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I remember going to Alma Road school back in the early fifties when they still gave you a good hiding with a cane if you got into trouble. We changed schools to the new Secondary School in Bexley Lane when it first ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup by Gerry Horn

I was born in Denholme but moved to Wilsden when I was two. I can remember arriving in the back of a furniture truck. It was a lovely life for a child, even after the war started. Most of the dads were away fighting but the ...Read more

A memory of Wilsden in 1930 by Shirley Jones

Ive found out that the village school, which was on the corner of Snowswick lane and the lechlade road, was knocked down for road widening. What I want to know is there any photos of the school. The road was never ...Read more

A memory of Buscot in 1955 by Donald Tomlin

I lived at 24 letterstone st from 1957 -68 it was pulled down under CPO my mum and were Bill and Elsie Kennedy I went to Heyworth st school 57 to 63 ~secondary school was Toxteth Tech god knows why me folks sent ...Read more

A memory of Everton in 1966 by David Kennedy

Living in Lewisham in what was Engate Street in the late 1950's Peter Pans Pool was to us like a holiday Park and I spent a lot of time there as a child even when we moved to Sydenham in 1960's. ...Read more

A memory of Catford by Rosemary Riddle

I was born in 1946 and lived in a house in South Road, not far from Jimmy Parkes the butcher. This was, of course, well before the advent of supermarkets. My mother and I used to walk from South Road, along Clifton ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge in 1949

I lived in Ashtead from the 1960s to about 1972 when my parents went back to Ireland. I went to St. Peters Primary School Leatherhead for two years,. This is a list of pals I used to hang out with ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead in 1970 by Patrick Mara

In the early years of our married life, no such luxury as owning a car, our means of transport was a tandem with a seat on the back for the little one and a bike for the older one, most Sundays it was off out into the country, Beeston Castle ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1952 by Ken Wood

my memory is a little vague, I am 77 years old now and have travelled a lot since then. I remember some of my teachers names Miss Cuff and her nephew Bernard Mr ...Read more

A memory of Annitsford in 1947 by Margaret Elias

I lived in Lindsey road and went to the school 1950 till 1963 I rember going to show at the winding way social barking and dagenham lidos

A memory of Chadwell Heath by Derek Porter