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I started at Salfords school when I was about five around 1935. My first teacher was Miss Licence. Later I had Miss Kick and Miss Ferguson. There were no male teachers. The headmistress was Miss Atherton who had an ...Read more

A memory of Salfords in 1940 by Barbara Giles

I started my life in 1936 at Charlmont Road. These houses had no bathroom (we used a tin bath in front of the fire) and outside toilets. I went to Selincourt Road Schools, infants then juniors. I remember during the war ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Brian Lawrence

Stepped off the train at Sudbury Station accompanied by my then boyfriend, who came from Monks Eleigh. We went to get the bus from the Market Hill. It was a Rules Coach. This photo is almost ...Read more

A memory of Sudbury in 1966 by Carole Buttle

Went here with my sister in 1978/9 was 8 yrs old I hated the place was made to stand out side of the dorm all night naked due to wetting the bed also got hit with a cane for talking cold baths having to scrub ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School

My father was a train driver and I was born in Railway Cottages Goodhall Street Willesden Junction 1945 which came under Acton and lived there until I got married in 1966. I went to Acton Wells school from infants until I was 11 ...Read more

A memory of Acton

I went to Old Bramhope in 1934 at the age of one, and was there until 1948, when my father retired as Governor. I was at the school on site until 1943, and was in the Cubs and Scouts. I'm still in touch with a number of old boys ...Read more

A memory of Bramhope in 1940 by Tony Hodgetts

In 1955, just after my brother was born, we moved from West Ham to Forest Gate (Norwich Road). I was 8 years old and starting a new school was traumatic to say the least. My elder sister was at Plaistow Grammar School, so it did not ...Read more

A memory of Forest Gate by r.harcourt187

I didn't live in the town itself; we moved to Gwencole Crescent from Burgh Le Marsh, Lincs, in 1963 after my father followed up a work opportunity, advertised in the local press by English Electric at Whetstone. He was ...Read more

A memory of Braunstone Town by Colin

I spent the academic year 1987/88 in Kent training to become a Careers Adviser on a post-graduate course run by Kent College for the Careers Service. During my course I had to visit businesses, ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1987 by John Howard Norfolk

I fondly remember the many nature walks we took behind the school. Im speaking of the old school on school rd. Muddy trails, lots of foxgloves. But we were always warned about an older man that did not like the ...Read more

A memory of Wheaton Aston in 1970 by Victoria Wedge