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"It's only wind or powder on the stomach"my Mam had said as she walked home from the ammunition factory on a cold Autumn evening. The "wind" or "powder" was born on the 2nd December 1942. I, Colin Gronow, had ...Read more

A memory of Graig in 1940 by Colin Gronow

I was born in Burnt Oak in July 1956 in North Road - the same house that my mother was born in.  My grandparents lived in North Road for many years until North Road, South Road and East Road were compulsory purchased by Barnet ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1956 by Sandra Gibney

Teachers. - Mrs Boyle, Mrs Clover, Mrs Parrott. Head teacher - Mrs Bingham - she had the library books, stamp and cards in her office upstairs. Playground surrounded the building and constructed ...Read more

A memory of Bordon by D Toovey

I was stationed at Bordon Fire Station and was a Corporal in the army. I have many photos taken at the station, I was in charge of the cook-house and was in charge of the bar on the station. I attended many fires - the ...Read more

A memory of Bordon in 1946 by Laurence Brocklesby

I came to Bookham on the 23rd of Sept 1959 from Ireland. I started working at the Bookham Grange Hotel which was then owned and run by Leslie Colwill. Iwas 16 years old then and as green as the country I had come from. I ...Read more

A memory of Little Bookham by Jim Coughlan

I was born in 117 Blyth Mansions, Hornsey Rise, in 1942 I think they had just been built. I remember playing in the flats with so many children, I wonder where they are all now. We used to have fights with all the other flats, Hill ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1942 by Eileen Wright

i well remember ,as a 12 year old lad the woods and football pitch on friar park estate wednesbury.i came home one saturday afternoon to find our back garden full of football players from both sides drinking tea. it turned out that ...Read more

A memory of Wednesbury in 1962 by Paul Love

Sat Mar 20th 2021, at 3:22 pm Peter Tuthill commented: Yes, thanks for the photo of Smuggler's Cottage. It was criminal,wanton destruction to demolish it and throw up those totally characterless boxes. How planning permission was ...Read more

A memory of Portreath by Peter Tuthill

I was born in Wythenshawe in 1954. My father was the local Policeman, he had a large ramshackle allotment on the junction of Stockport road and Bloomsbury Lane. It was entered by the side of a building which for years was a Funeral ...Read more

A memory of Timperley in 1960 by Graham Ingham

I was born in Upney Hospital in early 1951, the youngest of six children. We lived with our parents in North Street. When I was two our parents split up and my dad eventually 'won' custody of myself and the brother next up to me, ...Read more

A memory of Barking