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I remember visiting my Great Aunty Kit who lived in the old school house, I think it was Bekesbourne, but it could have been Littlebourne (her husband had fallen on train tracks during the war and died). The school room was off-limits, but she showed my sister and I once and we were spooked by the old fashioned desks in rows, and the darkness of the room. While the adults were talking we would be allowed to ...see more
Michael and Jimmy. I grew up in no1 Springfield Villa, next to Don and Vera and opposite Barry and Andrea. I have many happy memories of growing up there. I married in 91 at Dacre Church and my 4 children were christened there. I was gutted when my parents left there for Baggy.
I used to sit and make shell animals with Vera!
Michael, I used to take you out in your pram.
How lovely to hear about his little area of Dacre. (My surname was Carr)
This was a Boys Grammar School. Their uniform was a cap and blazer with broad black and dark red stripes.
During the war a number of the large houses in Frognal were evacuated by their wealthy owners, "For The Duration". Their overgrown gardens, though not easily accessible, became 'Adventure Playgrounds" and their fruit trees a source of 'scrumping', for local local children.
Having lived from 1938 to 1959 in the adjacent Lymington Road, which backs onto the Richmond-Broad Street Line serving this station and having passed it daily to and from my way to school/work, I would question classifying it as "Swiss Cottage", which is 10 minutes walk further east.
However, I can tell you that the newspaper seller, on the right of the entrance, was known to us as ...see more
My family all come from around Newark but my grandma on my mother's side lived in Edwinstowe and worked on her husband's farm. I recall visiting the farm on warm Sunday afternoons in my dad's car. I would go off exploring the farm on my own and watching the lad, of a similar age, milking the cows. I would be around 7/8 years old.
Afterwards we would all go to the forest and play cricket for hours. Happy days.
Am trying to piece together my life while in England. I was sent to some kind of institution when I was a few months old, probably in 1945/46. I believe that place was in the North of England. Then my mother picked me up and took me to Southall, and what I'm trying to remember is the name of the street in Southall that I spent my next year or so before being put into childrens homes in ...see more
My mum and dad owned York House Cafe and shop which was situated just a few yards to the right of where this picture was taken from. I have many happy memories of growing up in Weybridge. (I would have been 9 when this picture was taken) I originally went to St. James school, just off Baker Street but moved to Wallop School just down the bottom of Hanger Hill. We eventually moved in 1960 to Chilham in Kent. I ...see more
What a joy to read all the memories. I lived in the terrace houses down the side of the Welfare, leaving when I was 12 to live in the new Coal Board estate. All my childhood was spent playing down Green Lane on the pit stacks, walking round Ackton and sometimes venturing up to Purston Park. We used to go down and paddle in the 'reser' down even though there were sometimes the odd dumped dead dog in there! Cannot ...see more
My mother and father had their honeymoon in Llanddulas. It was the favourite camping place for the company of the Boys' Brigade attached to our church in Denton, near Manchester.
My first memory of this place was in 1943; yes during World War II.
I was camping in the family tent, with my mother and father during the war when, during the night the sirens sounded. Llanddulas was the main ...see more
I have an old wristwatch which belonged to my great uncle, which was bought by the people of Abergwynfi, presented to rifleman Arthur Hanford on being awarded the military medal 1914.
Kilbirnie man, James Fairly, better known as JIMMY went on a camping holiday with four others to Fort William. We had car trouble on the way and had to pay the cost of that. This left us with reduced spending power and on the way home we were running low on petrol. Jimmy brought out from the boot of the car a bottle of whiskey he had bought as a present. Jimmy poured the whisky into the petrol tank and to our ...see more
I knew Patrick Mackay well, he was 2 years older than me when we attended York Road School together. I have passed on everything I remember to the researcher.
My name is Iain McNab, my family and I enjoyed lovely summer holidays at my grandfather's (John Rollo) house the old manse at Foss. I know that there was a tragic accident that befell the young boy that lived there before my grandfather and used to feel that the boy was still in the house watching my self and my sister. I never felt scared, just aware of something, nobody else felt it. It didn't spoil the holidays, I just loved the place, plenty of room to run around . Happy days.
I was born in Lymington Rd, West Hampstead. My dad was employed by the council. I later worked for Fotoco, Finchley Rd and R.Fox, Hampstead, went on to be a chauffeur, a bus driver, and an ambulance driver. I also worked at Bennetts in Oxford St, John Cooper, I used to go out for pint or 2 on Finchley Rd and the West End, does anyone know where Mike the Flower moved to as he was an old mate. His family had a flower stall outside Finchley Rd tube station - he lived down Rosemont Rd.
