. My mother was born and brought up in Bedlinog, Glamorganshire, South Wales but it seems she spent some time in Bronllwyn around Christmas 1928. I know my mother suffered of ill health of some sort but I know very little of her childhood. I'm 82 now and would dearly like to know a little more about my mum.
Margo Smith
Smith6767@btinternet.com
Hi folks.
I'm posting this as I have a photo, ( Don't know how to up-load it on here), of Bryn Ddol farm/cottage, photo taken in the 1940's.
This is where my late husband's nana lived.
My late husband gave me the photo as a mememto of the house he was born at ie, Bryn Ddol, Llangoed.
Does anyone else know anything about the area if so, would love to hear from you.
I didn't live in Bucklebury but was born in Cold Ash where I lived prior to moving to Thatcham. Unfortunately my father died as the result of a motor cycle accident when I was eight years old, and social care being what it was in the nineteen fifties, it was necessary for my mother to undertake full time employment to support us.. Consequently I spent many after school hours and weekends in the care of the ...see more
I had many a dodgy haircut, and a few good ones, at De Sallas (?) In Darkes Lane.
And my father and mother used to love the Embassy Club.
My father used to take me wrestling at the Ritz. I saw Mick McManus, Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki, and Adrian Street there.
I used to like the Bridge House and the Conservative Club for an underaged Double Diamond or Skol too.
hi all my nan elsie had caravan on this site , got great memories being on the site in early 80s , such simple times then , may be some one knows what happened to the site and the owner norman , also used to be a lady called sylvia who was fortune teller type at rhyl funfair who actually had next caravan to my nan, hopefully someone has some more info and memories . x
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 saw me going off to the Roxy cinema in Hollinwood, for the afternoon matinee with my friends. At one time we had the Mayor (and his wife) of Oldham living next door to us at number 88, Mr ...see more
I started Finchampstead school in 1953.There were 3 class rooms each with a cloak room,a girls toilet block ,be it only 3 toilet cubicles for us children and one for the teachers and boys block but I never entered that and so know nothing of it . They addjoined the play shed at the top of the small play ground . Girls played in one half ,boys in the other.
At lunch time we walked to the parish hall where our school ...see more
I've just posted 2 photos of Highcroft School pupils circa 1961 on my Facebook Page . If you're interested friend request to view them. I now live in Torquay.
Hi all any info would be great I am looking for a very good friend of mine Antony Edwards he owned a butchers in burnt oak in the late 70s and 80s any info or photos of the shop will be much appreciated
Born Glasgow 1952, visited my granny at 249a Edgware Road on many occasions, she lived above Barclays bank.
Hi I was there the same time as you, Mrs Anderson was my teacher, my name is lesley southey.
Being at the school from 1968 plus, was the best time of my childhood, the school was very big, all sorts of things going on there, I had good friends there, zena down grace , Mrs Anderson was my teacher she was lovely .my name was lesley southey.
My mother was born and brought up in west auckland in the 19
20 s she lived in a small miners cottage in a small street which I think was called New Street lived there with her parents 2 brothers and sister I remember going there when we were very young. Our aunt had the sweet shop along the front. Just trying to find photos of the 1950 s of the place.. and anything anyone remembers from that time
Hi,
Anyone remember a shop called Indigo in Dartford?
I used to go to Dartford on the train, with my mum, once in a while, and I remember a shop called indigo, I can’t remember what it sold (I’m guessing jeans) It’s a memory that’s stuck in my mind.
I went to Dartford recently, after many years, came out of the station and didn’t recognise a thing, came down a set of stairs, straight onto a dual carriageway ….. I’m sure ...see more
I too remember holidaying here with my family in the late 60s, early 70s. In fact I have just revisited the island and paid homage to Seaview. Nothing has changed much, except the old hotel at the end of Pier Rd has gone. The house looks remarkably the same. Great memories!
As a little girl in late 1950’s /60’s I used to visit my grandparents caravan on the site by the Semaphore pub.
It hasn’t changed a bit apart from big, new caravans replacing the little old ones. The big field and of course the view exactly the same.
We all had our own garden around the caravan - and as a child used to love the little oil lights.
