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The Seagoing Years. I must have left the Army sometime in August or September of 1949, and went back to C.J.King & son, tug owners, to carry on with my job as deck boy. This was not to my ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1950 by Arthur Cottrell

The picture shows the Junior School assembly hall which also doubled for PE with neatly stowed ceiling ropes and wall ladders. The headmaster was Mr Dennis who I believe lived in nearby Smalls Mead. I remember Mrs Gowings ...Read more

A memory of Crawley in 1953

Some time in York I'd spend an hour or so within the Minster itself, and for me it was not fascination that brought me into the place; it was because its past history which was revealed. Take the Jews, many of which had came from Israel as ...Read more

A memory of York by Roland Mitchell

I was an apprentice plasterer for Joe Tredget, who llived in The Meads, Ongar Road, Brentwood. We did a lot of work, Prests Lane, and on The Mount. Remember Sity Busses, built its garages on the now Sainsbury's site?

A memory of Brentwood in 1930

My mother, then called Billie Gwilliam, was living in New Cross in South London with her parents Bill and Connie Gwilliam during the Blitz of the Second World War, and has many memories of what it was like ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1940 by Julia Skinner

Probably around 1964 for about three years I worked at Jennetts Restaurant at the Dorking crossroads, as a waiter, for Mr Lesley Hargreaves and his poodle, Trudy. In those days we did flambe cooking at the tables. The head ...Read more

A memory of Tadworth in 1964 by Terry Meades

The area known as Dan Y Parc is probably better known as the property of the Sandiman Family. They had a very large house which they vacated in the 1950's, and the house was demolished at the same time. I know very ...Read more

A memory of Dan y Parc in 1954 by David Palfrey

I can remember going to the Kings Head with my parents and their friends and spending time in the beer garden on the swing being given coke and crisps.

A memory of Bishop's Cleeve in 1960 by Bill Palmer

1954 and beyond really. I was born in 1949, and lived at No1 Tan Yr Ywen, with my mother. My late father John, died in in 1953(or 4) and as my dear mother has Altzeimers, memories of him are non-existant apart from a few ...Read more

A memory of Llanbedr in 1954 by Robert Thomas