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I received  information from my cousin Leslie about this photo. Now that I have found it I am delighted. My grandparents were Thomas Benjamin Fairminer (1881-1954) who married Louisa Florence Smith (1880 - 1944). They ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by Joyce Hunt

I was 10 years old and had cycled to the pool from my home in Hesters Way. Old bike, black with a basket on the front for my jam sandwiches and pop, towel and swimsuit in. With friends we would spend all day there, not really able to ...Read more

A memory of Cheltenham in 1958 by Jacqueline Timms

A place on Westcliff Road, Broadstairs, during the early sixties, named St Lo. Used as a skating rink, and as a dance rock n roll club, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Anyone having any descriptive memories, of this St Lo, social hall - rock ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1960

Mine is not a memory but a request for information or old photos. I live in Station House (the old Station Masters house) and have only been able to find 1, unclear, photo of the house. I would love to know of the previous residents here and photos. Many thanks.

A memory of Hopeman by Debra Williams

I was thirteen at the time and lived off Riverslea Road, which led down to a walled field on to the beach. My friends Derek Austin, Les Reece, Charlie Kelly, and a few others had built the Biggest Bonfire ...Read more

A memory of Blundellsands in 1953 by Thomas Davies

I lived in the Court in Diss as a 3 and 4 year old girl. My father was in the US Airforce so we moved all over the world. The Court has special memories for us. My sister Sharon was born in the house. I remember beautiful gardens, ...Read more

A memory of Diss in 1954 by Adrienne Love Workman

I was born in 1938 in Needwood Street off Rochdale Road. My Mam and Dad were allocated a new flat in Kingsley Crescent when I was a year old so all my memories are of the 'flats'. I, along with my two sisters and one ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1940 by Mavis Mc Grath

My mother and her mother were born in my great-grandparents' cottage at Hanworth Common. Richard and Blanche Craske they were. Well dear old Richard was really my step great grandad. The true one was ...Read more

A memory of Aldborough in 1944 by Richard Whitten

I lived as a child in Croydon. My memories were the shops, tea at Alders, a special treat of milk shake at Macdonalds (there was only one at that time and it tasted better!). There was a sweet shop at the bottom of Shirley Avenue ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1980

I have lived at three houses in Sipson. The first was 44 Sipson Way. My mother, brother and I moved in there in about 1956. I went to the old Heathrow School on the Bath Road a nice little school though old fashioned. I ...Read more

A memory of Sipson in 1956 by Barry Hawgood