Hello, I lived in West HAMPSTEAD from 1941 to 1970. I now live in Yorkshire. I am looking for some old mates from that time they are - David Jacobs from Rundu Rd , Bill Taylor of Clermonte Rd, John of Lymington Rd, Mike the flower, Rosemont Rd.
Hello, I was just taking a look online at the churches etc in Goldenhill. My late father, James - Jim to many - was buried in St Johns graveyard way back in 1961, hence the interest. Much to my surprise, I saw a posting by my cousin Frank so sent him a little message. Memories of Goldenhill are mixed, my mother's family hailed from that area, my father was from Glasgow. Uncle George, my mother's ...see more
I really don't know where to start as I feel very emotional about the beautiful little village that 'Penrhyn' was, all those years ago. The very centre with the war memorial, the pump where everyone had to go to fetch their water, the smithy, and the one storey whitewashed dwellings should have been preserved; it was unique as I saw it. My late father, David (Dafydd) John Edwards lived there with his ...see more
Porch Cottage must be called the happy house because as three little girls from a chemical town in the North West we also spent our summers there......of course we are now aged 58, 61 and 63 years old but we recently went back down to visit the cottage - our youngest sister flew in from Tampa, Florida, where she now lives and we took lots of pictures......a few tears were shed ...see more
Does anyone remember a young lady called Susan Cole who lived with her family on Priestfields Ave/Rd, Rochester. Sue was good friends with my brother, Alan Turner, in the 60's; they met on holiday in Broadstairs and remained in contact for a number of years. We wondered if she or any of her family still lived in the area or if anyone has any information?
My memory of Northfield is hearing that my Aunt Alice lived there. She, my Uncle Jack, her husband and children John, Pat and Joyce, lived in Tedstone Road, Harbourn. I saw Joyce and Pat last in 1983 at my mum's funeral. I would love to hear from any of them. Their surname is Foreman. My uncle and his son, John, worked at Longbridge car factory. Alice and my mum were sisters. If anyone reads this and know them, please add a comment.
Hi there, I wonder if anyone remembers a coffe house in Woolwich - all the solders on demob pinned their shoulder flashes on the wall - it was coverd in them. We were stationed at Connaught Baracks. It was said to be Flo Nightingale place that she trianed her nurses. The Hexagon bulding at the end of Grand Depot Road and Herbert Road was the mortuary. We were no 1 War Office Signal Squadron, any contact welcome, Ken.
I was born at Low Westwood, a small mining village in the North East of England in 1955 – well, when I say I was born there, that’s not entirely true. Unlike today, children were born at home not in hospital and I was actually born in my Gran’s spare bedroom in the nearby market town of Consett at 2.00 one October Wednesday afternoon. The only “medical” intervention was ...see more
I remember playing for Netley Boys Club - the team was run by Ernie Chambers and Lou Jones, RIP both of you. They were amazing and we had a good team; Chris Queen in goal, he had trials with Newcastle United, his big brother Bob, George Jones, Lou's son, was Captain, Kevin Crotty, Arthur Chambers, Roy Kinge who married my sister in law, Chippy Woods. Our resident photographer Ken Skinner (still best friends).
We ...see more
Hi, there are so many memories. School friends Ann Warren, Pamela Davies, Desmond Hill, Julian Cook. Browns tobacconists - I can still smell it. I was born in High St. My grandparents, Mr & Mrs T Gwilliam lived in ALEXANDRA Rd. My cousins June and Jill Gwilliam still live in Six Bells but we lost touch. Would love to hear from anyone who remembers, Marilyn Goode
Hi, I was born in 1945 at 9a Rectory Road, Gateshead. I was adopted 6 weeks later by Edna and Jack Dixon. My name then was Joy Dixon. I attended Brighton Road school for 10 years. I left the the north when I was 19 and have lived in Nottingham ever since. Please get in touch if anyone remembers me. I have been married 49 years and have 3 sons in their 40s. We moved to 118 Claremont Street when I was ...see more
fond memories, my school was at the bottom of the Avenue
My family, that is my mum and dad and two sisters, went to Hele Bay Hotel for our summer holidays for three years, arriving at Ilfracombe on the Alantic Coast Express from Waterloo. Great holidays when you are a young lad, and walking over the Torrs to Ilfracombe. Fond memories from all those years ago. I am now 82 years of age and this is a new thing for me, cheers.
