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Born in Woodford Wells in 1946 and lived on the High Road a few doors away from The Travellers Friend and the Simmonds Art Shop where my good friend Roger Simmonds lived. We had a wonderful childhood, we shopped for ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green

I spent my childhood in Ashtead in the 1950s and 60s and I went to Ashtead Primary School in Barnett Wood Lane. One of the teachers was a lovely lady called Miss Portlock and she used to bring her dog to school with her. ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead by Carole Barwood

We moved to Eastry when I was 2...now 60 years ago ....We lived in the house on the Premiere Garage High Street which was over the road from the newsagents called Bickers. As kids we played in the wood of Boystown behind the garage. ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Julie

I lived in Wood End Lane (no. 9), from 1941 from the age of six months, until 1948 when I moved to the new council houses at Newnham Close, locally known as Tintown, because it had steel framed walls on the upper storey. No. 9 was a ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by williamfairney

I attended St theresa’s Convent from when I was 9 in 1954 until I left the summer I was 16 in 1961. I knew many girls who’s names are now long forgotten but those I do remember like Allanah Bagnall PhillipaWooldridge Philippa Bouwens I did ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury by Jeannine Helene Nye

An Idyllic Childhood - a Memory of Stretton under Fosse. I enjoyed reading your piece Jane, I remember you so well. I lived at Newbold Revel, Stretton-Under-Fosse from 1953 - 1977, together with my siblings - ...Read more

A memory of Stretton under Fosse by Teresa O'sullivan

I was born in 1956 when my parents (Dennnis & Ena Barr) lived at 10, Lime Tree Road, Lampton. Like someone else here, my paternal grandparents were in Hogarth Gardens and I started school at Heston Infants. My main memory of the school ...Read more

A memory of Heston by David Wayne

I was at the school 77 I think possibly 78. I remember trying to run away a couple of times & also being mortified at having to stand naked in a queue while we were ‘bathed’ 2 at a time in a small room, & ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by Deborah Wade

i attended this dreadful school as a boarder when i had just turned 9. The headmistress was Miss McVicar, a remote and outwardly very Christian woman, though this never translated to ...Read more

A memory of Wickham by Mary Ann Godwin

I was 9 when we returned from Australia in the summer of 1967, we lived at 37 Farley Road after three different houses in Littleheath Road all belonging to friends of my parents, who conveniently were away on holiday by ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Cooper