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My gran was from Cornsay Colliery, her family name was Dunning and they lived in Little Street, Cornsay Colliery. She married a Frank Chapman but he died in WW1 so was a widow; she married my granddad, James ...Read more

A memory of Cornsay Colliery in 1956 by Derick Smith

I lived in Smoke Lane, Reigate, for the first 13 years of my life and have very happy memories of that time. I attended North Bank Preparatory School in Smoke Lane from 1952 until 1958 and then Reigate Priory County Secondary ...Read more

A memory of Reigate in 1950 by Christine Iqbal

I was born in Newton Abbot 1952. My brother John and I went to Bearnes School until John left to go to a new school above our home in Penn Inn Close. We left Newton Abbot when I was about 6 years old and moved to Bedfordshire. ...Read more

A memory of Newton Abbot in 1956 by Jacqueline Wood

I remember the Bakers at the corner of Longfellow Road. My parents lived in Merrilands Road and my mother and I would do our shopping in Worcester Park and sometimes at North Cheam or even Sutton or Kingston! Fond memories.

A memory of Worcester Park in 1952 by Margaret Bond

I remember Girl Guides with my friend Wendy Hobson at the Holy Cross Churches and Evensong at 6:30PM on Sundays. Yes Wendy, I remember after the 9AM mass we would go over to Bethem hall after service to set up for ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1954 by Barbara H Balint

We moved in to the lodge at the main gate of the castle on 6th June 1953 till March 1965. Spent many happy hours playing in the castle gardens and summer houses and also in the castle itself, it was partly furnished then and I used ...Read more

A memory of Lowther in 1953 by Eric Mawson

I can hardly believe this; I've just looked at this website for the first time, and see a comment from someone who lived at the police station from 1953. Would you believe, so did I! My father was based there and we lived ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1953

The memories I have of Patricroft were of going to Patricroft bridge to watch the Whit Week walks, my mum used to dress us all up in our best clothes [all eight of us], we only lived on Rowsley Road so it was just a short ...Read more

A memory of Patricroft in 1950 by Lynn Johnson[Nee Tither]

My family lived in Kinellar (Blackburn) before we emigrated to New Zealand in 1959. My sister and I went to Kinellar School, and my Dad, Bob Forbes, also attended the same school when he was a lad and has often talked ...Read more

A memory of Kinellar in 1959

Who remembers Inwood Park paddling pool and boating lake? The lake was more of a circular water course around a central island but you could use the little paddle boats - operated by handles that turned the paddles, if I remember ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1958 by Susan Coleman