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It was around the first or second week of November 1940 and I was still to be born. Mum and Dad [and me] lived at 252 Percy Road. Dad worked at the BSA and Mum was pregnant with me. Mum had just made a pot of tea when the Air Raid ...Read more

A memory of Sparkhill by john.taylor2711

I have visited Conwy each year for the last several years.On my last visit I parked my car in a small car park at Penmaenmawr and walked to Conwy,I took some photographs of Conwy castle in the distance, from the ...Read more

A memory of Conwy by Judith Tranter

I moved to Llandudno Road Rumney from Comet Street Adamstown in 1953.I can recollect cycle or light motor cycle racing on a track wheer the flats are now.As a young lad with my school friends we used to walk up ...Read more

A memory of St Mellons by Dave Jones

I was born at number 8 and subsequently lived until I was 10 at number 8 High Street. I remember the baker's (Macleod's I think) where my birthday cake was always displayed for a few days before the actual day (so were the birthday ...Read more

A memory of Anstruther Easter by sheenaliddell

My name is Arthur and i was born in North Middlesex Hospital in july 1949 and i lived at 80 Sirdar Road.My mum and dad Arhur and Doris Brown my two sisters Sylvia and Jeanette and myself lived with my grandparents David Edward ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham

My name is Robert Best. I was born June 24th. 1939 in Plymouth and evacuated to Princetown in 1941. My Mother, her parents and I moved to Plympton when I was 3 years old. I have clear memories of Princetown, of riding the train up ...Read more

A memory of Plympton by rjbmk

Anyone looking here - were you at school during the period above? would you like to share memories with me? Popped along to Chelsea yesterday and went to visit the old school, only to find that all that's left is the fascia!!! My ...Read more

A memory of Chelsea by jcron8

Hi All. I was born in 1941 at 1 Oulton Road (now long gone) but lived in Harringay Road at No 27 with the grandparents until we got a flat at 107 Harringay Road, 1945 ish was sent to school at what is now Chestnuts primary ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham by Norman Smith

I lived in these flats from 1955 until 1967, went to Alderbroook school from 1956 till 1961,Mr fuller was my teacher in my final year,went back to his house once to see the boat he had built, his mum was there looked just like him without the mouse tach or motorbike left Balham in 1967 good memories

A memory of Balham

This development included a Coop Department store and a bookshop that I frequented in my teenage years. The Coop skirted around the corner into Stafford Street and two of the original terraced houses on that street were occupied by the ...Read more

A memory of Stafford