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I was 19 when the fire happened and engaged to be marred my wife to be Joan and I would spend hours in the store mostly looking at the furniture we could not afford ( but one could dream) we lived at Barkingside and could see the ...Read more

A memory of Ilford by geoffreycarter01

Hello.i feel so bad for you guys.im a daughter of one of those nurses and i can assure you.it never stopped in the hospital.i have read all your messages and it took me back to a child living this hell.im still scared from my ...Read more

A memory of Hornsea

I moved to Three Bridges when I was 4 years old, in 1958, with my parents and twin brother Andrew. We lived in Mill Road. Heavens how it’s all changed. Gone are the open spaces at the bottom of the road, where we ...Read more

A memory of Three Bridges by kfosdike2

As an innocent 11year old in August 1957, I had my first experience of camping in a field in Stanton Fitzwarren. I belonged to a Scout troop from Woolwich in South East London. Most of us came from a poor area of ...Read more

A memory of Stanton Fitzwarren by ianhilton

Looking through some of these memories has brought back some happy times. I left Caversham Sec' Mod' in 1958 and within 3 weeks I was in the navy. There were many happy times at school though, especially those ballroom sessions ...Read more

A memory of Caversham by poroldpete

My grt grandmother, Annie Murdoch nee Young, spent the last 40 or so years at Plantation Cottage (now Murdoch Cottage), Wamphray. I only met her once in 1954 and she is my first memory. Born on 8th August 1862, Crosshill Village, ...Read more

A memory of Wamphray by geomurdo1

As a child I lived at no 52, opposite the “Conker “ tree, next to the stink pipe and transformer. Lovely memories of roller skates, bikes and school at nork primary.

A memory of Nork by A.H.Fulcher

We used to visit my Gran and Grandad, Florence Daisy and George Humberstone every summer. They lived at The Bungalow, Front Street (Main Street?) This was on the same side and just past the bus depot heading ...Read more

A memory of North Somercotes by maggie.ledger3

I live in Australia now . I grew up on Alan Avenue [off Lord Lane] . I was the eldest of 5 children [the Martins] . We had a great life there. I have countless memories of those days in the early 1960s. Walking to Stansfield Road school. ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth by andy9martin

I went to school here, 1958-1964 there exist photos of the school but so far none with the Frith Collection. The school was opposite Central Station in Vale Road and resembled a large shoebox ...Read more

A memory of Tunbridge Wells by The Hon Paul Randolph Welsby