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My father worked on a construction site at Tilbury I think it was, so our family moved from Thornaby to Corringham.  We lived in a trailer on a farm just behind the Bull Inn, right next to a school.  There was a lane between ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1951 by Max Anderson

I was born in Calverley in 1948. I lived with my mother, father and brother (Ernest). I attended Calverley Church School. I played down in the woods most of the time, with my brother and our friends. My brother was a bully with ...Read more

A memory of Calverley in 1956 by Gloria Conroy

I lived in Dagnam Park Drive near Sedgefield Crescent and remember............Petersfield, Hilldene and Whitchurch shops, the "1st, 2nd and 3rd" woods as we referred to them, starting in Dagnam Park Drive, heading ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1957 by Ken H

I was born in 1942 and brought up in Walthamstow in NE London. We were a working class family and Dad always provided us with 2 week's holiday, if possible 'by the sea'. In 1951, Dad chose Dawlish Warren. I ...Read more

A memory of Dawlish Warren in 1951 by Roy Beiley

This fine school {formerly Woodley Hill} was opened in 1957. I was lucky enough to be one of 150 pupils who passed the 11plus {God knows how} and thus was one of the first intake, a real privilege although I ...Read more

A memory of Winnersh in 1957 by Bob Bright

In the summer of 1952 I learnt that my parents had decided to move from our home in the Midlands to the West Country as my father wished to return to where his relatives lived. It came as no surprise therefore, when one day they ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth in 1952

I lived in Harold Hill from 1952 till the early 70's. My first school was Bosworth Junior, the Headmaster, a nasty old man named Gridley and our form teacher the great Miss Worril. When I left there I went to Quarles where ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1952