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I was born in Pencarwick Nursing Home Exmouth on 7 December 1940. The Principal was Mrs M.E.Hodges My mother left London sometime beforehand with my two elder brothers aged 2 and 6. She left London to avoid the bombing. I ...Read more

A memory of Exmouth by b.durrant

My father owned the corner shop (newsagents) adjacent to Park View Road, opposite Holy Trinity church from 1961 until it was pulled down in 1968. My parents, sister, brother and I lived in the accommodation ...Read more

A memory of Southall by soberty1956

I was raised in Penge - spending most of my time enjoying playing on bomb sites and the change from post war austerity to the better times of the early sixties - and can remember many of the photos displayed. I moved to ...Read more

A memory of Penge by jananchrisx

1 lived in Erith until 1970 born in 1932 at 7 Athol road off of Deluci road which is next to the old Tivoli cinema we move there in 1934 from west street we had incenderies drop on our house in 1942 my father ...Read more

A memory of Erith by george28532

My name is Bill Dedman i was born in Mitcham 23 Bath Road Known has Redskin Village All so Rocky I went to Lower Mitcham School and Western Road School i still live in Mitcham my first memories are the bombing and the Doodle bugs, the ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by wdedman1

Hi Geoffrey Schwalbe! I've only just discovered this Site. I think we were in the same class at Glenwood School from 1954 to 1956. Teachers I recall were: Headmistress Doris Anderson, Mr Dyde, also Freeman, Marsh and Vallum. ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by davidyendall45

Life began on 29th January 1944 in Bexleyheath. We lived in a small conjoined house at number 12 Rowan Road. Born to parents Leonard George and Dorothy Beresford just before the end of WW11. ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Paul Beresford

I was born in Addlestone in what was Kingthorpe nursing home in 1944 (no nhs then)my father worked for Vickers Armstrong at Byfleet. My father was born in Cailard road Byfleet the same road as my mother was born. He is now 96 years old ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by jenniferchapman67

My family moved to Kingsley Avenue from Acton when I was four, and when I started at North Road Infants School, my mother hid me behind the blackboard and easel because I cried! But I progressed from there to the ...Read more

A memory of Southall by david.r.curtis

My parents home was in Costons Avenue in Greenford, I was born there in 1937 and lived there for 30 years. The rear of our house looked out to trees which grew on the boundary of Perivale Park some eighty yards away across ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by vincentlees