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Preedys was the main tobacconist in Wolverhampton and the Express Cafe at the bottom of Queen Street is where I used to go for dinner on a Saturday after working the Minors matinee film at the ABC cinema in Garrick street. There used ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town in 1960 by Gordon Ford

I was born at 41 Woodleigh Avenue just about opposite the Gully that I walked through every day with my brother to catch the bus to Bournville school.  I remember the war years, our house getting bombed while we were in the shelter ...Read more

A memory of Bournbrook in 1940 by Cynthia Portas

Dear Sir, My parents Derek and Shirley Battye were the licensees of the Globe in 1965 and I have many happy memories of the time we spent there, I would often catch crabs from thec quay and first went to school in Newton Ferrers via the ...Read more

A memory of Noss Mayo in 1965 by Nick Battye

And so i became a full teenage worker, ha ha , off to earn all that fabulous money, to buy all i wanted and roll around every where in style, be like the grown ups , drink beer down the pub or up the pub in my ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood in 1966 by Nicolas Fumarola

My name is Alan Naber and in 1949 I was five years old and started my school life at Red Lion Road school. This is an account of how I saw life at that time with a few additions from other students I am still in touch ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by oldcyclist

I was 9 when we returned from Australia in the summer of 1967, we lived at 37 Farley Road after three different houses in Littleheath Road all belonging to friends of my parents, who conveniently were away on holiday by consecutive ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Cooper

I started at St Anne's in 1970, in Upper Transition and left in 1979 after taking my O levels. I took my A levels at Richmond upon Thames College. Being a Protestant in a Catholic school, the ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by denise.r.willmott

I was at Fairfield, late 70s, miss Brooke,was head & she would bounce up drive with tress her Labrador every morning while we were at breakfast,miss coyne became deputy head,& her dogs poppy & berry & that VW She ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs by emerald1960.td

My mother’s cousin, Gordon Ross, was the head gardener at Howden Dene in the ‘30s and ‘40’s, when the property was owned by the Straker-Smith family. I was born in 1934. During WW2 when sea-side holidays were difficult, my mother ...Read more

A memory of Howden Dene by p.wolstenholme

For a small rural community Cold Ash was a busy village in the 1950s. Collins’ Farm, three shops, four pubs, a coal merchant, and two garages all provided local employment. In addition the Convent with its farm and ...Read more

A memory of Cold Ash by grahamfsmith