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Seeing the photo of the 'Northwood Hills Hotel' and the tall 'office' building beyond, took me back to recall 'The Cleopatra Restaurant' that was ...Read more

A memory of Northwood Hills by Tim Deacon

We lived at 66 lancaster road Family of 5 Went to davis lane school Headmaster was called mr knowels! I remember he died while i was still at the school and replaced by mr windsor Loved playing in the fields, in the morning just before ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone by ksid64

I have written a series of memory articles that can be found on the http://www.barkinghistoricalsociety.co.uk/ under Vic's Memories. They cover all aspects of life in Barking from 1938 to about 1960. They ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Vic Howard

When I was a young lad I spent most of my school holidays at roughwood park With my grandad who was the grounds man for many years not sure for how many This was in the mid sixties His name was Cecil melonie. I drove past a ...Read more

A memory of Roughwood Park by mjdrew89

we lived at 15 relief st dysart in the early 50s moved there from kirkcaldy we had to move out when they started to demolish the place so sad it was great place to grow up in I was about six or seven yrs old when we moved there, went ...Read more

A memory of Dysart

I attended Kingsgate Primary School in the 1960's and left in the summer of 1970. I have only the fondest memories of my time there. I have often wondered what happened to my classmates and to our two fantastic teachers Mrs Triezman ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by tonybwgc

We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more

A memory of Teddington

I think it must have been 1952 or 3 when I went to live on Kingwood Common with my parents in the old nissen huts left by the German POWs, and afterwards by Polish refugees. We knew the place as Kingdom Camp, or just 'The ...Read more

A memory of Kingwood Common by richardhayes516

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

I moved to trowbridge when i was 5 and now am 55 and living in rumney. My childhood memories are of fields and lanes now gone forever. I remember standing outside the dairy that was on greenway road just past hendre road ...Read more

A memory of St Mellons by wesgate