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As a child I can remember cycling from Oxford Road, Waterloo to Blundellsands. I then went via what was I think Dibbs Lane leading to Little Crosby where I can remember watching the fields being ploughed using ...Read more

A memory of Blundellsands

I am writing a history of my father and he was born in Battersea (Cologne Road) in 1916 and lived there until he joined the army in 1939. He attended Plough Road School And he was a member of the 4th Battersea Scout Troop. I am ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by lesley.grainge

Remember walking up and down that hill in the 50`s from Boyn Hill road to catch a bus to Slough to attend the tech college off Williams street Slough.

A memory of Maidenhead by fernandoferreira76

Yes Patricia, I too remember Slough High Street at that time. I worked for Macfisheries that you mentioned with the fruit and veg shop next door. Smiths stationers a couple of doors away. In particular I remember many lunch ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Anthony Rees

I lived in Balham on Carminia Road from 1940 to 1948 and then moved to Slough. I remember the V1 and V2 attacks towards the end of the war and the gas masks us kids carried around with us all the time. On Bedford Hill I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Balham by gdfejf

We were the Hobbis family and we lived at 54 Oak tree Lane, Selly Oak with my parents and grandmother. The house was directly opposite the old Selly Oak Hospital. I can remember the re-building of the hospital and sadly now ...Read more

A memory of Birmingham by purple-cielo

I was born in hillingdon hospital in 1956 and from the early nineteen sixties to nineteen ninety five we lived first long readings lane and then we moved to Doddsfield road things I remember most ...Read more

A memory of Slough by linenhall20

I remember in 1948 at age 5 years old staying at Monkham Farm with my aunt Ann Maddock and walking behind two cart horses and a single furrow plough with my cousin Deryck Maddock and the furrows being up to my knees. There was no ...Read more

A memory of Luxborough by Gerald Bull

My Grandparents, Charlie and Frances Hawkins used to live at 1 Whites Hill in Tilmanstone, in the 60s and 70s. Back then it was a little white wooden house,a two up two down, with up and down wooden floors with ...Read more

A memory of Tilmanstone by wendyhawkins1961

I remember both the Adelphi and the Carlton very well, and was still in possession of a membership card for one of these venues which was Two Shillings for the year 1960/61, until fairly recently. I seem ...Read more

A memory of Slough