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We've lived in one of the Eastend Cottages by Eastend Farm for nearly 13 years, and would really love to find out some history and even more see any old photos. If anyone could post any on here or get in touch I would be really grateful.
When my mother and I used to cycle to Dartford we would leave our bikes at the fishing tackle shop - the charge was 2d. In 1957 I worked at J.C. Beadles in Lowfield Street until the Rootes Group closed the factory.
I also remember there was a slaughter house on (think it was) Blackwater Street, or it could have been Toad Lane. There was a pub across from it called Dusty Miller that was next door to Marsh's cafe. I too remember the shop on Blackwater Street where you could get studs of every shape to put onto your leather belt, I also think the old lady made cloggs. There was also a shop that started out on Oldham were you could ...see more
I used to live on Windsor Street. My name was Rita Meuse, my mum and dad were Sid and Irene. I used to go to the Tin School and had a brother called Cyril, he was in the cubs. I used to swing on the lampost with my friends. We went to Brennans for a hot vimto and one penny bar of cadburys. My dad had a works van that did not have any brakes, as the street was very steep we had to wait for him to get home with ...see more
I lived at no.4 Terrace. until 1956. I Have 5 brothers and sisters; Eira Gwyn, David Alan, Islwyn (passed away), Mena Gwyn, Einion Wyn a Glenys Wyn. My parents were Gwyn & Beryl Jones. They were well known as they sang together and in choirs. Margaret Pritchard, my late grandmother lived at no.5 Terrace with her 2 daughters, Roberta & Megan and Gwyn. Later moved to the Junction. Gareth Hughes of Carrog was ...see more
Can anyone remember Littlewoods Christmas Show? My dad used to compere them; he worked there till he took early retirement at 60 due to ill health. Sadly he died in 2004. Any infomation would be a great help. He was the maintenance manager at Coal Mill.
Does anyone remember Burtons? My dad used to work there, Jack Gregory, if anyone remembers him. They used to take workers kids to the pantomime every year, they were good times. My dad passed on in 2004. I am doing a family search so anything relevent woul be very helpful. Thank you, R Mather.
Does anyone remember Joseph Easthams Secondary School? I used to go there when we lived on Newearth Road, Walkden and I used to walk up Hilton Lane every morning to attend. There used to be a be a farm on the left near the train bridge; it used to feel like miles away.
I lived in Monks Rd, opposite the arboretum and near to the Church until 1955. I have very happy memories of Lincoln; the Cathedral where I was confirmed along with three other friends from Guides, the Monks Rd bowling ring park where friends and I used to gather for laughs, and South Park High School for Girls where the headmistress was a Miss Higgs who always had her dachshunds with her. I met ...see more
Where have the years gone? I remember walking to the chip shop in Spring Lane to get my chips and gherkins when I was pregnant (can't eat them now). Also the good old Post Office where my ex saw an advert for Labrador puppies, got one of course (so much cheaper to feed in those days). And does anyone remember the Saturday dances at the Memorial hall. Highlight of the week especially seeing who could ...see more
I worked as a Saturday boy in Arthur Gardiners in the mid 1970's. Across the road was a dry cleaners run by a guy called Rudi, who employed a beautiful blond girl called Lisa, who also worked Saturday. On the corner between the shop and Woolies was a green grocer who used to spend all day shouting out his prices. There was a cake shop called Garners where we used to get cream cakes to have with our ...see more
I apprenticed at Luton Airport, having been a 'spotter' as a boy, you could stand next to a five foot fence adjacent to the taxiway and almost touch the wings as they went past! No terror worries then. I joined Court Line, who were Autair before that. The plane on the apron is a Handley Page Herald, built at Hatfield (now an industrial estate). They also flew a DC3 and Airspeed Ambassadors (of Munich aircrash, Man United infamy).
