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My parents were friends with Jimmy and Blanche Greer,the owners of The Chocolate Box sweet shop, in Emsworth in the 50's. We lived in Windsor but we used to meet up with Jimmy and Blanche and their daughter Margeret at Lazalea Holiday Camp in Nutbourne every summer.
My Dad was born in Lowestoft in 1921 and went to Roman Hills Boys school. His name is William Thomas Pritchard and he lives in Edinburgh, aged 94. He started on the trawlers in 1935 when he was just 14yrs old.
This area played a large part in my early life in the late 40s - early 50s. I lived nearby till I was 10yrs old and then I still walked by to go to Moor Lane Junior mixed school and to Brownies on a Friday evening.
We would meet Brown Owl from the station and walk passed these shops, then the open ground where there were lots of hawthorn bushes and a woodyard. Here Dad would buy timber and the rope and hooks for my ...see more
I remember every summer holidays staying in a caravan with my brothers and sisters at our dads builders merchants.
Every day we would go to the triangle and get fresh baked bread from garners and try not to eat it on the way back and avoid the cars coming down the ramp from sainsburys..it was a fun time..and we used to go to a shop up the road and get milkshakes but i cant remember the name..
My name is Lesley I lived at 120 Houseland rd mottingham prefabs with my parents and 2 brothers and a sister , when i was six myself brother 18months older than me , my sister 5 years older slept in one bed while my mum & dad & baby brother slept in the other bedroom , left when i was ten & moved to St Pauls cray , Loved the place , We could and did walk through someones garden to ...see more
My lasting memory of Theydon is the walk from the station to my aunts house which backed on to the railway line. This was near the end of the war I think but I clearly remember a field full of the remains of downed aircraft . To me it looked like hundreds but I was quite young at the time. I remember seeing the swastikas of the German planes and the markings of both US and British
planes. I would love ...see more
I think this was the convalescent home I was sent to in 1947 when I was 5 years old. My family referred to it as "Charnwood" which is confusing me. The picture is vaguely familiar.though.
I was very unhappy there and the nursing staff and matron seemed heartless and stupid! I was sent there because I had measles and whooping cough in quick succession. I remember the Matron coming in the middle of ...see more
Anyone remember this shop in Willington Quay?
My parents ran the shop before I was born in 1953 and I'm intrigued to know of any stories related to it....
Sadly after 47 years for me 52 for my middle brother and 54 for my eldest brother
We say goodbye to Amwell .
One of my fondest memory is when I was about 3\4 years old hay making with my dad my mother and my brothers . collecting the cut grass of the river bank along Amwell Lane My father worked for the Metropolitan Water Board as it was then. So had permission to take it.. loading it up on to the cart and ...see more
That road surface is still there to this day, lol. #councilresurfacetheroad.
I used to live in Meadow Place can any one tell me any history about these sweet cottages ? we think they were built 1820.
Hi, I too attended The Park School and remember Miss Napier. I also remember Miss Wright ~ P.E.."Gabby Haynes" ~Music.I left in 1958. I was then Carol Roden. Any one else remember ?
The cinema on the right was the venue for our Saturday morning adventures. 3d to get in, all sweets half normal price.
Next to the cinema is the hardware store.
Further up on the left is the old toyshop and newsagents ( I used to do a paper round for them).
Finally, about half way up on the right is the street that leads to the park.
This development included a Coop Department store and a bookshop that I frequented in my teenage years. The Coop skirted around the corner into Stafford Street and two of the original terraced houses on that street were occupied by the Woolrich family of four sisters and six brothers. The two up and two down houses had no bathrooms and lit by gaslight. I would lovevto track down photos of Stafford St as it was.
I remeber on a Saturday evening we would walk from grange street to stapenhill to visit my grandma, and we would stop at the Elms for cherry pop and a packet of crisps in the garden...........Oh Happy Days
EPNBC development and planning departments should be ashamed at letting 'what was then’ turn into 'what is now’ it’s an absolute disgrace and we are supposed to have progressed.