I would luv to see any photographs of the street parties for Steeley Lane, especially those taken in and on the front of the.RAILWAY PUB! thanx to anyone who who could help!
I lived in Burham probably 1948 to mid fifties. Does anyone remember the old camp site over the hill at the crossroads of Church St. & Court Rd.
At these crossroads stood 17 big elm trees, the camp was setup for displaced people with Nissan huts & some brick buildings, it was an old Army camp as it still had the old gun sites there, we used to play in them & catch newts in the underground shelters.
Does anyone have any photos of this? if so can they please share?
Thanks, Max
When I was going out with my now husband of over fourty eight years, in the early sixties, we used to go to the Parrot pub and we thought it was by the river? We have been back a few times and it is no longer by the river? There is a lot of new office buildings close to the river so we are confused and wondered if anyone else has memories of this. We met while working at Hugh Wyllie in Guildford and that building is ...see more
Must have been in the early 1970s when I allowed myself to be roped in as an instructor, along with Charles Sheldrick, of Charlwoods Road, and three others; to my shame, I can't properly remember their names. One was a plumber who lived in Charlwoods Road (first house on the left coming out of Kennedy Avenue); His surname may have been Westfield, or Westlake. Then there was an ...see more
How exciting it was to find the Reference to Elm Farm. As a boy I grew up on Elm Farm and remember very fondly collecting eggs up in the hay barn & milking the cows. Mrs Tompkins was my mum, selling eggs & produce. I can still smell the tractor fumes when we were harvesting hay. I also had a lot of fun going down to the duck pond. I had gone to Bletchley Primary School.
Regards Bruce
I lived with my parents in the right hand side of the white house shown above (almost opposite the W & D bus station) from 1938-57. The house to the left with a hedge around the door was a small private girls school in my early memories
As the war built up we saw servicemen and women, our own, and from many countries we had previously only read about. I saw Queen Mary, having ...see more
I remember Fred and Jack Fryer, and a son if I remember correctly who went in the navy. I would often wait on the beach at night beside their lantern which would guide them back to shore after an evenings fishing.
Did Jack move to Felixstowe? I stayed with my grandparents in Hill House, their name was Gunthorpe. I played in the woods with my bows and arrows: dived through the waves: collected live .303 rounds ...see more
My father, Syd Cheale, was an evangelist with the European Christian Mission and we cared for many children and teenagers at Farleigh Dene in Cliddesden, Basingstoke. Dad and Mum told them about the Bible and Christianity. My parents prayed for many years for a revival in the Churches and a Charismatic Revival began in our very home there in Cliddesden in the 1960s. It was the start of the Charismatic ...see more
My mother as a young girl, together with her sister, were orphaned and found a home by a Liverpool society at Llanfairfechan. She remembered a plaque on the wall of the home to the young men who had died during the great war. She remembered the Balmoral Hotel as being very luxurious place to stay and the near tragedy of a group of Jewish children who came on holiday to Llanfairfechan, they mistook the ...see more
Hi, my surname was Brooker then when I attended like yourselves - was good memories. Sr Ita and Sr Shelia were my favourites I must admit. I went to the school reunion - it was good to catch up with a lot people I didn't even know, but was good. Its now an old peoples home - hope they are all happy there like we once were. If Marie Bedwell reads this, it be great to catch up with you after all these years.
This view of A La Ronde is little changed from 2013 - perhaps less greenery growing up the walls and better formal flower bed planting near the entrance. What made the visit special for me was being encouraged to play their grand piano. Its an unusual one made around 1870 by the Gebruder Knake workshop of Munster, Germany. The room stewards at this National Trust property are friendly and helpful and when they ...see more
I must have been lying in my pram as my oldest memory is of seeing a large formation of planes flying overhead.
Some years later, it must have been a very hot summer's day, a convoy of trucks passed by with the remains of crashed planes on them. We saw them out of the open door of primary 2 as they drove along Lochwinnoch Road towards the Cross.
