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Although my brothers martin n david have moved away am still here back at home helping mum with dad.Know 2 friends hav left this world cherly myers & my best friend leigh staniforth miss him greatly but also losing last remaining ...Read more

A memory of Old Denaby by Jamie Cocksedge

This was one of my Dad's favourite pubs, along with the Leigh Arms in Sale Moor. I used to go to the Warwick for the Saturday matinee and meet my Dad after. We lived in Kershaw Ave, Sale Moor and I went to Norris Rd School. I have very many happy days from Sale Moor and Sale.

A memory of Sale in 1962 by Carole Jones

My name is Malcolm Snow, I was born in 1939. I grew up in 7, Bleinheim Rd. My Dad was Les Snow from Fair Oak, and Flo Jennings from Eastleigh, Grandparents where Frank and Annie Snow, and Louisa Jennings later to be Mellish. Grandad ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh by thesnows

We lived in Chalfont until 1961 when we moved to Leigh-on-sea. I lived up the footpath in a bungalow at the side of the garage, opposite The Pheasant pub. I remember putting pennies around the green, and shopping in ...Read more

A memory of Chalfont St Giles in 1956 by Susan Dalton

I was 10 when Featherstone Rovers beat Wigan and Leigh in getting to the Wembley final.  We lived in the school house immediately opposite the entrance on Post Office Road.  What a wonderful period in ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1952 by Neil Wilford

I was born at 15 Factory Road in 1936 and left to work in London in 1954. I cannot recognise the shops in the High Street photo. 'Detective' tells me that the view must be from the Factory Road/High Street corner, ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1950 by John Scott

That would be Scotts Bakery to the right, surprising us with sliced bread!!! in the 50's and Jump's Dairy to the right foreground; their cows would come in through that gap between the front and the other shops further down. ...Read more

A memory of Crosby by John Kelly

I used to go to Wendover Primary School when it was situated beside the clock tower. The head master was then H. J. Figg Edgington. I began in Mrs Tott's class, then Mrs Connolly's, then Mr Spencer's, then Gertrude Agatha ...Read more

A memory of Wendover in 1958 by Glenys Houghton

IIRC, the "Westcliffe Belle" was a conversion by Johnson & Jago, Boatbuilders of leigh-on-Sea, of one of the big sailing yawls or ketches that had worked off the ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by julian

With three Christian names, William Henry John, you'd wonder why my dad chose to be called Jack. A surveyor for the county, he died in 1943; but not before building Mum and myself a bungalow at 53 Herbert Road. Back ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by Peter Williams