The car with the upright radiator parked in front of Franklands, with a small Austin van alongside was my fathers Daimler, it was a dark blue in colour and had what today are called suicide door's for they all opened backwards unlike today's cars (2015)
Peter Blackburn, formerly Craven Arms Hotel, Giggleswick
This early picture of Settle shows the River Ribble as it bypasses the South/West of the actual town, the Bridge in the middle left carries the A65 trunk road which then ran through the very center of Settle, and was the main route between Leeds , Skipton, Settle and on to Lancaster and Kendal, the area to the bottom left are farmers Fields , you can pick out the footpath which still exists today, the Ribble at ...see more
My name is Arhur Brown and I moved to Potters Bar from Tottenham when i was about eight years old along with Mum Doris Dad Arthur and sisters Sylvia and Jeanette and two years later my brother Stephen arrived on the scene.I went to Oakmere School where my teacher was MR Warren he was a brilliant teacher and instilled in me a love of history which i still have today.i then went to Mount Grace lower school ...see more
WENT TO THIS UP TO 1950
In old age, I like to remember my school days at Kennylands Camp. It was the first to be used for evacuation and I was in the first intake. It was a delightful spot and within walking distance of a lot of Thames villages and towns. It was not intended to be occupied in the winter and the central heating was not adequate for the severe winters we endured. Some of the masters organised parties to go for brisk walks ...see more
I was living at the time at the top of what was called Chalk Pit Avenue, then an unmade and often muddy road in bad weather, at the bottom of the garden was a field and across the field was a fairly large house with what must have been a glass covered veranda as in the sunshine it shone a beautiful pinkish colour.
My mother and I and one of our neighbours used to spend lots of time up in the lovely ...see more
I was born in 1942, and most of my hoidays as a child were spent in Fleetwood.
We usually stayed in Balmoral Terrace with the McGurk family who had a daughter called Marilyn. They also had a lovely golden spaniel which my brother and I loved.
I was allowed to run free in Fleetwood. I would go up to the Mount by myself, or to the pier.
How we loved the marionnettes. I think it was a married couple ...see more
I lived in 123 Rochester ave.,from about 1934 until I joined the RAF in 1948 having moved from Hayes where I was born in '31. I went to Feltham Hill School to around 1942.The cemetery opposite received a bomb in 1941 I think and blew the windows out and the roof off and we had no schooling for a month or two (Hooray!).We kids got to see the bones in the graveyard!. Another bomb fell just the other ...see more
this is where my family of Prouts came from in the early 1700 s going back to Richard Prout and Leah Mole my Gr Gr Grandparents Richard Prout and Maria (Nee Tarr )are buried in the church yard
along with many other family members iwas lucky enough to visit here in may 1915 thank you for the photos of the villiage etc Carol Erbacher from Australia
Hi Susan , I always thought that Joe Smith was the bookie that done the train trip to the sea side each year , got a packed lunch , and a coin as you said , My wife worked at Thompkins the Bakery , there sun Dave , married Jenny Plumber , they had one other son , Fish and chip shop in Station Road you went up some stairs to it , sawdust on floor , Oh I Wish , can smell the vinigaret from here , we went back to ...see more
The Morris Minor in the photograph looks like my father's first car. He lived and close by In Cock Green till around 1997. I believe I was was driven about in that car as a baby. I am now 51.
I used to live just down the way from this stile and went walks through Cally Wood firstly with my friend Pauline Ellett and later with my husband and grandchildren. It's a lovely wood and used to border the sandpit which is gone now. The sandpit was at the bottom of my friend's garden in Mount Pleasant and I used to love going over there. It was like the Grand Canyon to us. This ...see more
The name of the Greengrocers and Fruiterers was F. G. Welch & Sons.
During the Second World War 'Lord Haw-Haw' announced over the wireless from Germany that the clock atop of the Hendon Technical College was showing the 'Wrong Time!'.
Hello my name is ashlee I'm 17 years old and i live in Devon, my grandfather is called George Hughes and his deceased wife was called Maria Roberts they had a music store in crewe not sure where or what time of year it was i would imagine it was in the 60's or the 80's but the music store was closed one day i would like to buy it and recreate the memory for my grandfather as a surprise i need some help! thank you
ashlee x
yes i worked here in 1955 and had many fond memories. especialy my Boss ,A Mr Peter Shipp ran a very good busines and very pleasant chap too especially to his customers in the outlying villages here he travelled with his mobile shop . to fleckney kilby and arnsby and shearsby every publican knew him in these areas lol Colin James of Kilby bridge
Finally managed to get around to uploading a few pics of Cargo Fleet, but can't see on this site how to post them online. So if anyone can suggest, that would be great. Alternatively, email me with your email address and I will share them..
