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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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