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This is a photo of Sharps Green which is now part of the Riverside Country Park. I remember playing there as a child - it was always a rather wild place. My family and a large group of neighbours would go for a picnic when the ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham

Like Adam in the post before this, Talace holds very dear memories for me. Mum and Dad bought a caravan in 1960, after we had stayed in an assortment of bungalows in Tyn-y-Morfa on the Warren during the 1950s ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by Sue Farley

My parents owned the Horseshoe Cafe, 146 Barking Road, and we lived in the apartment above. Next door on the corner was a bakery and next door on the other side was a 'removal' company. I also remember ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1954 by Helga Hurban

Actually, I have no memory of 1971, as this was the year I was born. However, I was born in Perivale Maternity Hospital, which I believe was situated on Stockdove Way (before a housing estate was build there - Haymill ...Read more

A memory of Perivale in 1971 by Ian Batson Wright

I grew up in Awsworth from 1959 and left in 1986 to live nearby in Eastwood. I attended both schools as a child, all my 4 children were baptised in the local church, I played football for all the teams in Awsworth, in fact I and a friend ...Read more

A memory of Awsworth by Graham Gunn

My family lived here from 1972-77, as my father was an officer in the prison. We lived next to the then working dairy at Tor View. The village had escorted prisoners all over the village, and the farms and quarries ...Read more

A memory of Princetown in 1976 by Peter Verrall

My earliest memory of Ryton park was the swimming pool,which was a great favourite place of mine in the summer holidays. I and my pals would meet there for a good old swim for hours! They used to hold an annual gala there in which I ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1978 by Linda Dobby

I lived in Broklehurst Cottage, opposite to Lees Farm and to the left of the school gate. In 1957 we moved to The Kennels in Newnham Paddox, Monks Kirby. Our neighbours were a family called the Tarpies. At ...Read more

A memory of Monks Kirby in 1959 by Paul Quirke

We moved to Maidenhead in 1961, when I was 10. I didn't particularly want to but my parents said I could go and see "Village of the Damned" at the ABC cinema on the day we moved and that swung it for me - I was easily pleased. My ...Read more

A memory of Maidenhead in 1961 by Bob Stringer

I remember being taken to Congleton Park and going on the big slide. I liked it most when it was so slippy, you fell off at the bottom. Now with Health & Safety the slide has disappeared, although there is a play area for ...Read more

A memory of Congleton in 1960 by Carole Clowes