Andrew Catton
wow what memories of this very special place. I remember as a child of around 13, going with a group of kids in my road, and walking every day of the summer holidays the this place and building camps in the surrounding bushes until the street lights come on or when our tummies yearned for food.
my mum & dad was married here, I grew up in mitcham. Born in St helier hospital carshalton, and live at 44 mainwaring court arm field crescent 1961 till I was 8,9 years old and went to St marks school.
I have lovely memories of albert street mill lane coming over here to live from leeds we got a house on albert street i was only four but remembet pushing my little pram over the lockies to my grandad tonges who lived onfeatherstone villas every one helped eachother then and you knew who your neighbours where not like today ! happy memories.....
Does anyone remember Mr Beagle the music teacher and what the Latin teachers name was ?
Robert Lowe.
I am looking for any information and if possible that anyone may have on The Skelton Family-who were a big presence in Timperley up to 1905 when Elinor Clarke the grandaughter of John Skelton sold lots of land here. I would be delighted to here from anyone who has any memories of the family. Thank you.
I lived in finchley in the 50`s and 60`s and my dad owned Daves snack bar which was next to St Mary`s School. In this pcture i can see the snack bar and im pretty sure my father is in the picture although it is the back of him . Good memories
I was born right across the road from this row of shops ,at no. 491 they were every old cottages ,the end one being the old police station, complete with dungeon, the elderly lady who lived there still had the front as it was as a police station .
charge desk and all.there was an underground tunnel that went from the cellar to court rooms which were a little farther down, on the next row of shops.
to the back was ...see more
I was born the third of four children in Breaston. Our Christmas's were spent with my Mum's sister's family consisting of Aunty, Uncle/god father and a male cousin 7 months younger than me who I mercilessly tormented throughout our childhood. It was Christmas day around 1970 and unusually, snow lay on the ground, the noise levels from our excitement in the house must have been very loud, Mum and Aunty ...see more
Born railway terrace tottenham n 17 next to railway bridge in white hart lane family cant and johnson went to st frances de sales then onto risley avenue would love to hear from anyone remembering me very hard ,but great times rose andrews thanx
Born railway terrace tottenham n 17 next to railway bridge in white hart lane family cant and johnson went to st frances de sales then onto risley avenue would love to hear from anyone remembering me very hard ,but great times rose andrews thanx
Hi, I worked on a farming scheme in1953 when I was 15, we lived in a wooden built hostel just down from the railway station as you came out and turned right, you turned right again and it was set back from the road. I would love to find out where it was, and possibly the farm too, I've looked on maps, but no luck. Can you help? Thanks, Tom Middle.
The houses on the right hand side were not demolished when the new buildings were put up. They still exist and have recently been renovated.
Not so much a memory as a request! My great-grandfather William Saward was Station Master at Audley End for 38 years, between 1857 and 1895. He lived in the Station House, where my grandfather Bertram was born and became a clerk at the Station before moving to London. For years I have been searching, writing and hoping for a photo of William, without success. There must be one out there somewhere. Can anyone help please!
David Saward (now resident in Devon)
I remember living in george st west on the new rows
I can remembet the shops there were lots ; the co-op walter wilsons where my aunt worked there was a tv shop post office; sparks shop tben another I cant remember the name then bottom papershop shops on opposite side of road demolished years ago, meadow dairy a cobblers ; fruit shop ; sweet shop spar , 2 butchers bakers which was called woods , barbers called burns, ...see more
Not so much a memory, but I'm researching my family tree and my family, the Patmans, lived in Nene Terrace at Vine House Farm. My great grandfather is Arthur George, born in 1899 and died 1964, he was married to Vivian Paul and they had children Fred (Born as John Frederick), Jean, Elizabeth (my nan), George and Violet. Would love to hear from anyone who remembers this family and if anyone has any stories regarding them.
My name is Mike Stoker
I lived in Collingham for about 7 years from 1959 to 1966. I was born in Jimmies in Leeds where we lived for 3 years before moving to Kirk deighton for about 1 year. I went to Collingham school on school lane for 6 years from 1959 to 1965 and then to secondary school in Wetherby for 1 year which included a short stay at the new Wetherby secondary school before leaving Collingham kicking and ...see more
I LIVED IN Scotland Bridge Road, New Haw, just down the road from West Byfleet. I attended WB primary school and then briefly the secondary school before I went to Woking Grammar.
