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The first shop with the lattice windows was a café. Before this but separated by an alley way was Mr Green, the Butchers. There was sawdust all over the floor and just under the cashier's porthole at the back of the shop was a ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath by Heather Lee

my name then was healey,i remember going to school in the village and going to church three times on a sunday,my brother also Terry was evacuated just in the next village,Friday at school was that we could ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford

Some of you may remember me from reading this! Some of you may choose to forget! More than likely the latter! Sadly, My brother was the main trouble maker in the village and wherever he went, I had to go with him, ...Read more

A memory of Ludgershall by Steve Dixon

I was born at the maternity hospital in 1951, My parents and I lived at 24 Clifton Road while I was a baby but moved to 66 Park Avenue as my mother could not abide my father's mother. I attended St Oswalds C of E ...Read more

A memory of Ashbourne by gordon.braddock

I lived in Foulden in the mid 1950's. I don't have any memories as such, as I was but a baby when we were there. As I understand it, my father was working for Lord Amherst as a pig breeder / herdsman and we lived in a tied ...Read more

A memory of Foulden by John Andrew

I remember this well as I started here in 1953. It was in Merrow Street (on the site of the new school) had a solid flint fascia and the main curved archway at the front of the school which boasted 'the fear of the Lord ...Read more

A memory of Merrow by sandra

Where local people were invited to watch the film of Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953. There wasn't a screen, just curtains which moved about a bit. The Hall was used for the Tenant's Association's children's Christmas parties ...Read more

A memory of Merrow by sandra

Hi everyone Lived Thicket Road circa 1975 till 1979 Lived in bed sitters at 33 thicket road along with carol Fred Bobby and others crazy days Did a brief stint at Southern Relief in Anerly Hill Out of ...Read more

A memory of Crystal Palace by blueyonder2011

I have no memories of Hillside as I was the baby, but would love to talk to any mothers who were there in 1962 - to 1963, or see any pictures!

A memory of Harrow on the Hill by rachel.cass

We moved to Southall when my brother Peter was two 1959/60 From a maisonettes in Hayes. I remember my dad had a lot of work to do in the house in Greenford Avenue as when we moved in it had creosote on doors and dark green paint. ...Read more

A memory of Southall by frances.nana6