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I seem to remember that this section of Upton Park had its entrance at Sussex Place (at the East end of the High Street, just past Upton Road) Many an hour was spent walking/running through this section on route to Lacelles playing fields ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Anthony Rees

Although I put 1963 as the year my memory related to, my memories relate to between 1958 and 1968. Gwespyr was to me the perfect, safe, place to grow up in. We as children would in the summer holidays play cricket until gone 10pm, go ...Read more

A memory of Gwespyr in 1963 by Richard Thomas

Does anyone remember paper jack he was often seen in wangle park

A memory of Croydon by Christine Gardener Nee Finch

My grandfather, John Crane, lived in Scorton & worked at Wyresdale Park for approximately 10 years from 1900. My father Christopher A. & his 2 sisters, Mary Ann & Ellen, went to Scorton school. My question is ...Read more

A memory of Scorton in 1900 by Christopher Crane

My father would take me to watch the Brush football team play at home matches, one of my relatives played for them; his name was Stan Hodges. The ground was behind the Queens Park, I remember a narrow foot to the entrance where it ...Read more

A memory of Loughborough in 1952 by Michael Eric Wright

My grandparents and my mother come from Llanbradach Plasturtwyn Terr; I spent every school holiday and Christmas there. I remember my nan sending me to Snook's shop for a couple slices of ham and putting it on the book to pay ...Read more

A memory of Bedwas

I am not old enough to go back to 1925 but going back to an eleven year old I can remember Nonsuch Park being cropped during the war with cereals. We were able to walk through the park to the mansion & gardens & the ...Read more

A memory of Cheam in 1944 by Brian Mackie

I was born in 1960 in Delham Ave and grew up at 1 the Crescent with my two brothers and sister. My father, Ronald Wykes, took the steam train to Waterloo each day as he was a banker in the city. After he retired he took up a ...Read more

A memory of Egham in 1960 by Andrew Wykes

Ii lived in Park Road opposite the swimming pool; my sisters, brothers, and I went to St Peter in Chains School RC. I had a friend called Josephine Nash, she had 3 brothers; John, Paul, and Peter. Also I knew Elaine Hipwell who ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1941

My family moved to Harold Hill in 1952 to 43 Sheffield Drive when l was only 2 years old, it was a new street at the time and all new families moved in about the same time. My school was at the top of the road, Priory Infants, ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1952 by Alan Day