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Memories of Frimley back in the early sixties. I worked at Southern Instruments on Frimley Road and the first telephone answering machine was developed on site (the machine was the size of a small suitcase). There was a record shop in ...Read more

A memory of Frimley in 1960

Hi, I am Matthew Lowe. My dad is Kenneth Lowe and was the local policeman and we were the first to live at the police house on Peckforton Hall Lane just off the A49 at Spurstow crossroads. I was six in ...Read more

A memory of Spurstow in 1960 by Matthew Lowe

Hi, my name is Margaret Henderson (nee Percy). I lived in Westerham, Kent but worked in the Croydon Model Laundry. I used to travel by bus to Croydon every day from Westerham and then walked down Surrey Street markets to the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1962 by Margaret Henderson

My sister and I were in Myton Hamlet Children's Home which was in Warwick/Warwickshire. We would come by Lloyds Coaches on a Saturday, this was the start of the holiday. It took us all day to get there, no ...Read more

A memory of St Mary's Bay in 1960 by Robert Foster

My father was born and lived in Huddleston St, Cullercoats. My memories are of visiting my grandmother who lived in the upstairs flat of Huddleston St next to Barons the Fruiter and Wedderburns the Bakers. On the ...Read more

A memory of Cullercoats in 1960 by John Stoneman

We used to live in Lower Morden Lane, opposite the cemetery gates! When I was little the fields opposite were still full of cows and horses, but I believe it has long since been built over with housing. I learned to ride my bike on ...Read more

A memory of Raynes Park in 1965 by Penny Joyce

Have to say reading the entries of everyone’s memories is simply wonderful. Both my parents grew up in Mitcham, my father John Stockley who was Mitcham born and bred, married my mother Jean Nightingale in the church in Church Road back in ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1969 by Paul Nightingale

My mum was born there but came to Wales when war broke out as she was in care at the time. She stayed with a couple who had lost their own child and who eventually 'adopted' her so she never returned, but ...Read more

A memory of Uckfield in 1960 by Barbra Breeze

Wes Coulthard and me decided to go to the smoke to try our luck,this was early sixties. Wes had worked in London before for a building company called Higgs & Hill so we decided to give it a go as we had just been laid off. It was ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1964 by Jimmy Burrows

My memories were of the club trips, they would have been a lot of people's holidays. Our dad would have been a member of at least four clubs so that meant we got a trip to the seaside, a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps, and the ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe in 1960 by Lily Dorritt( Wassell)