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Having lived from 1938 to 1959 in the adjacent Lymington Road, which backs onto the Richmond-Broad Street Line serving this station and having passed it daily to and from my way to school/work, I would ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage in 1950 by Dennis Paul

This was a Boys Grammar School. Their uniform was a cap and blazer with broad black and dark red stripes. During the war a number of the large houses in Frognal were evacuated by their wealthy owners, "For ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage in 1950 by Dennis Paul

My husband and I moved to Easthampstead in 1959 and were allocated an "end terrace house" in Black Meadows. We went to the local Baptist Church where services were then held in an old house near where Pointe Royale was ...Read more

A memory of Easthampstead in 1959 by Pamela Chaldecott

I lived at 9 Morton Crescent just after the war. Robert Winston, the well known 'fertiliser' lived across the other side of the roundabout. I went to school at Bowes Road Infants and I remember walking there on my own in ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1951 by Ivor Blight

I lived in Cintra Park, off Anerley Hill from 1950 to 1967 and remember the Paxton Arms on the corner of Palace Road. There was a general store on the next corner up owned at one time by the son of a friend of my ...Read more

A memory of Crystal Palace in 1950 by Alan Baker

I was in the R.A.F. from 1955-1958. I was packing parachutes at Upper Heyford in the parachute shop; I packed the 'x type'. I remember warrant officer Wardley, Chiefy Oates, Sgt Pirney and Mam Grant. I also worked with ...Read more

A memory of Upper Heyford in 1956 by Kathleen Bragg

Hi to all. The public house in the centre of town, where the policeman stood directing traffic was The One Bell. Next door was a shop called the Maypole and next to that was The Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel. Richard Trevithick ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1950 by Tom (Sid) Couchman

I married John Hollis from Eyam and we were married for 38 years. Sadly, he died in November 1995. John was born in Eyam, the youngest son of Arthur and Elizabeth (Vanes).They lived in the council houses on Grindleford Road. Eyam is ...Read more

A memory of Eyam in 1956 by Elsie Hollis

I lived in Hornsey up until 1960, I attended St Mary's School, Priory Rd (Hornsey High street?) I finished with school there in 1950 and was there four or five years? I think the headmaster was Mr Ball(?) There was a music teacher ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1950 by Ken Phillips

I and my two brothers grew up in Brook during the late 1940's, the 50's & 60's; our house was more or less behind the telegraph pole to the right of the picture. Mr Pembury ran the Post Office and Stores (thats his van ...Read more

A memory of Brook in 1956 by Alan Smith