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Does anyone remember the old Furnivals bakery off the High Street in Gilfach? And the smell of the hot bread whenever one passed the place? And I also remember Brachetta's Cafe at bottom of the High Street, on the right hand ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1952 by Brian Brown

As a 'floor walker', or trainee Woolworth's manager, one was expected to work quite a lot of unpaid overtime especially over the Christmas period. For the anticipated Christmas rush much larger amounts of stock were ordered, resulting in ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1956 by Tommy Thomas

My strongest memories of Lewisham is there being three cinemas there. The Gaumont (where I saw the Beatles live in the 1960s) - I went to Saturday morning pictures there. The Rex cinema, just by the bridge ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham by Jackie Walder

My mother and father had a newsagent's shop on Tatton Street. They were Jack and Gladys Ackerley. We lived there until the mid 1960s. The shop was opposite The Duke Of Edinborough public house. I still remember lying in bed at night and ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1950 by Barbara Burgoyne

I came into this world in 1952 at the Alexandra Nursing Home in Muswell Hill. I lived in St Mary's Road off the High Street until 1960 when we moved to Hawthorn Road where I lived until 1974. My dad (Pete McCafferty) used to drink in ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1952 by Jan Carpenter

I remember going to Greenhill School when I was four. We lived in Greenhill House which was across the road, now demolished. Went to Gartsherrie Academy, later chummed around with Margaret Upton and Eleanor Lang. One girl I knew, ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge in 1950

I wonder if any one remembers the Surrey ice cream parlour, half way up Surrey Street on the left bottom of the steps leading up to the main road. Oh how I wished we could get ice. This was just after the war. I was born ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1940 by John Knapp

Does anybody out there remember the infamous gang murder near Inwood Park? I don't know about you, but it brought the Hounslow we all knew to an end. No more Joachims coffee bar, no more Ricki Tik Club, Hounslow became a ghost town! I ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1960 by Dave Rodham

I was 7 when we moved into 128 High Street, Aveley in 1942. Our back fence backed onto the rec' and my best friends were Donald Crawford, Ray Andrews and Bob ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1942 by Peter Gough

The formative years of my early childhood were spent at No. 39 Bondgate, Pontefract, which was one of a block of four small two-up, two-down houses situated immediately adjacent to the front ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract in 1930 by Graham Atkinson