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As a young child, these were good days, we had very little but so did everybody else, Mum had a few chickens, and we lived in a little house on stilts, brick piers, my Dad was working for the Thames Valley, and when the ...Read more

A memory of Purley on Thames in 1954 by Micbhae,]]] Michael

My grandfather, John Williams, lived in a victorian terraced house in Seymour Road with his parents and four brothers. The house was knocked down and replaced with the large block of flats you can see in the distance to the centre of ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1940 by Julian Hight

For a young bus enthusiast in the 1960s, the bus station on Garth Road was the gateway to Anglesey and many of the country routes behind Bangor. Such exciting places as Gerlan, Bethesda, Tregarth and Rhiwlas could be ...Read more

A memory of Bangor in 1965 by John Owen

I attended Bersham School until 1950 and well remember the daily walk (or run) from 30 Wynnstay Crescent up West Grove to the school. I believe 1947 was the year that the winter flood happened and Gwylim Williams drowned near the ...Read more

A memory of Rhostyllen in 1947 by Leonard Hughes

We moved to East Ham from Bow when I was about 3 years old. I lived in Clements Road  there was Mum and Dad, Nan and Grandad and my brother. I went to Lathom School, where I met my first love. I also remember Mr Cordwell and ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1956 by Derek Burg

The original Chase Side Secondary School shared premises with the Chase Side Primary, although we had separate play grounds. Next to the school was the Birkbeck Hygenic Laundry with a huge chimney and a steam siren that sounded ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1954 by Roger Davis

As Mum went out to work fulltime, Nan looked after me before the age of 3.  She would take me shopping to this row of shops regularly. The shop with the long awning was a chemist's shop. There was also a Post Office, and ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1955

I remember going to my grandparents' house in Low Row, Addison. It was a colliery village and it was always a treat to go there in my summer holidays. The house was basically a two up, two down but the downstairs back ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1952 by John Wood

I grew up in Woodhouse Eaves from 1943-53, living in Beacon Road, number 65. My grandfather Handley lived in the last house in that row of white cement-rendered houses, it had the only garage in the row in which he kept his ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Michael Handley

Does anyone know of a place in Edgmond called Bullocks Row? My great grandmother Ada Charlotte Fox was living there in 1881 but I have been unable to find this address on any map. Any information or photos of this place would be ...Read more

A memory of Edgmond by Janice Dunbar