I've many other memories of the Village I was born in and grew up in.
l remember the pit tubs running under the houses to the colliery where my dad worked down the mines, and when we used to chuck his snap over to him when the tub ran past. Also remember the bleak cold winters when it snowed and we had to dig our way out of the snow to get out of the front door. Also to get to the toilets, which were outside in the yard - some times it was that cold in there, ...see more
We moved to collyhurst in the 60's I lived at 6 Central Drive, my name then was Wilds. I went to St Malachy's school, my teacher was Miss Hugh's. I also remember Miss Le-hey and Sister Madeleine. When I was about 13/14 I helped behind the counter at Dobsons. My parents were Mary and Jimmy, my sister Linda and brothers Tommy and John. I remember Rafflo the ice-cream man, Bristow the coal man, Fanny ...see more
A cracking wee place, born in Edingburgh, but used to visit a pal of my brother's Richard (Tich Duncan) his sister Scoots is still in the village, I liked nitten so much I bought a house there?, 13 years now, my kids have all grown up here, great days, anyone should think about a visit, great museum and a cracking wee place.
I lived in Hickman Road and went to Montgomery St School from1945 to 1951, if anyone remembers me please phone 01527 757017 or 07813499543. Annette Tomlinson now Finn Mr Issacs was the headmaster then, I also remember Mr Stone and Mr Roycroft I would really like to catch up
My grandfather, John Green, lived in Market Drayton and was a conjuror, entertainer, guitarist, ventriloquist and artist. My grandmother was Annie Caroline Green and they had 7 children. Does anyone have any memories of the family.
Yes the bakers was Parkers, but before that it was called "Fowlers" and that name was in the mosaic floor in their doorway. They used to do lovely cream cakes.
My mum who had moved to Southall in 1932, went to Western Road School just round the corner from Derley Road where she lived. I followed in her footsteps and also went to Western Road School, but that was after it amalgamated with Featherstone Secondary ...see more
My name in the sixties was Marilyn Pooley, I lived at St Blazey and went to Fowey School. I have been raising my family for the last 40 years and now fancy looking back at my younger days. One of the things I would like to do is get hold of some copies of my school photos. I'm very new at this computer thing, so hope this reaches the right places. I'm sure there must be other people out ...see more
Hi, I have been looking for a site like this so I could look back at Pinehurst. I was the longest serving boy at the home - went in at 8 and came out at 16. 1979 was when I started a good life there. I have so many great memories of Pinehurst and all the boys and staff, it would be great to catch up with some of them and re-live the good old days. I did go back to get some photos of the house only to find that it ...see more
I am trying to find some photographs and/or information re the dairy manager's house in Shurnhold, I believe it was a Co-Op dairy and that the house was not only the manager's accommodation but also partly a shop. Above the main entrance (front door) is the date 1886, although I believe that the original part of the building is older. Any information or photos at all would be gratefully received, thanks in advance.
We lived in Meadfield Road about that time and our house caught fire, just before Christmas 1983.
Hi Jane
Are your a sister of James? (or Jimmy Lawrence).
He used to live in Colney Road, just around the corner from where I lived in the late 1950s to mid 1960s.
I remember playing on our pogo sticks, and seeing who could do the most "jumps"!!.
Great fun. I also remember going around to his house and playing in his back garden.
I seem to also remember he was related to a Graham Dillaway? He lived in the next road to Mildred Close.
Was this used by Mrs Cobb who ran the Brownies in Bedford to bring children for a weeks holiday during the summer holidays? Any I formation on this building please thanks.
Mrs Cobb from Bedford would bring children for a weeks holiday during the summer holidays. They stayed in a large white building on a corner (there was a dairy farm across the road), it was like a community hall, maybe it was used by the Brownies or something! It was walking distance to the beach. They would walk along a long lane down to the beach. I am not 100% sure of the details but if anyone has any memories of this or information I would be grateful, thanks.
I started at Kettering Tyres, Wellingborough, in 1979 after leaving school. I loved that job, worked with Peter. They had an old petrol pump outside where the bosses used to fill their Jags, as head office was over the road was taken over by tsGB not the same.
I used to live in Lawrie Park Gardens from 1955 until 1962 and the local youngsters used to congregate at the big tree on the roundabout at the end of Lawrie Park Avenue. At times there were around 10-15 of us all sitting chatting and just hanging out there. Some of the kids came from Chulsa Road flats and some from Sydenham itself. The ones I remember the most were Terry Maidment, John Unwin, Dave Basset, ...see more
I lived in Thornton Rd, went to school at Old Cenral, Camp Rd, used to walk passed the pond to school, in the thick smog's we would have got lost if we didn't hold hands. My friends and I had many happy years playing on the common. In 1954, aged 11, I went to Queens Road school. At 15 I started work at Charles the hairdressers in St Georges Rd. In 1960 my mum went to manage my uncle's guest house in ...see more
I was born in 1954 at home in George Street, Low Valley, in what was known as Company Row, presumably as it was built my mine-owners to house their workers.
