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Special treat of afternoon tea at Pritchards, next door to Evans and Davies. Served by waitresses in smart black dresses with white aprons and little frilly hats. Lovely tiered plates of sandwiches and ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green by Anne Poole

Born in 137,Station rd in 1948. One of four children. Went to hawthorn junior and then cathays high .cannot remember name of infants school, but I do remember my nana picking me up one day one as we walked home a dog ran out from ...Read more

A memory of Llandaff North

I started school at 5yrs old ii then lived in Fernlea Avenue the house was called Anglo West and was number 44 (how i remember this so well i do not know) my mum took me to school through the park the school was not far from the end of ...Read more

A memory of Herne Bay

Hi there. I'll always have fond memories of Valentines Park, those beautiful swans and Canadian cygnets at the Cranbrook Road end, Gants Hill Odeon, library, the bird cage in Valentines Park, the boat lakes, the ...Read more

A memory of Ilford by bevjoemorris

My name was Mary Butterworth and I was born at 25 Egerton Street in Winton. I left Winton Senior School in 1946 and began work in a baby linin shop on Patricroft Bridge. The shop was called Turners, next door to Tatham's the ...Read more

A memory of Patricroft by Mary Smith

My Grand dad was station master through my young child hood in the 50s and we lived at 2 Market Street Right opposite the Parish church,until mum and dad got a prefab at the Hundred when I was 3. The roads are so empty to what I see ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh by lornaheath5

My Grand dad Mr Albert Beck was station master through my young child hood in the 50s and we lived at 2 Market Street Right opposite the Parish church,until mum and dad got a prefab at the Hundred when I was 3. The roads are so empty ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh by lornaheath5

Mum was evacuated to Ledbury in 1940 when she was aged 15. She spent two very happy years living with the lovely Preece family. Mum attended Ledbury Grammar School, the 'Country House' in the Frith ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by Liz Jarrett

My Grandfather had the farm along Park rd Called the Cameroons I was only small but have good memories of it , my brother being 7yrs older remembers it far better. I would like a book if it had the old farm in it before all the Estate was built. My grandfather was Albert Cook.

A memory of Keynsham by gillandrobin

Sometime in the in the late 1970s, I decided to go on a walking holiday, to follow the line of the old Somerset & Dorset Railway track. I caught a bus from London Victoria to Bath, and started my walk from there. I had to use my compass ...Read more

A memory of Radstock by Ken Cook