These were very happy days. I worked from the age of 11 at Dix and Normans butchers in Station approach where I earned a shilling for wrapping the meat and then graduated to gutting chickens! Those were the days when you took ...see more
Used to go to The Trade, Top Rank, Clockhouse, New Penny & Pickwick club in the 60's and early 70's before I left blighty to go to NZ and Oz. Wound up in Perth, Western Australia and am still there. Knocked about with a guy called Barry Machin who was better known as Harry Munchkins before he took off to Torquay. Harry now lives in Melbourne in Oz and I've caught up with him a few times. Read on another site ...see more
I remember when I started my first job as a junior in the Westminster Bank in the background in 1964 -I stayed for just over 2 years and was then moved to Warminster branch and living in digs for the first time!
I also remember the street being empty like this but only on a Sunday-you would be lucky to ever get this scene again with no cars!
We lived in Erw Terrace and our garden overlooked Bryn Terrace
Elizabeth Jackson(nee Dunn Davies)
I remember a time ...I think 1976,me and my friend visited Kenilworthto meet a beautiful oriental girl i met in my home town of Cleveleys,she was on holiday,I'll never forget walking down Cleveleys promenade in an electrical storm and her hair was standing on end....we made it to Kenilworth but got that drunk on the train that the day was a blur,I cant remember her name but she lived in a chinese takeaway....and get this I remember her phone no....how bizzare 0926 56101.....happy days
I used to live near that gas tank and sometimes you could smell the gas. Also across the road, there was "something dangerous" which the local residents wanted removing,I think it was a fire or explosive hazard of some kind.
Glyn,Llandudno
Ann Marie, my Dad was Jimmie, your Nan`s Brother. I live at 6 Saughton Grove, Murrayfield, Edinburgh EH12 5SW ♥
Love Jean.
P S Your Nan was my Godmother.
My father & mother Harold and Lily Plympton standing on the corner of Cheap Street and Long Street. My father worked for Lemons the tailors, following in the footsteps of my grandfather Charles Robert Plympton who lived in Wootton Grove. In 1929 my father opened his own tailors shop in Long Street then in 1935 moved the shop to Hound Street which ran until 1943 when ...see more
I left the Royal Navy in late 1971 and worked in Zermatt Switzerland for a short time when I applied and got my first head chef position in England I was 21 yrs old, The owners then were MR & Mrs Mullins, Mrs Peggy Mullins was an author, It was a lovely old world hotel and they even filed part of an episode to the TV series The persuaders there, the staff were a mixed but lovely bunch, and ...see more
my time at this school was good.I arrived from Scotland in march 1957 ,I went to Mr Dunn's class.I met Shirley Kent and we got on great .I think it was my Scottish accent that did it.there was a lad called miles also john hugger both lived at rotherfield john became a policeman I think.in easter 1958 I started work as a trainee projectionist with (I think)a john cottham.I would love to hear from Shirley Kent .must be 71-72 now.cinema called the regent.
I was born in hillingdon hospital in 1956 and from the early nineteen sixties to nineteen ninety five we lived first long readings lane and then we moved to Doddsfield road things I remember most going to slough Irish society in wexham
And dancing to the major Irish showbands like big tom lary Cunningham Johnny mcavoy and meeting my friends like noel Moore the Donnelly family tom and ...see more
Evans the grocer previously mentioned was my grandfather, William Henry Evans who had a grocery shop at 50 Mikado St Penygraig.
He delivered groceries all over Penygraig with the horse and cart.
I can remember in the late 50's riding on the cart with him.
He had several horses over the years but the one I remember was "Dandy" who knew all the customers houses and would stop outside without any instructions.
Late 1940s I used to visit with my mother the Dingle cafe. I remember the 2 paths down from themain road.The first one took you down into the village but the 2ndone brought you out into a large lawn covered area wher ther was a white coloured c ottage where we could buy refreshments served by a young lady dressed in the old style of a waitress. I have never been able to find anything about this part of Lymm but I am sure I didn't dream it
my friend and I went to sherry a lot and then I work there not for long the little old man that owen it was a well not a very nice. we uses to go to comos as well.
I remember driving out to The Alpine for tea from North West London. It was an outing purely for Tea and Scones and it seemed like a long journey from NW10 to Bushey. Was in the 60's not as early as 1955!