I went to New Tredegar Technical school from 1962-67. It was a good time. I lived in Phillipstown and it was a 10 minute walk to school - fantastic. I remember the winter of 1963 and my satchel was ruined by the sleighing down the hill to school (the excuse I made to my parents was worthy of an Oscar). The Tech had good teachers (Mining Institute effect) and it was a very close community. It ...see more
I found my Granny on the 1911 census living in Wetley Rocks at the age of 3 years. Annie later married Roy Marsden and lived in Great Haywood. I think she was born in Wetley Rocks but I am not sure? Michelle
When my grandfather came down from Liverpool to visit me and my parents in '59, we went for a meal at the Dover Stage. It was one of the most delicious, satisfying meals I've ever had. Can still remember the sense of the taste now, even though I can't remember what the meal consisted of!
We moved to Flitwick at the end of 1986. The cottage we bought at the bottom of Kings Road used to be the old baptist chapel, which we were told was built in the late 1800's. When we purchased it, it already had been converted. We loved living in Flitwick, I worked for Tesco's for 15 years and saw quite a few changes over the years. My aunt used to teach at the old school probably in the early 1900's and ...see more
I was brought up in 3 Loudon Groves in the 1950's and would like to know if anybody has photographs they could share with me.
My brother used to tell a story about Green Lane; there was a ghost of a white dove that haunted Green Lane, if you saw the dove you would die! Feltwell was a lovely village I always remember St Nicholas Church, even though I was only at infant school, I always loved that church.
I lived at 112 Woodside View. Happy memories of the village school. Remember blackberry picking in Blackberry woods, also Plum Lane. I also remember walking past somewhere at night when we had been to the cinema and being scared of bats!
I used to be a minor monitor at the ABC and when the films had finished they gave me the posters and I hung them in my bedroom. I remember one very well it was a 2001 Space Odyssey. I am now 55 years old and recently saw one sold on tv for an awful lot of money! Ahhh..if only?
Stockport Road I remember well, like the bus from Denton to Stockport took this route and always had trouble climbing the hill into Bredbury. It was our Sunday walk route to Haughton Green to walk at the riverside,and have a drink of pop at a house-come-shop, I think it was called something parrot, not quite sure. It was the road I took to my first job at Sturtevant Engineering when I left I got a ...see more
I went to Bankfield School. I left in 1975 and my best friend was Alma Knowles. Don't know what became of Alma as we lost contact. I would love to see her again to catch up on old times, she may be married so I don't know how to find her. I have tried Bankfield it was the best school I went to. When I left the school was named Hollylodge - it's now another school...those were the days.
I am looking for any old photographs of the old Woolworths store as it was which is store number 745/1 which was situated at 1269 Greenford Road, Sudbury Hill, Middlesex - not far from Sudbury Hill underground station on the Piccadilly Line - this store is now an Iceland store. I would be grateful if anyone could help.
Hello ....I am trying to find Tony and Terry Smith; they are twins one dark, one fair, they had a sister as well. They lived in the Kilburn area in 60's ... Tony was perhaps a bit of a rascal who loved motorbikes and ended up in a borstal for a short period when I was born. As you can imagine
trying to trace a Smith is extremely difficult so any help or memories of this family would be ...see more
I write from Queensland, Australia in the hope that someone may read this and be able to provide further leads or information. My husband Bill has an original birth certificate dated 18th May 1948 - mother Elizabeth Theresa Coll, showing his place of birth to be Caterham Nursing Home. We have no further news of her. The unnamed father was rumoured to have been in a regiment from the Canadian Army that was ...see more
Yay! I've found my brother (Mike Targett) here! Yep, I'm Mike's brother and one of the Shorwell's Vicars' sons 1972-1980. Growing up in Shorwell was certainly idillic, carefree, and we were very spoilt in our surroundings. The locals were extremely supportive of us and gave my brother and I tremendous memories of which we will never forget. Local characters have been cemented into our ...see more
1950's to the 90's. My holidays in Alfriston began in the 50's through to 60's.We stayed with my auntie, Mabel Norman and uncle Bob. The place was called Winton Field Cottage, on the edge of the village. It took a while to get used to the quiet - what a lovely setting. All of our family used to visit aunt Mabels for holidays. She was a well liked member of the community; she used to help with births and deaths as ...see more
I was born in Princes Road (19) in 1953, right opposite Forest Edge in my Gran's attic room. My gran was Annie Surridge. The house has now been converted to a block of flats. I then, at the age of six months, moved to Hong Kong. We used to come back whenever the old man had leave between postings - we were an army family. My earliest memories were of fishing with a net for sticklebacks & ...see more
My great great grandmother, Eliza Hone, ran a Drapers Shop in Station Rd (later Connaught Avenue), after she was widowed from the late 1800's and she was included on 1901 & 1911Census's. My grandmother, Edith Victoria Adelaide Howe, was born there in 1897. I don't have any photos and only found out what I know from using Ancestry sites. I don't know what brought her to Frinton or when she left. Does anyone have any info please? Diane
My husband and I were both born in Marlborough. My husband is Peter Long and I believe he went to Grammar School with Julian West whose family owned the tea rooms. We both remember the fire as it was the year we were married; and that afterwards the Mop Fairs held in October had to re-position itself to accommodate fire engine access should another fire happen. I worked in Rawlings and Phillips corn merchants ...see more
My dad and uncle Peter, owned the garage; Wilson and Pickett Ltd. I went to the Grove school and Bramshott Court School. I llved in the bungalow next door, I was called Fran Wilson. We lived there from when I was 3 until I was 12 - we then moved to North Yorks, where we remain.
