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I was the main weekday driver of the launch photographed during the student holiday periods of 1955-1958.  When I drove it, the name was 'Silver Stream'.  It was the largest of a set of three electric launches which carried paying ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1955 by Claire Allen

I was born in Wood Green in 1940. My earliest recollection is being in a classroom in Lordship Lane with other children and being told I was not supposed to be there.It's possible I had wandered from home,which was on the Tottenham side of ...Read more

A memory of Wood Green in 1947 by First Name Last Name

I grew up in Motspur Park, living in Claremont Avenue from 1958 - 1980 where my mother still lives. The swing gate railway crossing which we used to hang onto while the signal man wound them open and closed (the record ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park in 1966 by Gary Elmer

I lived at Church Farm, Longparish in the late fifties & early sixties. The farm was then a working farm and my father was dairyman. I went to the primary school just after it was rebuilt, the teachers were Miss Munday & Miss ...Read more

A memory of Longparish in 1957 by Robert Bolt

I remember breaking and entering on a Friday night in February. Mr Doyle the local policeman rounds us up on Saturday a.m. in his house that doubled as a police station. Father went crazy and ripped up Wales-Australia ...Read more

A memory of Pontyclun in 1958 by Peter Harris

I was born in 1931. During the war I spent about 1 year in Walkford, at the home of a great aunt in the village of Walkford. The maternal ancestry of my family is in Walkford. My great aunt had a house on I guess the Ringwood road. ...Read more

A memory of Walkford in 1943 by Patricia Hardwicke

The Harman family lived in "The Fields" on the Description of Emumeration District, listed on the 1851 census. "The Fields" was listed between Bowbridge Lane and the "Middle of Strouds Hill".

A memory of Stroud in 1860 by j-a-reynolds

Yes, I remember this street so well as a young boy, I lived up Crossgate at the Angel Inn then Claypath at The Wheatsheaf. I was Christened at St Margarets half way up Crossgate and went to school at The Blue Coat, ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1940 by Rob Beilby

I lived in Horton from my birth to my 22nd year. I went to the Horton Church School first in 1941. There was a separate playground for both boys and girls, and a small door leading into the shelters. When the air raid siren ...Read more

A memory of Horton in 1940 by Sylvie Mc Kay

I lived on Shepherds Hill and attended this school until I went on to Redden Court Secondary Modern at age 11. My name was Marguerite Valentine at the time. I would be interested to hear from anyone who ...Read more

A memory of Harold Wood in 1953 by Marguerite Wong