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In 1970-72 I worked for a man in Sydney, Australia who told me that his Great-Grand-Mother came from the Isle of Wight, and that is all that he knew of his 'roots'. In 2015 I said that I would try and find some more ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by Mr. Gerald Rickwood

In 1949 I and a friend cycled out from Eastcote, just trying to reach beyond the urban sprawl. I know we came to West Hyde. What lead us to the banks of the Grand Union Canal, I fail to remember. About half a mile or so, we came on an ...Read more

A memory of West Hyde by Peter Giles

Roger... After reading your recollections of the Woodsend Road I hope you don't mind me adding to your list of memories. It fair to say before I start to write we do know one another and by now we both have a lot of ...Read more

A memory of Flixton by yumapair6

I was born in the flats in Dudley road in 1947 my mum [joyce] always told me extremely hot summer and freezing cold winter used to play gasworks a lot my grandparents lived at the end of stoney lane inside the gates north ...Read more

A memory of Southall by michael.barton3

My family lived in Westbrook Road, off West Town Lane, Brislington, from early 1949 until April 21 1958, when I was just over 11 years old. We suddenly left on that day and moved to Hertfordshire, and apart from one ...Read more

A memory of Brislington by wbrk1958apr21

I left Crewe in February 1966. I was in 3T at Ludford st school for Girls. if you remember me or were someone I went to school with, Please join us between now and 4th March I am on ...Read more

A memory of Crewe by Pamela Fawcett, (Brownell)

Life began on 29th January 1944 in Bexleyheath. We lived in a small conjoined house at number 12 Rowan Road. Born to parents Leonard George and Dorothy Beresford just before the end of WW11. ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Paul Beresford

The title is taken from a Cloughjordan native and Irish patriot Thomas MacDonagh. Cloughjordan is quiet village located between the towns of Nenagh, Roscrea and Birr. A village that was borne from a Medieval Castle ...Read more

A memory of Cloughjordan by sea.costello

I was at school at Tylers Croft school in 1957 for 18 months before we moved to Oxfordshire. I remember walking to school from where I lived in Salmon Street, along Slough Lane and passed the Green Man pub and crossing over the Kingsbury ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by carole.gentry

I was at the prep school from 47 to 51 and then moved to the senior school. John Vivian Keith Marshall Stephen Impey and Geoffrey Ellis amongst many others were all in the same forms as me during that time. Mr Gobles took over some time in ...Read more

A memory of Harrow by nola