It was a two up two down terrace next to the "entry" where people could gain entry to the shared backyard. We had an outside toilet, no running hot water, no electricity, gas lights and coal fires.
Hardly the good old days in ...see more
Roman Road, Mountnessing. My great grandfather, John Waller, lived in one of the cottages just down from the George & Dragon pub. I believe it is now an Indian, and at one time was a restaurant. He died in the 60s aged about 95 and he told my dad at the age of 92 that he was getting old as he could not climb up his apple trees anymore! He had electricity finally put into the cottage in 1965, just so as he could ...see more
Me and that lampost know each other quite well, my dad and I were walking towards Cob's Corner to catch the No 12 bus home from having our hair cut at Mr Davy's, the Cypriot barbers at the bottom of the high street. For what ever the reason, I was walking and looking the wrong way - my dad called just to late and "smack" there it was. He fell about laughing - I just balled. My mum had more sympathy. This huge lump was just made to look biger with my short hair.
Wayne
12 years ago, I found a new family that I didn't know I had, including a half sister!
My gran had died at only 32 in Carlisle and my grandad moved to Grangemouth when he married his second wife. I thought that my dad was Scottish until then, as he talked about Grangemouth a lot (he died when I was aged 10 so can't remember too much). He said that his stepmother wasn't nice to him and his brothers, so ...see more
We moved here from Coventry in about 1956-1957, it was a 22 foot mobile home. We met Jack and Rene Linford who had an adopted daughter, Carol Linford, same age as me. "Uncle " Jack as I called him used to take us to school in Bulkington. They had a gorgeous bungalow nr the Junction of Marston Lane. Their daughter died aged only 21 there in about 1972 . He had an engineering business in Nuneaton. They ...see more
Hello. I did not live in Grangetown but loved the bus ride through it on the way to Redcar for a day out. Leaving South Bank on the right hand side of the road there was a row of houses with grassy front gardens and long paths leading up to the front door. As we lived in a row house with a pavement front and a back yard, I always envied the people their `country homes`. Funny how things are through a child`s eyes. ...see more
Another thing that I remember was bath night. Notice I said night and not nights!!
We had a tin bath which had to be filled up by boiling kettles and saucepans. My young brother would go in first, then me, after me was mummy, and last was daddy!! What ever would health and safety have to say about that today!! We were, however, one of the first houses in our street to have an inside toilet and ...see more
I had the perfect Job for me when I was 10. John (Jacky) Robinson had me working for him on the horse and cart. Fridays and Saturdays you could hear us walking the streets of Easington - our famous yell was "ANY STICKS OR LOGS MISSUS ORAYELUMBA". Sundays would be pop day "ANY POP TODAY MISSUS". I still remember the time we came back from a run down south and we were turning at the Black Diamond ...see more
My dad was born in 1909 in Flamborough. This photo is significant to me because, as a young man, my dad helped to install the winding equipment in the old winding shed on the left hand side of this picture. This photo has changed in as much as there are now not as many boats based in Flamborough. Sadly there is no lifeboat stationed at North Landing in the Lifeboat Station but the building is still ...see more
When I was a child my parents use to take my sister and I to Bridlington on the train from Hull for 2 weeks holiday a year. It was magic land to us. My dad was born and brought up in Flamborough but moved to live in Hull during the war years. So our holidays in Bridlington were very much a part of our lives during our formative years. We use to play on the sands with our bucket and spades. ...see more
I was born in 1934 and lived on the Stratford Road on the hill above the College Road Pub. I went to College Road School from 1939 to 1949 and wonder if anyone remembers me. I also went to the Springfield Ballroom. We lived opposite the bungalows. I moved to Scotland in 1962.
Cheers.
