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During the years 1960 to 1967, aged 4 thru 11, this was my playground, as well as the Devonshire Park behind to the left. My parents ran the Devonshire Park Hotel during this time in Compton Street, an old ...Read more

A memory of Eastbourne by Paul Biancheri

I was born in Aldershot in 1950, went to Newport road infants/primary school then on to Manor Park Secondary Modern school. The first year though had to go to North Camp Buller Barracks as there was no room until ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by joycemghandour

I remember going on the bus from Normanton with my Mum and Dad to Pontefract park ... and rowing around the lake ...Come in number 7 ... sometimes Dad and I would walk over the fields ..up Loscoe lane to Featherstone and on to ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract by Pauline Wood Degnan

We came to live in East Bowling in 1948 (Caryl Road, just a stone's throw from the former Bolling Girls' Grammar School). Trams (soon to be replaced by trolley buses) were still running up and down Wakefield Road. I went to Lorne Street ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by whittingham.barry

I grew up in Bedgebury rd in 1961 and attended Ealdham sq under the headmaster mf thee and the intrepid Mrs blyde music teacher,had really good schooling and then went to Eltham green which was a huge ,vast building with hundreds of ...Read more

A memory of Eltham by garytaylor512

Hello everyone Wow what a joy and pleasure to find this site. I didn't realise this existed until a short time ago. Anyway for some years I've been trying to locate (on Google maps streetview) the old house that was once ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Nick Jay

I was born in 1936 so I am probably one of the oldest people with fond memories of Barking. I first went to Gascoigne School and can remember having to practise wearing a gas mask during the war- horrible smelly rubbery ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1930 by Pamela Purnell

I came to Bletchley in 1968 for an interview at the Meat and Livestock Commission. Got off the train and asked an elderly gentleman where "Queensway" was. He shook his head and said he did not know! I have fond memories of Bletchley (as ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley by Rosemary Farr

I lived not very far from Gelli Park and used to play on the swings and roundabout and watch the men and women play bowls on the bowling lawns many years ago... sometimes with my father in the late early 1950's into the 60's, before we moved away to live. I was born in 1943. Brings back memories.

A memory of Ton Pentre by Brian Neale

Anyone remember the Amelia coffee bar in Oakwood at the end of Station Parade shops, where the beat set would frequent in the early 60's, then the Mods as the juke box was popular and coffee with froth in glass cups? I lived at ...Read more

A memory of Oakwood in 1961 by Christopher Liddle