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16 maps found.

1947, Norwood Ref. NPO794716
1945, Norwood Ref. NPO794717
1945, Norwood Green Ref. NPO794735
1940, Norwood Hill Ref. NPO794737
1946, West Norwood Ref. NPO864807
1946, Upper Norwood Ref. NPO857690
1947, Norwood Green Ref. NPO794734
1946, Norwood End Ref. NPO794723
1940, Upper Norwood Ref. NPO857689
1946, South Norwood Ref. NPO835147
1946, Norwood New Town Ref. NPO794744
1946, Forwood Ref. NPO708257
1946, Horwood Ref. NPO740908
1946, Horwood Riding Ref. NPO740913
1946, Little Horwood Ref. NPO757480
1946, Great Horwood Ref. NPO720068

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Memories

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Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

To Wheatley And Back

After the Second World War and during the austere period of rationing, among the items that were in short supply was coal. People would burn anything in order to keep warm, and many were the trips that I ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1947 by Frank Mowforth

Growing Up In Southall

I grew up in Southall in the 1940s and 50s. We lived in Gordon Road in a terraced house that backed onto The Tube. We had an outside toilet, no bathroom and, until I was about 6, no electricity. At the age of 5 I could ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1945 by John Lennon

Norwood Green

I was born in Norwood Green in 1939. I also went to Clifton Road school. We were bombed regularly as the anti aircraft guns were in Osterly Park behind our house which was also opposite St Marys Church. Two Italian prisoners of ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1940 by Rosemary Kind

The Other Side Of Hyde Road

We had long warm summers with some rain and all the children could play together without too much bickering, our little group lived in a small area from Wren Street to Ashmore Street. Not all the kids went to St Marks ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1948 by Kenneth Frost

Osterley Park

In 1930 I was born at Northumberland Avenue, Isleworth: parallel to the Great West Road and behind St Francis Church. As Osterley Park was so near I used to play, with my chums, frequently in the grounds of the park. We had many ...Read more

A memory of Osterley in 1945 by John Rose

Growing Up In South Norwood And Visiting Central Croydon

I was born in Rotherhithe in 1939 and moved with my parents to south Norwood when I was 3. I went to Cypress Primary School during the last year of the war and remember vividly walking from ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1944 by Bernard Maguire

1942 At 14 Years Old My Life Changes

After our family home in Trafalgar Avenue, Peckham was damaged by the 'blitz' for the 3rd time, my mother decided enough is enough. She got in touch with her sister who lived in the country (South Norwood) to ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1942 by Royhenry Knight

St Helen's School, Streatham Common

My sister, Adele, and I went to St Helen's School on the corner of Valley Road opposite Streatham Common. I remember Sheila Tittenshaw and another girl called Eleanor amongst others. I learnt to read there. The ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1947 by Marianne Stevens

Shirley Public Library

I was born in Shirley in 1935. My parents had married a year earlier and moved to a new semi detached house (cost seven hundred and twenty-five pounds) in the new housing estate. They came from crowded row houses in ...Read more

A memory of Shirley in 1945 by David Roberts

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