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I am not a native of Aveley. I was born in Barking and spent most of my childhood in Dagenham. My father's sister and her husband moved to South Ockendon (Gatehope Drive) when I was very young. Every Sunday we would travel to see ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by alansindall

The 2nd July 2021 will mark the centenary of the opening of Cedars Park to the public. The park was given to the people of Cheshunt on 19th December 1919 and it took two years to transform the overgrown gardens of ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt by info.cedarspark

I was at the school from 1971 till 76. The head master was Hugh Fletcher, and the school principal Jasper French. The school was a home from home. I was allowed to join the scouts and also a model railway ...Read more

A memory of Great Sanders School by randall.alfred19

I lived in Shirley (Skelcher Rd) from about 1956 to 1959 and often played in Shirley Park. I remember one time on this roundabout I was set on by a group of older boys who spun me round at high speed. Luckily my ...Read more

A memory of Shirley by rtbcomp

I well remember travelling on this train from the Danson Road end along the lake to the engine shed. This was during the 1950's. The fare was 3d one way and 6d return. The gentleman who ran the service lived in the house ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by welchmt80

I was born in 1945 in sunningdale ave, hanworth, started infants national school in park road , then orial sec mod, then Debrome in boundries road next to the girls school lafone Hanworth has change quite a lot ...Read more

A memory of Hanworth by shephardr59

memory of a very wealthy city. Beautiful shops- Brown Muffs, busbys, claydons, mathias robinson. Barclays bank international division was in Bradford but not in Leeds because the overseas dealings with all wool ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by christine676

I lived in the model cottages on avenue road Tottenham throughout my childhood, what good times they were, I remember playing on the old railway embankment at the top of the road and many hours spent over chestnuts park, ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham by colin5050

It’s a rather sad fact that you only come to appreciate a town several years after you have left it. At the age of 19 I was sent to live and work in Stafford between 1964 and 1979, before ...Read more

A memory of Stafford by nimrod01

I remember this cafe on the corner opposite The Bell pub and in front of what was, or became, the National Westminster Bank. They sold Glojoy lollies - the best flavour being spearmint which 'creaked' when you ...Read more

A memory of Upminster