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The Royal order of Buffalos..... Next door but one to the nurses home (as was), now a nursing home. I was born in Highfield hospital, Mill Lane, lived in Wallasey until I was 62 and now live in the north of Scotland. When I was a ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1993 by Linda Holland

My grandparents (Mr and Mrs Riches) owned the cosy corner cafe on the Brighton Road and we lived at 93 Brighton Road. I've been told it is now a Costa Coffee or something like that. The last time I went there is was a Happy Eater and ...Read more

A memory of Hooley in 1950 by Diane Nye

In 1942 aged 5 due to my father being a shipwright in the Portsmouth Dockyard he was transferred to a satellite dockyard at Dunstaffnage where we stayed as a family until the war finished and we then moved back to ...Read more

A memory of Oban in 1942 by Brian Woodward

My memory of Liverpool was living in number 12 Kensington Rd near the corner of Hall Lane where the post office was. My parents' landlady was Mrs Elizabeth Smith, I think she was Tommy Smith's mother? I remember my father taking ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1957 by Alan Bond

I remember my happy childhood in Brighton Road so well. We lived at 114, heading toward the Portsmouth road. My grandfather had built the house. It lay back from the road. Mr and Mrs Harper ran the paper shop that had a ...Read more

A memory of Surbiton in 1952

I was born in Hooley, so I am an original "Hooligan"!! My family lived in Brighton Road, Hooley, about 300 yds to the left of this photo, in fact my mother still does. My first Saturday job was in the newsagents, Fords, which is the second ...Read more

A memory of Hooley by Cheryl Holdway

My name then was Babs Collins and my memory goes back to World War II, when I and others from my school in Victoria, London were evacuated to both East & West Clandon. We had been moved very hurriedly in July ...Read more

A memory of East Clandon in 1940 by Gina Arnold

I was christened in this church in 1952. We lived in Crystal Palace Park Road, and I was a Cub Scout there as well, 4th Sydenham. I remember one year we entered a 'Soap Box' go-cart in the soap box derby that was held in Brighton ...Read more

A memory of Sydenham in 1958 by Wayne Ruffle

It is not possible to see Bridlington from Reighton. This is the view across Filey Bay towards Filey and Filey Brigg.

A memory of Reighton

I lived in Norbury Court Rd. My first school was Mrs. Nicholson's school, called St. Winifreds. I was there at the age of 4, and later went on to Coloma in Croydon for the rest of my school life. I remember our school blazer ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1948 by Pat Courtney