I am Rosemary Harris (now Davies) and I was born in Livingstone Road in 1943 and was christened at St Stephen’s Church. I attended Hounslow Town Infants and Juniors and then Bulstrode Girls School from 1955-1960, the Headmistress was Mrs Collins. As we lived opposite Inwood Park, it was the place where my sister and I always played in the playground that had swings, roundabouts, a slide and ...see more
Well, the story goes that there was a robbery from a jewellery shop in the town during the day, and in those days there were no mobile phones or walky talkies, only landline phones. My granddad was sent round to investgate, and on arrival was given a description of the man and was told that he was not a face seen regularly around the town, and had been seen runing in a ...see more
I lived at 2 Church Street, Cheadle, opposite the cemetary. My maiden name was Clarke; we lived there until 1948 and then moved to Oak Road. I went to Broadway School from 1946 to 1950 and am looking to see if anyone has any photographs of these years in school. I looked at the Broadway site, but none on there of me. Can anyone assist?
I have just come across your site and postcard of Newbigin Hornsea... The garage pictured on the left was owned by my grandad, Arther Sherwood (who was married to Doris). My dad, Peter Edwin Sherwood (their son) and his wife Pat took over the business in the 60's, I believe. My dad sold the business to Mr Presscott, a local builder, in 1973-74. We then, myself (Annette Jane Sherwood) daughter of Peter and Pat ...see more
I started in the Infant School in 1949, the year my family came to Corby - I was 6 years old. I can remember the huts with the old coke stoves. Each classroom had a partition and there was a stage in the last one where we used to have concerts. I remember being in a play at one of them. The headteacher was Sister Agatha- a tiny little woman whom I adored. I made my first communion there and we had a breakfast ...see more
Hi,does anyone have any stories,or pictures of Gray's? My mum (Jean Ward), attended and has fond memories of Marilyn Meehan, Beryl Allen, Jim Phillips, plus Ron and Audrey Potty among others. Thank you for any help. Ian.
I spent three idyllic years living at Marbury from 1949 to 1952, when my family emigrated to Australia.The hall was still there then and how well I remember the rhodedandrens lining the drive to the road. One memory I will never forget is the bus driver refusing to take us to school because of the heavy snow. Next day, we were lined up in front of the head Mr Green and asked why we didn't walk across the fields. Most ...see more
I was born in Lower Everleigh. I went to school at Everleigh, the headmistress was Mrs Underwood and the other teacher was Miss or Mrs Hawkins, I think. Families I remember in Lower Eve were the Townsends, Hinton, Pounds and Reids. I also remember going to school with Tracey, David and Deano.
We lived on Chatsworth Road and used to walk to the Bridgewater, or on to the Mersey by the Bridge pub for a swim and to fish! Not that we ever caught anything in the Mersey. We used to also go to the Ship canel by the swing bridge at Eccles or for a dare we would go to the locks near the Red Lion (end of the 23 route) and then face the walk beyond to the Penny Ferry. At the locks, we would walk along ...see more
I was married here in 1971 to Christine Govus, it was a wonderful day
I lived in West Lane, Allendale Cottages from 1962 to 1964 with my wife Irene (nee Williams from Tow Law) and daughter Janice, while I worked as a Fitter for the NCB at Bradley Shops in Leadgate. We emigrated to Canada from there in 1964.
