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I remember leapfrogging over the safety bollards outside the pub, opposite Cobbs the shop, I must have been about 8 or 9 (about 1955), the last one I became hooked up by my skirt. Can't remember how I got down, but I didn't do it again in a skirt.

A memory of Sydenham

I grew up in ashgrove from (I was very young) to 1959 when we moved to Ivygrove. I went about with andrew puller, ann and betty black, Jimmy walker and rodney walker, june pratt, sandy and the rest of ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill by tedinwindygates

Hi, I am really interested in the history of Erith and find it fascinating the various memories people have of the area, particularly Manor Road. Although I was born in Sidcup, my parents moved to Erith in about 1979 when I was about 12 yrs ...Read more

A memory of Erith by stephen.odowd3

My Mum and Dad had a small grocery shop in Carlisle st Splott in the 1950s I ththink it was on the corner of Cameron st but I'm not sure there was a bakery on the opposite corner .I remember my dad used to boil his own ham and pork to ...Read more

A memory of Splott by j.davies14321

Me and my 3 sisters went here , late 70s early 80 can’t remember exactly, what I do remember was how we had to share baths and be checked for head lice , they wrote with black marker on our underwear , a colour and number , even while we ...Read more

A memory of Skegness by sgriffihs

I was born 291 Friern Rd prefab December 1952 went to Goodrich infants & Heber rd school. Remember the parade of shops junction of Barry rd & Lordship Lane, Bert the barber, Val’s the greengrocer & next door grocer shop, ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich by irenecarnold

I remember St Mary's bay my husband and I had our honeymoon there 1956, My husband Cedric Baldwin His Gran had a cottage there and the families used to go for regular trips, the Shop on the corner used to belong to his friend he ...Read more

A memory of St Mary's Bay by Betty Baldwin

I remember living in Bells Close from early 70 to mid 80s, in fact I delivered papers to Bells Close and Sugley from the paper shop that used to be along from the new Lemington Centre, on the block that ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1977 by Michael March

I was born in1950 we lived above the family chip shop which also had a sit in area this is now where the betting shop is next was mcgills sweet shop then McCormack the newsagents which was a wooden hut it burnt down I thing it was ...Read more

A memory of Caldercruix in 1955 by Matt Sloan

I lived at 29 primrose crescent Harold Hill attended Hilldean infants school going on to Harrowfields school for girls. I remember the shops at Hilldean ave, and sextons corner shop on straight road. Nurse sexton delivered my sister ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Carole Banham (Barnard