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I was born in 1950 in New House Lane, then moved to Copsleigh Ave around 1954, I think it was 1955. When I attended Salfords School then went to the new school in Copsleigh Ave, we lived at No.58 until 1968 when we emigrated ...Read more

A memory of Salfords in 1955 by Julie Weguelin

I worked in the ticket office at the railway station from about 1959 until about 1962. The taxi drivers would come in for tea and W.H.Smiths was attached to the building. I was one of the first to move in to the block ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1959 by James Stapleton

I remember Welling Corner so well. My father owned the fish shop on the right and we lived in the flat over the shop. Welling then was a buzzing place and I used to love watching from my bedroom window. I still remember the shops; ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1955 by Madeleine Marshall

My dad bought a brand new house on Craigwell Avenue in 1956. Builder was William Old. I was 4. The house was blue and yellow, 4 houses up on the left from Newberries Avenue. The construction went on for at least two years after moving ...Read more

A memory of Radlett in 1956 by Robin Thompson

We used to visit Sunderland when I was a child. Laurel Cottage had an orchard full of daffodils in spring, and whenever I hear Wordsworth's poem I'm taken straight back to the sight of all those daffodils ...Read more

A memory of Sunderland in 1952 by Sheila Mc Cann

The two principal grocery shops in Westbury village, as it was still usually called, in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the Co-operative grocery by the corner of Church Road -- the Co-operative butcher ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

After Townsend's chemist shop was Hudderstone's which was a family business and Mrs Hudderstone pleasantly sold sweets, lemonades, ice cream and newspapers in the front of the shop and Mr Hudderstone ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

I lived in Bradford in the bungalow my dad designed at the corners. We emigrated to Canada in 1958 - I was 7. My dad came over here first to get work as an architect and a home for us. My mum, older brother, ...Read more

A memory of Bradford-on-Tone in 1958 by Lesley Tribbeck

I remember dancing after school in Horsell town hall on Horsell main street in the 50s. I was at Goldsworth School, Woking in those years. My friend David and I were always dancing there, on Wednesdays I think. ...Read more

A memory of Horsell in 1952 by William Patten

I was born in the July of 1952,to my parents Frank and Bette Coxon. We lived above a butchers shop, on the corner of the Wednesfield Road and Heath street - the shop belonged to Mr Sammy Hall. My father worked as a butcher at Downs of ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town in 1952 by Antrhony Coxon