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I remember my first day at the Royal Kent School – 8th November 1948 – as recorded at entry no. 1450 in the school's original Admissions Register. It was a few weeks into the Autumn term, as in ...Read more

A memory of Oxshott by Rose Phillips

Queuing up to go and see our films on a Saturday morning and singing the song about the abc minors. The words are as follows.We are the boys and girls well known as minors of the abc and every Saturday we ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by Kathleen White

i remember the headmaster caning you backside until it bled, and he soaked the cane in salt water! also his dog walked around the dining room with excrement hanging from his backside!! not happy days for me??

A memory of Sandon by Peter Welsh

My Nan Kirby (Cozens and nee Annetts) lived in a bungalow in Woodfield. Memories of visiting her include sitting in front of a roaring fire with a large central dining table with a soft red tablecloth overhanging ...Read more

A memory of Kingsley by D Toovey

I have a large sepia photo hanging in the hallway of my grandparents and some of their children walking on the banks of the river in 1922. My mother is 8 yrs old. At the time they lived in Tredegar. How can I send a copy of the picture as an attachment?

A memory of Sirhowy River

I lived on Dolobran Road Sparkhill from 1956 (DATE OF BIRTH) to around 1962 when we moved to Northfield. We were the only double fronted house on the street and we fronted Lime Grove where my grandmother lived at Number 1. ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook by Karen Bevis

Hi, came on this site by accident, I was born at 12 Rutland Rd in 1966 and had wonderful memories of playing in the street ( unheard of now ) and the jubilee park and library, off to the "top shops " on Allenby road, anyone remember ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Roger Wall

I have so many memories of this place. I was born in Martley Drive, 1947, my grandparents originally bought the house back in the 1920s when they moved from Bethnal Green. It was a good place to live, I went to ...Read more

A memory of Ilford by Barbara Budd

I first came to Southfield House shortly after I was born in Falkirk in 1935 with my mother & father - Dorothy & Robert Barr. We lived there until I was 15 years. My brother Robin and sister Katie came along after me. To ...Read more

A memory of Slamannan in 1930 by Patricia Garwasiuk

My memory of Quebec was the Co-op store and the swings next to the football ground, also when I was a boy I worked for Tommy Quinn on his farm delivering the milk then helping out with the animals, them were the days, hanging on the ...Read more

A memory of Quebec in 1960 by Kenneth Chapman