Remember my dad and ...see more
I am 74 and was born at 4 Northfields gardens on may 11 1947. And remember when my nan lived at 14 Sterry road just off the Heathway She had a Dalmatian called chukie I used to go to Marino’s for sweets and mum and dad took my sister and me to jenners the clothes shop in Broadway I remember a lad called Russell Probert not sure if he lived in Sterry Road or just nearby
My dad worked at Briggs later taken over ...see more
I lived in Belsize Road, Swiss Cottage end for many years from the 50s through the 60s till i got married, I remember lots of things, the buses getting stuck in the road going up to Swiss Cottage in the snow and ice and having to be pushed, wouldnt think of that now. Up and down the road on my sledge, oh what times. I had a friend called LaLa who i lost contact with who lived a couple of doors away. Also neighbours ...see more
I lived in Wath until I enlisted in the RAF at the age of 19. The photographs of Wath on Dearne create a sense of enormous nostalgia and I vividly recall my childhood and teenage years. I attended the Grammar School 1947/52 and reflect upon the teachers, for whom I had great respect, and my fellow school students.
Despite the two collieries and the second largest railway marshalling yard in ...see more
I lived in Becmead Avenue, my maiden name was Montgomery. My sister and I went to St. Leonards School from 1955, Mr Stewart was headmaster, and I remember Mrs Morrison and Mr. Keeling. Streatham had Saturday morning pictures and as we got older, the ice-rink and Locarno. All the old stores, Pratts and Sharmans with its pod system sending money around. I got married in St. Leonards Church in 1972, eventually ...see more
I think it mite have been one Sunday in 1954 (cos the plant was nearly deserted) when me, my older bro Roy and 2 or 3 other kids from Hart Lane wound up in the new car parking area of General Motors Vauxhall.
As all the cars keys were left in the ignitions, this backlot was about to become Pleasure Island for Pinocchio and the naughty boys!?
Most of us 6-8yr olds had never ...see more
We lived in this house also from 1965-67 ( I think ?).
I was 5 years old in 1965 and my brothers and I started school at Locks Hill in Frome.
The house came with a lovely naughty goat called Billy .
My parents told us Little Jack Horner lived here once upon a time which I have no idea whether he was a real character or not .
Our time was brief as my Grandmother became very ill and my Father wanted to move back ...see more
This home also belonged to our family The Hill family; My parents owned it for a few years. The house came with a goat named Billy who was very naughty and ate our vegetables from the veg garden .
I was 4 when we moved in and this photo was taken whilst we owned the house in 1965. I am now 61 !
It was a gorgeous house and we were always told as young children that Little Jack Horner had lived here once upon a time .
Lovely memories .
Louise Callander
I used to live in the Royal Standard pub as a child on Elm road when we moved in a car come straight through the window cannot believe it's now a funeral home
My grandparents lived on the corner of Browning Avenue and Washington Road. Visiting in the '60s and '70s I remember that there was an Air Raid Shelter in the back garden, which was basically a concrete shed. Were these in all the gardens? and do any of them still exist?
Annie amos married Alfred Townley who was killed in a bus accident 1915. Then married William J Winn Dec 1915, had two sons 1918 Gordon, 1919 William, both infant deaths. Can find no trace of him after 1920. Married Will evans 28 Sep 1924 they are in my living memory. Where did you get the name Bateson. I am Descended from Elizabeth Amos, Annie's elder half sister. Visited Caerau many times as a child with my mother Mary John. yours Bill Barton
My parents took me to Cruden Bay when I was born, that was in 1950. I still have the photograph, me in my pram ,with my dad at the bridge. Looking on was a well known old man, Willum Tait, he lived in the house opposite with Tan, who I remember well. This is the first I have known about this site, I only got told about it tonite, when I was down at the harbour, am just up for a few days on holiday. Have got ...see more
I remember each time we went into the shop we got the smell of the paraffin , even now if I smell it it reminds me of his shop.
ps you can keep the big DIY stores only things in packets staff who have no knowledge .
take care
On the left is Duncan Hamilton's Garage where as youngsters in the late 50's we would drool over the Jaguar Sports cars which they prepared and sold. My dad had SSL Engineering which was opposite the garage in Royston Road. To the right of Candy Corner was the barbers where we had our hair cut with a liberal sprinkle of Bay Rum!
I lived in seaton rd and went to wentworth primary school from 1954 till i left and went to dartford west secondary high school
I remember Stanford Dingley when the cottages existed opposite Dumbledore on Jennets hill, they used the water pump opposite. A fire destroyed the semi-detached house opposite where Casey Court now stands. There was a post office half way up Jennets Hill and one eventually at the bottom which used to be known as ‘Bradfield Farm’, you had to ring the bell to get in! 3 pubs, the Travellers Rest, The Boot and the ...see more
We were always good friends the closest...