I went to Childer Thornton school from 1953 to 1958ish, remember Kev Taylor and Gordon Littler from New Road, Kev went to sea and I dont know what happened to Gordon. Used to play in Beecofts farm upstairs in the hay and go fishing in the doubles I think it was, great times. Childer Thornton school used to do a nature walk in the woods by the school, I guess HSE wouldn`t allow such a thing now a days. A ...see more
My name is Neil Wellam, I went to Vincent 1955 to 1960. I remember Peter Holmes, Ray Furneaux, Ray Page, Roger Price, Rodney Richardson, Ken Lock, Mick Yates, Mick Taylor, Neil Christie. Girls I remember, Jenifer Cook, Susan Vass, Wendy Laing, June Thrower. My sister Loretta also went there, 2 years behind me. We lived in Weatherby Close. Great days ! I now live and work in America .
I remember Longton with great affection. I was manager of both the Focus Cinema in Market Street and the Royal on Anchor Road. When my boss came down on a weekly visit he would treat me to lunch at the Dorothy Cafe by the railway station. I always had steak and kidney pie which was delicious! The Royal became a bingo hall and I closed the Focus which was demolished for an office block. When they pulled down the ...see more
Well Mr Anthoney Simmonds was the owner of this pub,and for quite a considerable amount of time in my young life was my much "Loved Uncle Tony" he was wonderful.
My family lived at Stone View, Oving and my dad went to Oving School and was born in the bowling alley in Oving. I remember the afore mentioned names and the Butcher's Arm's public house which caught fire in the 60's. My father's name was John Webb, my brothers went to Oving School (Stephen, Clifford, and Martin Webb). I remember the Hovis advert for mini rolls made near the Black Boy public house in the 1964/65 called ...see more
A short distance north-west of Daventry is Braunston. The village lies on a hill overlooking the Grand Union Canal, one of Britain’s most famous inland waterways, and is a hub of the canal network. This photograph (D83014) shows the Welton end (just north of Daventry) of the long Braunston Tunnel, which was built to connect the Grand Union Canal from London to the Oxford Canal at Braunston. The house over ...see more
I went to Hyde Chaple School from 1953 to 1959 then to Leigh Street School from 1959 to 1964. I really enjoyed my school days. I would like to hear from anyone who attended the same schools for the same period as myself. I was called Sally Jones before I was married.
I was born in Aston Terrace in 1954 and remember running to the bridge to see the steam trains and also the big slag heap that my brothers used to slide down. I also remember the gas man that used to light the street gas lamps outside our house. We lived on the middle terrace; I remember their was the Davises, the Tomkins, the Jones's, and the Tipples. We moved to a new council estate in Aston about 1958. I then went ...see more
I was married at this church in July 1955; it is so so beautiful inside. I remember when I was still in school they found old paintings underneath the wall coverings and they are magnificent..
I lived on Rosedale Road and went to Aston Springwood School. I have good memories of my life there, my friends were; Josie Jones, Julie White, Linda Vardy, Norma Tomkins, Susan Edwards and Maralyn Davis. I moved to Cheshire in 1975 after getting married but my family still live around the Aston area. I have lots of happy memories of my life in Aston through the 60's & 70's.
I lived in Tidworth in Wylie Road from 1966 to early 1968. Of course we were an army family.
I remember some guys; Woody (Nigel Wood) & his elder brother Steven (also known as Woody).
There was Gilly & Crow who hailed from South Tidworth. I remember the cinema & the bowling alley. There was a local band known as 'The Poppy People' who had a regular gig at - if my memory serves me well ...see more
My great great grandfather John Cranstoun owned 15 Upper Broad Street from about 1850 to his death in 1890 and he is buried in St. Lawrence Church.
