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My parents lived with my grandfather - Harry Fiddleman, at 41 Lower Addiscombe Road. Grandfather was a hairdresser so we lived behind and above the shop. I was born at St Mary's Maternity Home. I cannot find any references to this 'Home' ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1953

My brother in law was to look after pigs at a farm which I believed belonged to a Major Wills in Thatcham. Now it was the summer time and as far as I can recall my sister had not long since had a baby and that she was somewhat ...Read more

A memory of Thatcham in 1959 by Roland Mitchell

My mother died when I was a baby, my father died when I was about 12/13. My name was Theresa Byrne, my family, brothers sisters etc were separated and I was sent to the Lea in Denham where I was raised by a couple named ...Read more

A memory of Denham in 1956 by Theresa Casarez

I was very interested to read Elisabeth's account.I used to teach at Belchamp Walter School and have many happy memories of my time there with Mrs Pearson, she was a remarkable person. Married to a local ...Read more

A memory of Belchamp Walter in 1950 by Doreen Edwards

I was born in Reading in May 1945, came to 'middle' Derinton Road in Tooting as a baby (mum had been evacuated) to live with her, my dad, nan, grandad and my aunty Joyce until we moved to Streatham in, I think in 1956. But my nan, Polly ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Maureen Dove

Performed there in Royal Follies 1961 - can't remember all the cast but remember the tenor, Barry Harries, Jack Escott and his 'wife/partner', who was the choreographer. The comic Jimmy Malbourn, and his wife Joyce ...Read more

A memory of Morecambe in 1961 by Valerie Mac Dougall

I was happily transported back to my childhood reading some of the memories on this page and thought I would share some of my own. I was born in 1951 in a tiny one up, one down house in Laneside, Yews Green. ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury in 1951 by Anne Clarke

I visited the house with my 2nd cousins as their mother, Ethel Smith, and my grandmother, Rosa Matilda Smith, lived in the house with their family for many, many years until the last of the Smiths living in the house died, ...Read more

A memory of Mells in 1972 by Lyn Mews

In 1944, I was evacuated to Badshot Lea, with my mum. My dad, as a plumber & vital to the war effort, was in Liverpool & not in Europe or elsewhere in the Theatre of war. I can remember as a 4 year old, standing, I think, ...Read more

A memory of Badshot Lea in 1944 by Ron Bowdery

I was brought up in Birkburn Road in Kirkconnel to parents, John and Joan White. We lived there until we went to live in England, March 28th, 1964. I loved living there with my gran 'n grandad; just down the road from us were Janet ...Read more

A memory of Kirkconnel by Janet Simmons