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I remember the shop very well owned by Ernie and Florrie Stimpson I used to do papers for him he also served the hospital back in the day with sweets he’d take them over in a Pram the go round the wards , every one used to get the ...Read more

A memory of Flixton by longy748

The Mystery Bridge across the Mill Brook in Baguley. I was born in September 1946 and lived in Overdale Road Benchill before moving to Fouracers Road in Baguley about 1951. The Lanes, Farms and ...Read more

A memory of Wythenshawe by christopher.bowden

I was born and raised in Penge I lived in Kingswood road and went to Oakfield road school for boys there were three picture house in Penge The Essoldo which was a theatre at one time I can remember watching the Pantomimes there and ...Read more

A memory of Penge

My name is Peter Nutkins, I was born in 1939 and lived in Chesham Avenue for the first 24 years of my life. I worked for Arthur Black at Queensway Radio as a TV engineer for a number of years in the '50s and '60s, so got to know quite ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood by higherspence

When I was small, my brother and I used to play at the brooke near the school. I went too. We used to put our feet in the water and try to catch fish. When we were older and the waterfall was low we used to walk over it. ...Read more

A memory of Blakeney in 1945 by Rosemary Fortnum

Further to my last post on Crook memories I have done a little more digging. OK! I know it is not exactly Crook but I am sure that there may be strangers-yet-uncles or aunts still there and I am not going to find them by remaining ...Read more

A memory of Crook in 1930 by Nigel Marsh

My friend Raymond Slinn was the last bar man to work in the Adelphie Hotel and he was telling me about it when I stayed with him in his home in Tenerife where he is retired. Apparently when the Adelphie was pulled down grown men cried ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1965 by Ken Edwards

I used to live at No 52 on the left of the picture, in a flat on the 4th floor. I was only 7, I remember the first night while lying in bed I heard a screech of brakes and a dog yelping. The next morning my mum told me that a dog had ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1954 by Maxine Pickett

I lived above the shop at 18 Railway St., which is visible just past the lamp post, from 1952 to 1961. At that time it was a branch of MacFisheries, where my father was the manager. Next to it looking down the road was Brookes & ...Read more

A memory of Altrincham in 1952 by David Campbell

I was born in a third floor flat overlooking the Waterman's Almshouses in 1935. I spent the whole of  World War 2 in Penge with my family.  I remember the pub the Crooked Billet near to the Almshouses and next door a cycle shop, where I ...Read more

A memory of Penge by Julie Allen