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I went to school in Bexleyheath between 1950 and 1954. I believe the school was in Pelham Road but I can't be sure. Maybe there was a separate infants department in North Street? My first ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by John Howard Norfolk

Were they happy years? I suppose they were, although we were very poor as kids we made the best of it, my memories were of the trams clattering up manchester road, which we used to take to go to the swimming ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1950 by Frank Broughton

I was in hospital most of my life but I remember I stayed here the longest, there was a matron who looked after us, tall with glasses, and there was a part you went in where you went to school . There was a teacher who came to ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1973 by Denise Hardman

I was born in Epsom and lived in Belmont all my childhood. I attended Cotswold Road Primary School and also the Sunday School that was there on a Sunday. The building was knocked down in the 1980s, it was opened in the 1890s and I ...Read more

A memory of Belmont by Catherine Johnston

Back in the 1950's I can remember living in No 1 Bertrey Cottages, Single Street very near Berrys Green. I can remember the Berrys Green Post Office where we could buy sweets by spending as little as a farthing. A ...Read more

A memory of Berry's Maple in 1950 by Raymond Marks

Ryhill Reservoir was the place where my sister Mary took me in the summer months, mainly on Sundays, and at that time there was a small shop which sold ice cream and pop and also fishing nets attached to a bamboo cane; there were plenty ...Read more

A memory of Ryhill in 1961 by Roland Mitchell

I went to Meonstoke School in 1976, soon after moving back to Hampshire from Cornwall. We lived for a while with my Gran Tricia Howe at Govers Cottage, who still lives there today! The School always smelt of Germolene!

A memory of Meonstoke in 1976 by Catherine Howe

I was born in 4 The Nursery in 1944. My gran Elizabeth Bayles, my mother Emma Bayles. I went to Millbank School at age 4yrs. I can remember my first teacher there Miss Watkins. My Mother worked at Lockeys buses as a bus ...Read more

A memory of West Auckland in 1953 by Christine Bayles

I'm interested in King Charles Road because my grandparents lived there in a house named 'Mount Nelson' (is it still there I wonder?). My mother was born there in 1904 and then the family moved to a new house( around 1935 I ...Read more

A memory of Surbiton in 1900

I wonder if anyone is old enough to remember Westgate on Sea before the war! Our family would go there every year for 2 weeks and stay at a guest house not far from where the railway crosses the road ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea in 1930