My family moved to the council estate in Elstree in the mid sixties. I used to play football on the pitch opposite Hill House, now sadly a new housing estate. Robert Stores for groceries, the aptly named Greens running the greengrocers who kept stuffed game birds in the window of his shop. The post office, now an Indian takeaway, was run by the Jacksons, the antique shop on the corner of ...see more
Can anyone help? I'm looking for my half-brother; his mum is called Beryl (nickname Jenny) her parents ran a pub in Maidstone and I think he was born in 1960. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Please get in touch if you have any information that will help me find my half-brother... Marnie
I was born in Church Cottage in April 1943. My parents were Mabel and Reg Gale. My grandparents Emma and Thomas lived in the same house. My grandfather went to live with my Uncle George and Auntie Doll in Tout after my grandmother sadly passed away. I have many good memories of my life growing up in the village with my brother Raymond and sister Veronica.
My best memories are of the lovely long summers ...see more
I was born in Preston Hospital, North Shields.in 1943. My first recollections as a child were of living on Rosehill Road known as Parker Terrace at No7. An old lady called Mrs Roper lived next door. Another family called Spencer lived in the big house close to us. In 1947 my dad, Jim Surtees, bought a haulage business from Bill Snowdon who was emigrating to South Africa. Rosehill Haulage was my dad's. He was also ...see more
We came to Shaftesbury from Singapore in 1955, when I was 4 and only spoke Malay. We rented part of the then rambling old house called Green Close, at the bottom of a hill. We then moved to 3 Lower Blandford Road and started school at the C of E Primary School, behind Holy Trinity Church. Either trudging past the boys Grammar School or going down Hawksdene Lane and cutting through Boyne's Meade to town; or ...see more
Did anyone know us? We lived in 7 Haven Green - my Fathers Name was Peter J. W. Benning , his Mum Edith Sophia (called Betty) Coupland (Benning) - Godman, - 31 Elers Road, Ealing, she lived there with her 2. husband Thomas Coupland. If you want to Pictures look here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4802680479139&set=t.1659905307&type=3&theater
Does anyone recall a hotel/guesthouse called Dunrovin in the 1950's in Trevone? My great grandmother had it built to give her spinster daughters a job and I am trying to find out where it would have been. If you have any further information I would be very grateful.
Did anyone know us? We lived in 7 Haven Green - my Fathers Name was Peter J. W. Benning , his Mum Edith Sophia (called Betty) Coupland (Benning) - Godman, - 31 Elers Road, Ealing, she lived there with her 2. husband Thomas Coupland. If you want to Pictures look here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4802680479139&set=t.1659905307&type=3&theater
I remember going to school, at Gad's Hill Place (Dickens House). It was for girls only and the class was ten of us, not like now! In the gardens they grew veg and fruit, the school had their own gardener who as I remember was quite grumpy - but no wonder with all us girlies!
I am interested to find the reason for Hector Webb being on this memorial. Hector was born in Potterspury, Towcester, Northants and does not appear to be related to my family who I have traced back to Moreton Morrell and Kineton starting in 1790. Was it a co-incidence and Hector was employed in the village? Any help would be appreciated.
I was born in Mitchell Street in 1952 we were a big family; 7 brothers and 2 sisters and things were very hard but everyone got along well with each other. I remember visiting my auntie Nan in the slap up top floor Henderson St above Aldos Store. The town was full of steelworks sadly all gone, now the glen was a great place for us as kids and you could play there all day until the Bargeddie boys would sneak up ...see more
I lived in Corby between the ages of 2 and 4. We lived in the brand new flats opposite the shops. There was a large car park and I have memories of the communal washing lines and going with mum to hang the washing. From the kitchen window mum would lift me up to look at the time on The Clock Tower. I remember crossing the zebra crossing and going into Woolworths to buy a sherbat dab or a little bag of sugared iced ...see more
I remember the War Memorial being opposite the cinema. When I visited Amesbury last week no one could remember it being there and it is not there now. Does anyone else remember it? I also remember the railway bridge where we all stood letting the steam from the trains blow over us. There was a huge park, well it seemed huge back then, near a cemetery. Are my memories correct I wonder? We lived on the RAF base at ...see more
I was born at Orchard Bakery Cottages which is beyond the trees to the right of this photo. Many generations of my family attended the school. My great Aunt May (Skilton) in the early 1900s; various of my Uncles (Pat & Geoff Skilton) and all my brothers; my sister and myself and then my own children. It was a sad day when the school closed. The Hill itself was the scene of many bad traffic accidents in ...see more
I remember Cliff and his brother Eric. I also remember his lovely sisters, we all mated about with the Wainwrights, Bomber Pearson, Alan Stott, the Cross brothers and Johnny Jackson. Bird nesting under the viaduct, going down to willow to the swing over the dyke...they were good days. Wombwell Bath dances were good times.
