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I lived there just opposite St Clements Church. Ordsall park at the bottom of the road. Went to Ordsall board school then secondary modern school. Remember the ice cream cart pulled by horse. Bonfire in Archie st. Going to the pics Boro. ...Read more

A memory of Salford by lindasmith10

Hi everyone Lived Thicket Road circa 1975 till 1979 Lived in bed sitters at 33 thicket road along with carol Fred Bobby and others crazy days Did a brief stint at Southern Relief in Anerly Hill Out of ...Read more

A memory of Crystal Palace by blueyonder2011

How nice to read about Drayton. My parents moved here in 1953 and my father owned the chemists shop on the north side of Havant road opposite Lower Drayton lane. In the early 60s,I played in local groups (The ...Read more

A memory of Drayton by denloc142

I was born in Cambridge Road. My family were the Pearsons. My Nana Renee Pearson took in lodgers after my Grandad Arthur died. She worked in chippy aswell. My mum was Valerie Pearson nee Johnstone. My dad is Michael and his brother ...Read more

A memory of Cargo Fleet by sharon.pearson1964

Man often seen in windsor running in white plimsols, with hand cart, does anyone remember this man and his name?

A memory of Windsor in 1959 by Janet Ellis

wonderful memories of growing up in tooting. I was born in 1939 and can vaguely remember the end of the war. I remember the rationing, and often wonder how our parents managed, I was one of four, so often had hand me down clothes, I ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by Faye Connolly

My family had our greengrocer's stall in the front of the Saturday market facing Pearson's department shop. We were there for years, first my granddad, dad and uncle and then my brother, Thompson's greengrocery. Brings back ...Read more

A memory of Enfield by Rita Thompson Marston

My Dad, Sid Brooks was the rural village police constable (P.c.200) for Cropwell Butler, Cropwell Bishop and Tythby We, Mum (Dorothy) and my younger brother Mick lived in the Police House on Radcliffe Road, ...Read more

A memory of Cropwell Butler in 1940 by peterb6136

I have recently discovered, from the 1881 Census, that my great-grandmother was, with her younger sister, in domestic service to the family of Henry Stonex at no.35 Regent Road.He is described as 'organist and music ...Read more

A memory of Great Yarmouth in 1880 by Frances Golynia

Going ‘down the village’ pretty much referred to the stretch of Cove Road, between Hazel Avenue and Marrowbrooke Lane, where most of the shops were. Once upon a time Cove must have been the typical English village: two houses, three pubs ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by Alan Hickman