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I also visited Salisbury Avenue where my grandparents lived, every day, as I came home from the Grammar School. I regularly went past the barracks and along the Artillery Folly on my way to the bus station then in St Johns street. So ...Read more

A memory of Colchester by chris.yule2

We use to live at number 19 Bridge Road. My earliest memory is watching a parrot flying across Greenham's field behind the prefab. We never has a bathroom only a out side loo. Our bath night was on a sunday. A old tin bath infront of the ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by ladyunicorn20709

I will be 72 years old this year of 2015. I remember working with my uncle Syd and Auntie Chris Ryder at Bromley Hall Corn Merchants at the Godstone Road end of Timber Hill on the site which ...Read more

A memory of Caterham by Roger Ryder

I lived in Aylestone ,for the first 24 years of my life ,going to Marriott Road School ,then on to Lansdowne Road ,I remember as a young boy ,playing on a vast building site ,which was The Eyres Monsell Estate ...Read more

A memory of Aylestone by davidrexcooper

does anyone remeber jennys cafe ? It was in Martindale Road, opposite the infant and junior schools. There were a row of about 6 cottages in a terrace and jennys was on the end. There was also a hardwear shop and a drapery shop which was ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by j.daysh

Salford forms much of my family’s history, although I only spent a little time there, leaving when I was very young, some years ago I started to wonder how? why? what? brought both my families the HARRIS family on my Dad’s side ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Peter Harris

I was a barracks baby, lived in Park Crescent when the barracks were RAF and then Whitby Road? When transferred to the army. I've lived in some wonderful places but nowhere moulded me like Waterbeach. I attended Waterbeach ...Read more

A memory of Waterbeach by Carole Bagnall

I have never been to Moreton Paddox but I just found some pictures of the gardens and house in my father's scrapbook from the war. He lived in the barracks near the gardens from June 13 to August 10, 1944. On the back of one ...Read more

A memory of Moreton Paddox

My Grandfather and Grandmother, Mary and Charles Warner lived at a house called 'Old Trunk' in Cove, until 1925. I am not sure if this was 'Old Trunk Farm' as it was just a house, with no outbuildings as far as I can see from the one ...Read more

A memory of Cove by Chris Williams

I was seconded to 10 Signals Regiment in November 1971 from my Territorial Army engagement with 39 Signals and spent the best part of a foggy, cold and hard working long month training with ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1971 by John Howard Norfolk