Sheila Beck
I have fond memories of Bilton Road. I was born at west Middlesex hospital but lived at 172 Bilton Road between 1955 and 1966. We used to make a guy every year for Guy Fawkes night and stand outside Martins newsagents collecting, as soon as we got anything we would go in and buy fireworks. Also I remember the Home and Colonial Stores with its green and cream marble floor and counters. My mother, Maureen, was a nurse ...see more
Hello. My dad, Horace Jenkins, worked as a coach lettering painter for British Rail in Thornaby for most of his life. He died at 17 The Larches, Teesville in 1953 at the age of 46. He was the best lettering painter in the yard. When one of the Royal family were visiting Darlington station my dad was chosen to go to the station to have the trains looking their best. He took great pride in his ...see more
Hello. My grandparents and family lived at No 5 Whitehall Street opposite from West Park. The houses were originally `well to do` and had been transformed into upper and lower flats. The fronts had bay windows. I remember the street seemed quite steep to me as a child and had a railing down at the bottom where the street crossed Stanhope Road. My grandfather was Robert William Futers who died in 1950. My two ...see more
I'm not sure which of the wooden houses I lived in with my dad, Albert Croft and mum Clara Croft. I have a pic with me on my dad's bike and another cleaning the hens out and later getting the eggs, I was only 2 or 3. But I think it was this one as there was a pathway through the edge to the bungalow (Shangri-La, in the left background) that my dad built with his dad and uncles. Later, in ...see more
I started my musical career at the Leas Cliff Hall. Worked in Murdoch's music shop at 15 yrs. I was on the beach with mother during WW1 when Tontine Street was bombed - amazing because I asked Mum to stay longer or we could have been one of the 29 casualties.
I was born in Wallace Street, Dumbarton, August 13th 1959 in my grandparent's (Andrew and Mabel Aitken) house named "Bourtree". My other grandparents (Jim and Margaret Brash) lived directly across the road in their house named "Cloughfin". My dad, Mitchell Aitken, a local footballer of some repute having played for Vale of Leven and Shettleston, having married my mum, Irene Aitken (nee Brash) moved in with ...see more
A Kilbirnie woman, over on holiday from Boston, decided to go to a farm day out. Mrs Liz Stewart was 92 at the time, Liz was very capable in dealing with the public and she was used to horses. Liz made a bee line to the Clydesdale horses and stroked them on the nose. An attendant shouted at Liz in front of everyone, don't touch the horses madam, how would you like to be stroked by thousands of people every summer. ...see more
My mum, Margaret Lane, worked at Red Lion Pub lunchtime shifts cooking in the kitchen and would take me and my younger brother Martin there with her during school holidays. I remember the dumb waiter going up and down from the kitchen to the bar with cooked food, not entirely sure of the year, but this was one of my early memories so I was probably about 5 or 6 and remember being spoilt by the landlords.
As children, my two brothers and I would go to visit Nannan (my paternal grandmother) at Wells Bottom Farm, near Sowerby Bridge, Ripponden. We would stop at the Blue Bell Inn for a drink of pop, the highlight of the long car ride from Oldham. When I look up her name - Gaukroger, I see that there was many of that name in and around there.
Wells Bottom Farm, had the main house two cottages attached and a dark old ...see more
Most of my life was spent in Stourbridge although I came from Amblecote and went to school in Wordsley. Mom used to take me to Mary Stevens Park as I took my son in later years. I used to love the swingboat seesaw and the roundabout where you had to hang on. There was also a paddling pool that was filled in hot weather as most parks had then. It probably wasn't hygienic but we loved it. It ...see more
Born in the front room on Belgrave Road in 1953, I have fond memories of visiting my grandad and grandma in their little house on Peel Street. A typical two up, two down.
The front step would be pumiced bright yellow every morning and the house would smell of snuff. There was a long dark wool blanket hung behind the front door to keep the cold out, and pinned back in summer. In the back was a sink to wash ...see more
We were student nurses at Treloars from Sept 56 to Sept 58. We have fond memories of our time at Treloars and we would love to hear from anyone from that set. Jenny "Chis" Wining (nee Christoffel) Mary Blake (nee Harris)
We lived in Knowles Hill Cres as young parents with a baby girl and we used to go shopping in Safeways on a Friday . We went to the toy shop on my daughters 4th birthday to buy her a doll but came home with a trainset. We had her photo taken with santa in Chiesmans but we left Lewisham in 1969.
I was born in the Witton end of Handsworth, so I relate more to Aston really. Albert Road School as a little girl, I still have a group picture of Class 2.1932. Canterbury Road Girl's School at 11 and Aston Commercial School in wartime. Evacuation split the school, then a bomb in front of the Ettington Road Fire Station closed the school. I have never seen such a huge hole that bomb dug, I've always compared it to ...see more