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Just a few of my very fond memories: Village shops – Turner’s, Vicarage Hill; Top Post Office; Mrs Jones, opposite the Swan; Mrs Jones from her front room at the end of Blacky Row; Humphreys Newsagent from their ...Read more

A memory of Rhostyllen by John Povah

Maggie Cook had a sweet shop at the bottom of Milton Road. She would have done well today with the Garnock Academy business but she served us well and we all have our favourite moments. Maggie was small and petite and in order to ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie by John Allan

From Trafford Road one would see the first shop was on the left of Cawdor Street; the workshop of Louis Donlan, tailor. Next on the left was Bolsover’s Grocery shop; popular with some customers because 'sterilized ...Read more

A memory of Patricroft by Joseph Murphy

I used to live in Grove Place which of course is no longer there. I remember Mrs Jones fish and chip shop a couple of doors from me where you could get a bag of crackling (yum). Then round the corner in Western Road was ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Helen Jules

I was born in the house on South Avenue that my mum lived her entire life in until her death in 2006, I vividly remember a few shops on the Broadway from this period, including Safeway (now a small arcade. A short way along ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Neil Emery

My dad was the sub postmaster of Tipton Green Post Office approximately from the years 1949-1961. I attended the local grammar school. Owen Street was then a thriving shopping area, so who remembers Mrs Yates the Newsagent at the railway ...Read more

A memory of Tipton by Roger Collett

The two were certainly there until 1939. They were small and in typical Victorian dress with 'chokers' etc. To me as a child they seemed about 80 but obviously that may be wrong. The shop was full of sweets in glass jars etc and ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Peter Pennington

Feeling a bit nostalgic, I browsed some sites showing my old primary school, my home town and village of Pontnewydd and found this site with a memory of Gazzis ice cream parlour in Pontnewydd. I remember my father treating us to an ice ...Read more

A memory of Cwmbran

The house on the right was when John Lambert lived, he owned and ran the shop on the right (it was a general store; grocer, hardware and building supplies at the rear). My Dad, Jim Williams owned the butchers shop, the ...Read more

A memory of Snettisham

WE MOVED TO GERRARDS CROSS, BUCKS IN 1950 WHEN I WAS JUST OVER 3 YEARS OLD. I WENT TO TREGENNA RUN BY MISS WATKINS AND ONTO GAYHURST AND MY SISTER WENT TO HOLY CROSS CONVENT. WE LIVE AT CHURSTON, BULL LANE, GERRARDS CROSS AND MY MUM ...Read more

A memory of Gerrards Cross by tony.joseph64