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I was at the Convent when this picture was taken. In the foreground you can see the tennis courts. Our dormitories were on the 'Top Landing', the windows you can see on the second floor. The Convent was run by the order of St ...Read more

A memory of Lechlade on Thames in 1960 by Lesley Hayward

My family lived at 3 Downsway just off Southlands Avenue.  I had two older brothers when we arrived and by 1966 I had two more and a sister. My older brothers and I attended Warren Road Primary and I ...Read more

A memory of Orpington in 1965 by Peter Browning

Many of my family lived in Ayot St Lawrence, pre and post war. Both sets of grandparents lived there. Arthur and Elsie Smith, lived at Forge Cottage and worked at Ayot Cottage & later worked at Abbotshay Farm and ...Read more

A memory of Ayot St Lawrence in 1948 by Pauline Harding

I lived at Long Green where my father was a shepherd at St Lawrence Farm. I went to Bumbles Green Primary School where Mr & Mrs Hills lived in the schoolhouse. At that time Mr Brent had the grocery shop, the ...Read more

A memory of Nazeing in 1960 by Alexander Hutcheon

I got Marred there on 24th March 1965. It was a beautiful hot day for the time of the year, I was born in 1946 in Dudley Drive and went to school at Hatfield. I used to love playing in the woods, climbing trees and paddling in the ...Read more

A memory of Morden by angela.richens

Have just come across this site by accident, and was amazed by the number of names I recognised from my childhood. I lived at no.82 celandine road from about 1953/54 until we moved to Fullerton crescent about 1965 approx. My name ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by tinker3110

I was born in 1932 at 36,Priory Ave. & went to Crofton Lane School & ST Dunstans Prep,run by Mr & Major Cole. After attending various schools around the country during the war I ended up at Alleyns ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood by jawcricket

I was born in 1932 at 36,Priory Ave. & went to Crofton Lane School & ST Dunstans Prep,run by Mr & Major Cole. After attending various schools around the country during the war I ended up at Alleyns ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood by jawcricket

When I was 10 or eleven I had a paper round and my first paper had to be delivered to the post office shown by 6:00 am. to catch the mail. The news agent was just opposite the recreation ground where Chobham Football club played. My ...Read more

A memory of Chobham by David Hewson

I was born in a house on the Eastern Avenue between Cantly gardens and Denham Drive in 1955. I moved to wales to go to uni in 1975. I worked as a Saturday girl in Barton’s the bakers in Gants Hill for a ridiculously low wage. ...Read more

A memory of Gants Hill by Gill Fitzgibbon