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I spent most of my younger years up to about 5 years old living in Nuxley Road with my grandparents and my aunts. The house was next to Hammonds the Bakers at the bottom end near to Stream Way. I am not sure what the shop is ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere by john.tainton

I went to Little Hulton High School 1970-75 and remember walking up Madam`s Wood Road to school every day. We would go to the bakery [Hames`s] on Little Hulton Precinct to buy our lunch as 5th years. I used to run for the school and ...Read more

A memory of Walkden by carol.hindley

I remember leaving lemington middle school to move to the brand new Shool up the hill at the top of Claremont around 1963 and left in May 1965,and moved to Halifax where I had a nasty works accident and lost my left leg,I had many ...Read more

A memory of Lemington by andrew.gunn

Half way down on the left was Paynes cake shop where we would buy Chelsea buns from about 10.30 onwards for 2 pence halfpenny, (that's in old money). They were hot, soft and very sticky with syrup and tasted wonderful. We have ...Read more

A memory of Newtown

I remember calling at a cafe in Bilton Rd every day as a van salesman for Walls sausage & pies.The cafe was used by lots of Walls van drivers before the start of there calls,it was run by a lovely Irish couple who's son was the ...Read more

A memory of Perivale

My father worked at Sonning Mill before transferring to Sindlesham Mill, his name was Fred Hopkins, he was a rollerman, we lived in a row of small cottages with a yard behind the cottages and a very long narrow garden . my mother cooked ...Read more

A memory of Sonning

I remember in the 1950s, walking as a child from Greenhurst Lane where I lived, across the railway bridge, down to St Agatha's Hall, then left down the long path to the bottom of the large Village Green. At the bottom on ...Read more

A memory of Hurst Green by jim.hammond

I remember the Chichester Festival Theatre opening in 1962. I went to see several plays there over the years. One I remember well was The Royal Hunt of the Sun. Later, in the early 70s I worked there for 2 years ...Read more

A memory of Chichester by Sylvia Ashton

My grandfather (Frederick William Steward) was a gamekeeper and lived with his wife ( Florence )and there 6 children in a single story cottage,it was deep in the woods, we always went for a weeks holiday there,my father always had a ...Read more

A memory of Frenze by janetmains

I was born in Grant road in 1950 & left in 1960 ,the old Essex pub was on the other side of the street & half way down the street was Gaylors off licence & at the bottom was Fyffes bananas where we used catch the big ...Read more

A memory of Battersea