I was born in Park Royal hospital in Feb 1952 then taken home to 70 Craven Park Road spitting distance from Harlesden police station. Just across the road from our family doctor, (Dr Curtis) not much bedside manor, but a great doctor. After 3 years we moved in with my mothers mother in 18 Mead Plat, just off the North Circular Road, this is where my childhood started. There were already some boys ...see more
In the 50/60s' my Grandparents used to own The Fox and Hounds Pub in Carlton. Although it's no longer there. I spent many a day, as a child there, whilst my parents helped out in the pub.
I remember the Gliders catapulting off the bank and the old bomb craters, full to the brim of water.
I even remember the time when a Bull was tethered by the nose on the green outside The Blackwell Ox ...see more
My name was Gill Evans at that time and lived at 42 Lampton Rd. I had 4 brothers and sister, Jean.
See that Rita Pilbrow has written her memories......her sister, Claudette, was friend of mine and I remember her family well. Lots of memories of good times with Claudette. Also remember Doreen Matthews and family and Terry Davis in Bulstrode Ave. Jones family also living in same road.
What happened to the ...see more
I remember we used to walk from my grandma's house in Nottingham Road opposite the Fire Station down through the park, cut through to Burton Street and about halfway up Burton Hill. I was never quite sure why we went there - probably some place my grandmother had stayed or someone she used to know. She said it was exactly a mile, but I only remember it was a very long way on my seven-year-old little legs.
My father's mother's family (Lee or Lea) lived in a cottage called Brook House, near Broadlands Farm. We have a picture of Brook House painted in about 1910, in which it seems as if the cottage may have been part of the original 'Brook House' (a much grander building), and was perhaps actually a stable block or coach house belonging to the original 'big house'.
My great-grandfather worked for Powick Asylum ...see more
Looking for any memories anyone might have of Jack Lane's store in Luton which sold children's wear. It was a family run store. Jack's wife was Bessie and their daughters, Eunice and Sheila, used to work in the store as well. Would love to hear from anyone having any memories of my grandparents. I was born in Luton in 1959 and moved in 1962 to New York. Looking to recapture the past. Thanks, Haydn. (hbrill@brillassociates.com).
When I was about 18months old, my mum got ill after having my sister. I was taken to live with my Great Grandparents in Thurcroft. Mr & Mrs Quinn. These are the some of the best memories of my life. My Great Grandmother was a very caring & loving Nan & my Great Grandfather looked after the local church,which had a stage,which I loved to perform my own song & Dance things. Which ...see more
I lived at the bottom of Egham Hill in in 1960. I went to Egham Manor School. I was only there for 3 years, then we moved to Dover.
Betty and Alec Billington were my mum and uncle who went to the village school in the 1920's and 1930's. My grandad was the blacksmith
I'm trying to locate information about the Polish Camp in Hainault Road that was there after the war where Polish servicemen stayed. Does anyone have any memories of this or any information? Any memories of the Polish and Irish communities in the Ilford area during the late '40s early '50s? I am trying to gather information for my family tree. My birth parents would have come from these communities in Ilford.
hey just wondering if anyone from stell maris remembers my mum her name was anne Mitchell she attended the school n her younger days she went on to marry my father Harold murthwaite they lived in borrowdale ave for any years until my mum passed away 3 years ago x
In the late fifties and early sixties myself and my family lived just outside Guildford (where I was born in 1951) and my mother used to take me after school on shopping trips to Guildford High Street and into Harveys as it was then, as she knew the fashion buyer there. As a treat we would go up to the wonderful roof garden and whilst mum had tea I played, running backwards and forwards over the stepping stones ...see more
does anyone remembered united dairies / unigate in anyards road in 1962 to 1964 a freind use to work there called nigel but can not remember his second name
My maternal grandfather Ernest Cording was the private secretary to Mr Augustus Brandt, of Bletchingley Castle, before WWII at William Brandt's London offices and was asked to move from Upminster in Essex to live at Hill Cottage or The Dower House on Castle Hill in late 1939 when key employees were "evacuated" to Bletchingley. Hill Cottage was often used as accommodation for visiting staff my ...see more
Born in 1947 before the NHS mum was transported to Hitchen to have me (hospitals full in London or too expensive?). I lived in half of a two-up two-down. We had the downstairs. My younger twin sisters and I shared a bed whilst mum & dad slept on the put-u-up. Nanny was across the road above her sister's sweet shop and our other nan around the corner at Whitby House. I had an idealic first 10 years of life until the ...see more