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Harry Christian was the headmaster when I started at Weaverham Secondary Modern school in Lime Avenue in 1956. He was the first headmaster of the new school which by then had I think been open one or two years.   ...Read more

A memory of Weaverham in 1956 by Keith Wilson

We lived at Trusthorpe Hall as children.  My mum and dad were Walt and Millie Slater and we were Pat, Janice, and Carole.  Jan and I went to school at Sutton on Sea.  My dad started the caravan site and the club. We had ...Read more

A memory of Trusthorpe in 1951 by Carole Mitchell

That's where we lived - above the shops in Queens Mansions! I am sitting here bawling my eyes out from nostalgia!! Downstairs there was an optician and just a bit down the hill there was a hairdresser's shop where gorgeous ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1956 by Jean Philip

This was the NAAFI shop that served the military quarters at Watchfield, which housed the then many miltary and civilian staff of the Royal Military College of Science, and some of the students at the college, many ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield by Richard Hodder

I was born in 1946 and lived in Lamport Street, just off Warwick Street in Toxteth. We lived there until I was about 6 years of age. Because of town planning we had to move to Hawkstone Street but what I remember of Lamport ...Read more

A memory of Toxteth in 1950 by Richard Green

Bournemouth is remembered by many as a wonderful holiday venue. A place of golden sands, the Pleasure Gardens, shops, cinemas and theatres. I was born here in 1936, when it was in the county of Hampshire. Pre war memories ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1940 by Barrie R Collins

My family moved here next to the garage in 1965, I would have been only a year old. We lived at Chestnut Cottage until about 1977 or 78. I remember the long hot summer of 1976 and work being done on the Malt House.  My dad ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1965

For two-and-a-half dreadful years, from July 1942 to October 1944, my parents and I survived in three rooms at the top of number 40, Victoria Road, rented from a Mrs Pither. Only the front two rooms, overlooking the street, were habitable ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1942 by Alan Hickman

I remember standing here in the cold with my dad & mum on remembrance days when I was very young. Opposite the Gaumont/Victoria Cinema there used to be a row of shops, one of these used to be a ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1957

I grew up in Lower Church Street, next to the Pitlake ph. As kids we used to play all summer long in the park. By then the boating lake had been drained and it was just a big circular ditch with the island in the middle. The river was ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1965 by Stuart Bowie