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El Cid (Restaurant)

Does anyone remember the El Cid? It was opposite Sainsburys, which was next to John Sanders department store. It was very similar to a Wimpy bar. We used to go there on Sunday evenings, after St Thomas youth club finished in ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Nick Beard

Porthcawl

My first job was as a nanny to the Chess children, Oscar, Anna and Paul. Their dad had car sales rooms, one was in Port Talbot. When I got married my husband and I worked in Coney Beach, a big self service cafe on the front with a bar ...Read more

A memory of Porthcawl by Eira Waite

Raf Dalcross

This Airport was, in 1951/52 when I was there, RAF Dalcross. It was here that I did my advanced flying training on Airspeed Oxfords and won my "wings". Two members of our course were killed while flying from here. Many happy ...Read more

A memory of Inverness Airport by Terry Clary

The Crown & Greyhound

Always known by my pals and myself, just as "the Greyhound" (late 1950s). In those days, the Public Bar was on the left hand side of the building, which had benches and scrubbed wooden tables with a sprinkling of sawdust on the ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich by Ken Cook

Memories Of Bitton In Gloucestershire

The Grange at Bitton was the home of the Seymour family, one member of which was Jane, the third wife of King Henry VIII. The village is dominated by its open countryside setting. This relationship arises ...Read more

A memory of Bitton by Paul Townsend

Over Here

Over Here... The first American troops to arrive in our part of the world arrived in 1942. The came to what became know as Sudbury Camp (nearly in Marchington). A hospital was built at the present site of HMP Prison. A great ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall by John Mellor

Time Changes Everything

As I read and reread the memories that are posted on this site, Mitcham and my childhood there become more and more vivid. I can almost smell the grass on the cricket green, just after it was cut. When I was young, Mitcham ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by James Bonser

The Chequers Pub

I remember when my nan had the Chequers. My Dad grew up there. We used to go there every Sunday and Nanna Bet would let us have crisps and a coke, in the old style glass bottles. Phil would give us a load of 10ps to go on the ...Read more

A memory of Baldock by Angie Fisher

Earlsdon

We moved into Earlsdon from Wales in 1965 and stayed with my aunty who lived in Belvedere Road. Such a big house with three floors and close to the Spencer Park tennis courts as I recall. The bus used to stop right outside the front door ...Read more

A memory of Coventry by Shirley Jones

Waddon Etc

I was born in 1948 and lived in Waddon Court Road until 1963. I remember the joy of Waddon Ponds just three doors away, and rRunning the gauntlet with the park keepers such as 'Pegleg', a cruel nickname following the 'legend' of a leg ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Robert Shaw

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