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The Chocolate Box..... Anyone here remember my Grandad"s shop on Church Road. Cheadle Hulme. The Chocolate Box. Tobacconist and sweet shop. Grandad made all the ice lollues he sold. And on occasion , childten would come into the shop with a ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle Hulme by oscaralb

My Grandad Jones purchased 141 Caerau Rd from 2 ladies following WWII - it cost him a grand total of 450pounds. The ladies stayed on and rented a back room for a while before Grandad had his father Oliver, his father's mistress Martha and ...Read more

A memory of Caerau by bronwyn.howlett

I am trying to reconnect my long lost friend. Her first name is Elizabeth (Surname was "Noton" before marriage). She was from Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. I got the information that she used to work with ...Read more

A memory of Little Longstone by Sitanshu Mohan Banerjee

i grew up on the Barnet Way- the flats on the corner of the fairway, we attended Courtlands school Mr Bateman was the headmaster- and i still see my first teacher from 1970 in Edgware, near the music shop i now ...Read more

A memory of Mill Hill by john.filthyangel

I moved into Pillaton in 1950 at the age of 10 to a smallholding, High Kernock. It was a bit of a culture shock moving from Plymouth to a bungalow with no amenities at all but we got on fine. The viullage then had some amenities in the form ...Read more

A memory of Pillaton by josdave

Hi carol I was so pleased to read your post I too have many happy memories of Peckham and I remember you very well I am Chris Kindred; maybe the Chris you mention in your post I hope so I am still in touch with Graham Long and ...Read more

A memory of Peckham by ckindred100

I used to live in Hinton Avenue, off Barrack Road. I went to school in Martindale Road initially and then onwards to he Junior School in Cambridge Road leaving in 1961. Mr Such was headmaster, Mrs Wilson was my first teacher ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Graeme Pitt

Iam Weston born and bred from the age of 8 to15 I worked-with the Drew family on the beach with the donkeys and carriages from 1963-1970 I must have had my photo taken hundreds of times yet can't find any anyway of that ...Read more

A memory of Weston-super-Mare by c.hewlett7

It's quite some time since I submitted my 'War Times, and a bit more' and having read a few later submissions I thought I might as well add a few more observations. Many have suggested that for those who moved away many years ago ...Read more

A memory of Colindale by Jack Luxon

I lived in Camberwell from 1944 until when I married in 1964. There remains a small terrace of seven houses in Grove Lane called ‘Grove Lane Terrace’; they were built in the ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Richard Norman