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I was born in Denholme but moved to Wilsden when I was two. I can remember arriving in the back of a furniture truck. It was a lovely life for a child, even after the war started. Most of the dads were away fighting but the ...Read more

A memory of Wilsden in 1930 by Shirley Jones

Living in Lewisham in what was Engate Street in the late 1950's Peter Pans Pool was to us like a holiday Park and I spent a lot of time there as a child even when we moved to Sydenham in 1960's. ...Read more

A memory of Catford by Rosemary Riddle

I was at Hutton poplars home from 1960-1965, started in Fal house Miss Creffield,was house mother, then 1962 moved into Dart house with the same housemother Miss Creffield until 1964, I spent last year in Thames ...Read more

A memory of Shenfield in 1960 by Alan Loxton

Seemed like everybody knew everybody in the town in the 1950s and a trip to town with grandma was an obstacle course of gossiping delays riddled with 'not for the ears of children' innuendo...Yellow bereted... ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1953

I remember this being built in front of the Wembley Pool in early 1960’s bringing Ten Pin Bowling to London. We used to meet up on Friday’s evenings after watching Ready Steady Go (which was transmitted from the ATV Studios close by in ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Roger Stanley

I did leave an earlier paragraph on this site years ago, but I can't see it now. Indeed, growing up in Welling in the late forties to early sixties was a privilege accorded so very few. I subsequently spent forty-two years in ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Noel Bailey

I always remember my time at Chaigeley with fondness....I made many friends there. The teachers I recall were; Mr Gululley, Mr Hamer, Mr Gyones, Mr Taylor, Mr Berry, Mr Jinks..just to name a few. I used to play crab football in ...Read more

A memory of Thelwall by Nic Wilkinson

Sellincourt school memories. Hi everyone! My name is Nusrat Khan and I attended Sellimcourt Primary school during the early 1970's and what a brilliant decade that was! I lived above my dad's dry ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1974 by Nusrat Khan

Hello Francis, I was always at the Upper Deck... I loved it there. Somewhere I have a photograph of myself as a little girl but already conscious of herself, posing on the ladder leading down to the pool. Happy, happy days.

A memory of Hampton Court

My name was Thompson then, I was 14 and with others from the Northeast met at Newcastle central stn for our journey and a new adventure to Martonschool,we were the first children to set foot into school grounds,seeing the outside ...Read more

A memory of Whitegate in 1955 by Noreen Foster