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remember being packed off to this boys home, well it was a self contained village really. every amenetie was taken care of church just inside the gates...school,,,,about 8/10 houses..the experience was quite ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by roywhitey

I lived at 6 Camborne Road, Welling with my mother Hermine Wright and my grandparents Fred and Elsie Wright from 1943 to 1948. I attended East Wickham Infants School, where my teacher was Miss Sharp. I think the year must ...Read more

A memory of Welling by xpristpher

I remember living on Perry Vale above the old bus garage, and my brother and I would go to Horniman Museum, then go about 400 yards behind and there was a castlelated building consisting of a basement first and ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hill by hubertgarner

1946 was the year that our family life in Nancledra began. What a relief it must have been to our parents, Peggy and Arthur Caddick to move into Windswept Cottage. The war years in London were over and they both felt a huge sense ...Read more

A memory of Nancledra by di

I remember the Manor House in Child Okeford, my mother worked for the Glassbrooks the then owner s of the manor, this was about 1943/44 and a battalion of the Newfoundland Army were billeted in the grounds. I as a 6 year old boy became ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford by jonjacley

Hello. Newbie here. Found site during an attempt to clear up some confusion on a Teams, Gateshead FB page. Is anyone out there an old pupil of Redheugh School, in Prest Street, during 50s and 60s? If so, you might be able to ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by edarlingb

I grew up living in Kingwood Road in the flats, firstly the last block 25a then when I was 5yrs to the first block 1f,which hold most of my memories. We would as kids in the street roller skate,play hopscotch,stretch our skipping ...Read more

A memory of Fulham by teresamary

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

My late father, Eric Palmer, was stationed at Burn Hope colliery during the second World War, where he worked as a 'Bevan Boy'. He had many memories of his time there which he often shared with my sister and I. He was very ...Read more

A memory of Burnhope by jane.wilson-brown

I was at Ealing Grammar School from 1968-1973. I remember a boy kicking a football close to this pond and his shoe coming off and flying in to the water. We had a history teacher - Mr Hayter - who was a keen fisherman and the ...Read more

A memory of Ealing