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What lovely memories this photograph has given. I remember going to Peter Pan's Pond on Sunday afternoons. We would catch the number 47 bus from Catford. I loved the play park and the large sandpit. The swings seemed huge. The ...Read more

A memory of Catford by Sue Chilvers

I was born in 298 Burnley Road East on August 18th 1945. The Nurse who delivered me was Nurse Bowe, who was a good friend of my Gran's (Teresa Whittaker, nee O'Brien). All my Aunties and Uncles were born ...Read more

A memory of Waterfoot by Judith Mc Creath

Hi, I lived at 20 Todd Street, Higher Broughton, Salford for 5 years. I left when I was 7. Went to St Thomas School, don't remember too much of school. Made my holy communion there. Remember going to Heaton and Manley Park ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1970 by Noreena Langdon

I was one year old when WW2 began - in 1938. Most of my visual memories stem from that time. I remember, without any facts to support them, the large white house that stood in the grounds of Waitrose Car Park and was in ...Read more

A memory of Barnet in 1949 by Roland Wood

Annie Dawsons - all the pillars were covered in mirroflex (tiny bits of mirror tile), Garners second-hand shop, next shop down? Mrs Garner lived in the house attached to the Travellers Rest, till she died (always ...Read more

A memory of Windhill by Ken Haddy

Our family immigrated to Australia in 1955 (we were Ten Quid Poms) but I still have acute memories of life in Lewisham. We lived in at 44 Aislibie Road, Lee Green, in a two-story semi-detached, one ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1949

I spent my first five years 1924-1929 in Blindley Heath, possibly the nicest years of my life. I may have gone to the school there. I clearly remember Gibb's store when I spent six glorious ...Read more

A memory of Blindley Heath in 1920 by Stanley Austin

I moved from Houslow to Isleworth in about 1961. We lived off the Thornbury Road in Eversley Cresent. I used to play in Osterley Park and walk my dog there as a child. It's a beautiful park. My elder sister Wendy and I ...Read more

A memory of Osterley in 1965 by Mike Beetham

I was born on High Street in Treorchy in 1959 in the house that belonged to my grandparents and that my mother still lives in today! We moved to Stafford in 1962 for work for my Dad but came to visit Treorchy a few times a year. I ...Read more

A memory of Treorchy in 1969 by Ellen Lockley

Most of my family were born in East and West Mersea, my great-grandfather Robert Percy Woods, born 1890, born in East Mersea and was a farmer ,my great-grandmother Emma French born 1891 West Mersea, her parents were also ...Read more

A memory of East Mersea by Diane Baker