As a lad I can remember walking with `our gang` across from the High Street side of the ponds, under North Street bridge & walking out under the chain on the West Street end on the other side of the war memorial. We went there through most of that summer looking for newts & frogs. We also walked down under the bridge that led to the mill pool via the waterfall. Anyone else remember doing this as I can remember there were other kids doing what we were doing?
My family live at the top of Fife Street and always have. I really started to notice the town when I was about 7 (1968). The places I would go to when I was young (mainly with my mum) were;, The Beehive wool shop on the corner opposite The Palace Cinema, Reg Haddens bookshop on the corner of Dugdale Street, Dee Di's ice cream parlour in Queens Road, Home And Colonial supermarket in Abbey Street (with my gran,) ...see more
My Name is William Speirs, in the 1940's we moved from Bellshill Lanarkshire to live in Fishcross, Alloa, Clackmananshire, Scotland. This is a short story about when we were kids in Fishcross from about 1946 till I left in 1959. The people I played with, my schools, Fishcross, Sauchie, then Fore brae’s at the top of Sunnyside, the characters of that time and the things we used to do.
The Early Years ...see more
In 1925 the BBC chose Borough Hill near Daventry as the site for their new national radio transmitter, which would bring a ‘National’ service to everyone in Britain from one site. This was followed in 1932 by the opening of the Empire Station. The masts and aerials on Borough Hill wee a feature of the landscape for over 65 years, and Daventry continued to broadcast to the world until 1992, when the facility was ...see more
My grandparents, Horald and Edith Hughes, lived in Moston Cottage, Booley. Also living in the cottage were 3 of their sons; John, Douglas and Tony. My father, Basil, was no longer living at home. John and Douglas worked on the farm opposite, I think the farm belonged to the Boffeys. Although I was born in Shawbury I lived at that time in Wolverhampton, my sister and me always went to stay for the six weeks ...see more
One of Northampton’s now-lost buildings is seen on the right of this photograph, the old Notre Dame High School which was built in 1871 as a school and convent run by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. A former teacher at the school was believed to haunt the building. The ghost was only seen from the knees up, and it is believed that the floor level of the hall that she walked across had been raised since ...see more
I was born at no 2 Shop Row near the Philadelphia cricket club, and my grandad used
to take me to watch the cricket. Could anyone tell me where I could find old photographs
of Shop Row? Thank you, H.Robson
Yes, you are well remembered in Robertsbridge; you lived the first time at 10 Bishops Lane, and your then neighbour was Mr and Mrs R Davis. They had three sons and one daughter; Richard, Maxine, Stephen, and Colin. Sadly, Mr Davis died in 1975, and Maxine died in 2000. Mrs Davis, known as Peggy, remarried in 1977 and still lives locally, her married name is Mrs Woodgate.
Her eldest son ...see more
I grew up in Ellesmere Port. My parents, me, my brother and sister migrated to Australia in 1960. I used to go to MIlton Road Primary School. I lived in St. Andrews Road and I would love to know if these locations still exist. I have fond memories of growing up there .
Hello John, I was one of your dad's paper boys. I can't remember what year as I also delivered for Billy Evans, Stuart and Linda's dad. Just down the road in our village, if you remember not only that, but I delivered for Chaplins on streets corner..by Gordon Owen's dad's taxis...happy days. The Wynott bike shop by the canal bridge, old Mr Wollaston's barbers, Percy Claridge, Val's cafe...god I wish I hadn't ...see more
Whilst visiting an elderly uncle in Kent about five years ago, he chanced to show me some old family photographs. Having a very accute memory I noticed a photograph of a man who I called uncle Bill, at his farm after a wedding in Grantham about 1945. The uncle in Kent said he had no memory of this uncle. I was three years old and living with my parents in Thames Ditton in Surrey when it was ...see more