Rosoland died quite young and I had moved from Croydon and settled where she had moved to years before. Hastings.
I was born in 2 Stretton Road East Croydon. stones throw from Davidson Road, then Infants and Seniors. I attended both. When I found out I was one day over the cut off for leaving in my 15 th year I got a transfer to Lancfranc F
Girls School and ...see more
My mother Eileen Lambert (nee Carter) was evacuated to Menheniot in August 1944. Here are her meories of that time:-
In August 1944, when it looked as though the Germans would soon be defeated, an evacuation plan was put into action because of the threat of V2 rockets. At the time, my school (Catford Central School) was billeted in Smarden (Kent) but, previous to that, I had been with my junior ...see more
My mother Eileen and her brother Ian Carter were evacuated to Great West Farm, Quethiock in 1940. Here are her memories of that time:-
On June 16th 1940 we were evacuated from Marvels Lane School, Grove Park, London SE12 to Cornwall. We left our train at a small place called St. Germans, which seemed a very odd place-name at the time. A coach took us to a tiny village called Quethiock, six miles ...see more
especially Kitty who went to Lavender hill school and moved away to Suffolk in 1967/68
I was born in Aldbrough in 1947.
We lived in a wooden chalet on the cliff top.
I remember running to meet my father (Les Blondell) coming home on the bus from his work in Hull . He worked at Rhubens curtain shop on the corner of Ferensway and Anlaby Road.
There was a farm behind the chalets. My Grandparents (Blondell) also had a chalet there but I think that maybe theirs was just used in the ...see more
Mine is not a memory but asking locals for their memories…..
In the field behind me is a cluster of trees, it’s a complete canopy of trees that let no light in below, lm interested in this for my horses and dogs… l’m told they used to release pheasants from there for the local shoot once a year…
I’d like to know the history of this cluster of trees as lm told it was an old pig ...see more
My parents owned fish and chip shops in Lowfield street. 100 and 297 Lowfield street. One was opposite the Cressy Arms
There was a cafe next door , the son was called Brian Penfol,d I think but not sure , there was a cycle shop a few doors down called Husseys , the son was called Colin
My brother worked at the Paper Mills and lived in Norman Road
My name was Glynne Bullen
Anyone remember any of this
Cwm Tylo, is very special to my maternal family. The land was owned by the Cistercian order. My 5th great grandfather Robert ap Cadwallader was born there in the 1680s.The family adopted the name Roberts and farmed there for at least 150 years. There is a slate memorial, in a nearby field commissioned by my 3rd great grandfather Robert Roberts, in the 1830s.It commemorates the terrible floods of that era. This ...see more
I was born in1967 at home at 25 Alpha Road Woking. Then moved to priors croft where I grew up . Played educated moved to Horsell then to Goldsworth Park. .
Left Woking altogether over 10 years ago. .
Still love the town and its history . Don't like what the council's done to the area tho. .
Reading some memories, I thought I would do, as spent a lot of my teenage years in the Elm Park area. I was one of the first pupils at the newly opened Abbs Cross Technical school in Abbs Cross Lane after passing my 11+ . Sadly I was not a model pupil by any means, after several detentions and truancy, spending days in Harrow Lodge Park, I was then expelled for setting off a firework in the maths teachers cupboard ...see more
Does anyone remember around 1977/78 "Dart Discount" drug store ran by Arthur and Diane Garner ?
They also had a second smaller shop up towards the Gladys Avenue roundabout, on the right hand side as you travel North.
Dart Discount was almost opposite Mark's and Spencer
I was born in Ramsgate in 1947. An only child, I lived with my parents in Grove Road. I have many happy memories of the town. Each night, as a young child, I used to go out with my father for "a little walk around" and we covered a lot of ground. Because he worked for the Council, my father got to know every nook and cranny of Ramsgate. I used to love the atmosphere created by the old gas lamps. We had one ...see more
Does anyone remember my mother who was born in 1932 so I expect went to this college 1943 on? She used to relate stories of great hardship (!) And being made to swim in the sea in winter!
My father Nigel Holme was a Welsh Fusilier he met my mother Margaret Barrell in Honiton while stationed there at Heathfield Barracks.. It would lovely to know if anybody out there knew my father who sadly passed away in 1993.