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OUR HISTORY AS A COMPANY To get all the information I've had to go back to the very beginning, here goes. Sarah Ann Kershaw born 1855 married James Roscoe becoming Sarah Ann Roscoe. Sarah ...Read more

A memory of Little Lever by jmilly75

I was born in 1924 @80 water street in the rear part of a sweetshop fronting on water street & owned by My Godmother Eva Parks-My Father worked in the steel mill & We moved to London in 1931 for My Father to obtain work which He ...Read more

A memory of Port Talbot by jamescoll65

I worked at the mill for a number of years.Outside the power plant was a fresh water 'well' fed I think, either from the river or from an underground artesian well. I was amazed when someone told me there were crabs in the well, incredibly ...Read more

A memory of South Darenth by johnmsmithfd

I left school (Lowndes County Secondary School for Girls) in 1967 at the age of 15 and went to work at Oswald Hickson as office junior. Our offices were above Westminster Bank, just out of the photo on the right. I ...Read more

A memory of Chesham by sylviahornsby

My name is Lisa Rebecca Haynes. I was born on the 13th May 1972 and I lived and grew up in Newnham until I moved to Daventry and left My Family Home. I am the youngest of 5. I have 3 Brothers ...Read more

A memory of Newnham by lisahaynes72

this picture is of Millthrop not Milthorpe and the mill is Millthrop Mill, where I worked for a while

A memory of Sedbergh by Leslie Howard

I visited Bridgefoot from the early 1950's to stay with my grandma and granddad at Ellers view next to the Dukes Head (which had been owned by my great granddad Thomas Bowness). Ellers View had its own back way into the ...Read more

A memory of Bridgefoot by steve

After reading Colin's memories of Aveley. Took me back to 1956 when we bought our first house in Alfred Road, came under Mill Road Estate. We remember this place so well, it was where our second son was christened in St ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by ramon777

Does anyone remember the petrol station being built on the corner of Mill Road where it joins Purfleet Road around 1969/1970. An Esso station now I think, but then it was ABCO - (with a big orange and black triangular logo) I worked for ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by alandvi.187

This is a long shot, but I wondered whether anyone remembered the Southern City Sounds, a band who used to play live music at the Mill House back in the 1970's. They played quite a few Glen Campbell songs and the like and back in the ...Read more

A memory of Salfords