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I am Philip Hopkins, born 1952 and moved the Ostels when I was 6 months old and lived there till I was 10. We lived in the posh part of the Ostels (brick built), I think the hostel had two bedrooms and was in a place called ...Read more

A memory of Abergarw in 1958 by Philip Hopkins

I was born in Runnymede Gardens, near the Bridge Hotel and Greenford roundabout in 1939. I remember Spitfires flying from Northolt and a V1 rocket that (I think) hit part of Glaxo laboratories in 1944. I was in the garden, aged ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Peter Simkins

In 1955 I joined the youth club that met in the Evangelical Church at the bottom of Princes Road. We met every Thursday evening and half way through the evening, games of 5 a side football, table tennis etc would come to a stop and ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1955 by Derek Kayes Knight

Yes, I remember this street so well as a young boy, I lived up Crossgate at the Angel Inn then Claypath at The Wheatsheaf. I was Christened at St Margarets half way up Crossgate and went to school at The Blue Coat, ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1940 by Rob Beilby

My name was Mandy Donaldson and I'm the daughter of Joan Ellis. My grandparents names were Kath and Ernest Ellis. Aunts and Uncles were/are John and Joyce Ellis (they ran the local taxi), Roger Ellis, Bob and Wendy Ellis and Jennifer ...Read more

A memory of Binbrook in 1965 by Mandy Brew

Adams had a poultry farm in Duck Pond Lane (left hand side of Sainsburys). They lived in a big grand house at the bottom of Woodchurch Lane; it fronted onto Prenton Road West. There was a plaque on the outhouse door ...Read more

A memory of Oxton in 1954 by David Wharton

I can remember Huyton when it was a village, in the 1950s. The Police Station was at the end of Derby Rd. not far from St Micheal's Church. At the other end was Richardson's , a grocery shop which often had a ginger cat on the steps. My ...Read more

A memory of Huyton by Ruth Gaulton

I lived in Tunley Road, Balham from 1938 to 1949, I remember the day the V2 hit at the end of the road, and I lost friends. I went to Ravenstone School until 1949. There were 3 of us, Maureen Smith, Maureen Green and me Valerie Smith, ...Read more

A memory of Tooting

I was born at no 3 Melville St in 1947 - which is long gone but not forgotten. The row of houses used to be opposite a butchers factory with a large store adjoining High St. My grandfather used to keep pigs in the garden ...Read more

A memory of Wombwell in 1955 by Michael Henderson

A memory that I shouldn't recollect. I could have only been about 4 years old and I can remember staying at Heath Lodge with my family. It was I think used as a halfway house for families waiting for housing in the ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1964 by Alun Jenkins