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My grandparents lived on Melton Road opposite the Ivanhoe,they bought the house from new and paid about £500 for it in the 30s I think,I spent a lot of my summer hols with them and loved it,when grandad was at work me and my gran went to ...Read more

A memory of Sprotbrough by kaktusheadpb

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

I was born in Park Royal hospital in Feb 1952 then taken home to 70 Craven Park Road spitting distance from Harlesden police station. Just across the road from our family doctor, (Dr Curtis) not much bedside manor, ...Read more

A memory of Willesden by pjspence18

I grew up in Houghton Regis in the 1960s, we were a big family, and seemed to go to all the schools, including Houghton Regis Upper, Northfields, Queensbury, Manshead. My dad moved there for work from London before I was born so it ...Read more

A memory of Houghton Regis by lucyhowson

My memories are of living at 37 pickmere lane from 1969 age 7. My mum Beryl Owen still lives there now and I still live in Wincham. I will always remember the "bob bob bob" of the motor boats which I could here from my bedroom ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere by Antony Owen

It was early summer in 1967 when suffering from a 'mental breakdown' I was admitted into Macc in the middle of the night, horror upon horror me and my mates had often talked about ...Read more

A memory of Macclesfield

My name was Barbara Beattie, I was born in 16 Empire rd linacre road in 1952 no longer there now, I would love to hear other peoples memories of growing up there , ie we played in the street in the summer till 9 oclock at ...Read more

A memory of Litherland by barbmeads

The photo of Station Hill reminds me of many happy days spent at my aunts house further down the hill ,she lodged in a lovely house with a balcony across the front owned by a couple Em and Bert who owned ...Read more

A memory of South Benfleet by Chris Lowe

1946 was the year that our family life in Nancledra began. What a relief it must have been to our parents, Peggy and Arthur Caddick to move into Windswept Cottage. The war years in London were over and they both felt a huge sense ...Read more

A memory of Nancledra by di

I went to Old Basing school slightly later, in 1962,and I remember school dinners as being dreadful, the dinner ladies were so strict that you did not dare not to eat your meal, they even reported to my mother ...Read more

A memory of Old Basing by qualityincornwall