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I have read an article by Sylvia Lock. I made me smile and bought back so many happy memories from my childhood in Edmonton. I to remember Pymms park and yes the dentist at the clinic in the center of the park. I was sent there by my ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton in 1958 by Keith Thompson

to 1966 I lived at Flower House Estate opposite and at every opportunity I would nip over to the pool to have a go on the canoes. It cost 6d I think. I was so good that many years later when I was on an endurance ...Read more

A memory of Catford in 1956 by Barbara Watts [Nee Ball]

In my final year at Mountfields we were led up to the swimming baths in a long crocodile to be taught how to swim, if we couldn't already. I'd just about learnt to swim the previous summer holiday in Wales, but it felt much ...Read more

A memory of Loughborough in 1959 by Richard Allen

Happy hours with my friend Ella Hyde whose father was caretaker in the Town Hall. Hiding in the gallery to watch the ballroom dances. We both swam for East Ham swimming club for many years. The big pool was also for dancing, ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1958 by Anita Loe

What fantastic memories I have of growing up in Welling. I was brought up in Clifton Road which was opposite the Guy Earl of Warwick pub. I went to Primary School at Fosters which was in Northdown Road then ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1959 by Dennis Cooke

My name was Thompson then, I was 14 and with others from the Northeast met at Newcastle central stn for our journey and a new adventure to Martonschool,we were the first children to set foot into school grounds,seeing the outside ...Read more

A memory of Whitegate in 1955 by Noreen Foster

i started school at Nork in 1956 but can't find the school anywhere . we lived in Parsonsfield Road and walked through alleyways to the school headed towards Drift bridge has anybody any information please. Thank you. Iremember the school had an outdoor swimming pool.

A memory of Nork in 1956 by Maureen Lowder

I have very fond memories of summer holidays in my aunties cottage that is my grandmas sisterinlaws on adelaide road. Going to the open air swimming pool playing on the park the pub across the road from her house that ...Read more

A memory of Andover Down in 1959 by Sandra Barlow

Seemed like everybody knew everybody in the town in the 1950s and a trip to town with grandma was an obstacle course of gossiping delays riddled with 'not for the ears of children' innuendo...Yellow bereted... ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1953