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HAPPY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES. In the summer of 1952 (I was 7 years old) my grandmother took me on a 'Farm Holiday' in Bedford to stay with friends. At this time I lived as a child in 'industrial Newcastle upon Tyne'. We ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1952 by David Armstrong

My family was one of the first to live on Langley. I went to Domain School and Langley Secondry Modern. I worked at Thommys fish and chip shop the best chippie ever I worked with nice friendly people and we knew most of the ...Read more

A memory of Middleton in 1954 by Sylvia Montgomery

Does anyone else remember going to see Chapletown Park Illuminations? It was quite a spectacle. I remember at the entrance in a small stream there was an illuminated steamboat with its paddles going ...Read more

A memory of Chapeltown in 1960 by Megan Ward

I was born in Croydon in 1943, moved to Addington, then Birchington (Kent) before returning to New Addington in 1953 where I attended Wolsey Junior School & Fairchildes Secondary School. Shirley Secondary, ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1950 by Jonathan Le Vine

I was born in the Witton end of Handsworth, so I relate more to Aston really. Albert Road School as a little girl, I still have a group picture of Class 2.1932. Canterbury Road Girl's School at 11 and Aston Commercial School in ...Read more

A memory of Handsworth in 1940 by Beryl Johansen

I was my parents' first child, born at a nursing home in Broxbourne Road, Orpington, in 1936. We lived in Woodhurst Avenue and my earliest recollections are of going shopping with my mother. I remember Queensway ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood in 1940

I have picked 1953 because I was ten then. My father, Willie, was a Hughes and my mother, Ekbery, was a Farrell. There were loads of us in the Ferry. I lived in 9 St John St then we moved the 5 Louden ...Read more

A memory of Creetown in 1953 by Howard Hughes

I remember starting Tettenhall School. I remember playing hide and seek and hid in the coal shed at the back of the school then being dragged in front of the whole school at assembly for having a black face and clothes ...Read more

A memory of Tettenhall in 1943 by Alfred Hesketh

I started at St. Peters School South Weald in the Infants class with Miss Clough in 1950. She was a lovely lady. My first few months were very worrying as I was a shy only child and I cried a lot as ...Read more

A memory of South Weald in 1950 by Helen Illsley

Although I was born in Isleworth I went to school in Hounslow, firstly to Hounslow Town School in Pears Road in 1960 and then onto Bulstrode Girls school in 1964. We were the first class in the new school but started our ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Sheila Wright