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My mother has many memories of Thornley as a pupil at Thornley Colliery Primary School, and other village life, her name was OLIVE STANLEY. She lived at Colinwood Street, No1, with her mother Ethel Tonkin and ...Read more

A memory of Thornley by Edward Stanley

My father, Herbert Stanley Cole, was the eldest son of the Postmaster, Albert Henry Cole.  He lived here from the early 1900s until about 1945.  His mother Victoria Kate Cole, ran the shop and they also operated the telephone ...Read more

A memory of Horning in 1920

I grew up in Heaton Park. Stanley Street. The Prestwich and Whitefield Guide Office was at the top of the street. I went to St. Hilda's School and at 11 went to Hope Park School for Girls. My earliest recollections are ...Read more

A memory of Prestwich by Astrid Zimmer

I moved to Chawson Crossing with my parents and sister Joan in 1935/36. My father was a railway worker and the house went with the job. The people next door were named Nicklin. I attended Salwarpe school with some of the Nicklin ...Read more

A memory of Salwarpe in 1930 by Horace Hadland

The day after our trip to London, I woke in the morning and was told to immediately get dressed and put on my new shoes and overcoat by mother. We dropped Bernard at Aldersbrook School and then caught a bus into Wanstead Tube ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1950 by Gordon Mays Baird

Does anyone have old photos of Baker Lane or Canal Road in Stanley, or any information about the Littlewood family that lived there in the early 1900's - please help if you can, thank you .....Peter Littlewood.

A memory of Normanton in 1900 by Peter Littlewood

I lived in a number of houses in the area starting with Elstree Gardens in Lower Belvedere, where I went to St Augustines. I remember winning a raffle and taking a bunch of flowers home to my mum and my first goal ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere in 1961 by Steve Deveson

Hello, Does anyone remember Phillip Ladd's nursery on Goldsel Rd? I worked there 1955 to 1961, was in the boilerhouse in the winter and outside in the summer! Frank Weatherby was the Foreman, remember Len Christmas he came ...Read more

A memory of Swanley in 1955 by Brian Trimmer

I was at Collingwood Preparatory from 1963-66. To say it was strict would be an immense understatement. It was brutal. John Richardson beat me on the hand with a ruler for getting poor marks in a maths test. As we ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1966 by Guy Nicholls

I was born at 124 Clowes Street, West Gorton in 1947 and attended St Marks' School between 1953 and 1959. The Head was the formidable Mrs Clayton, and the Deputy Head was Mr Platt, but it was the ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1947 by John Holmes