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I lived in Alderley Edge as a child between 1947 and 1955. I remember going for walks on the Edge, and being told about a legend that Merlin and King Arthur and his knights were sleeping inside a cave there, waiting to be ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1954 by Elizabeth White

We moved to Bromley Cross about 1947 just before my sister Virginia was born, it was a lovely new prefab, but I don't remember much about the inside of it apart from the wood-burning stove, that sticks in my mind for some ...Read more

A memory of Bromley Cross in 1947 by Julie Christo

I was born in Sandleaze, Worton in 1957. I was brought up at 1 Mill Road near the Marston boundary. I remember many things about the village especially the Rose and Crown Pub and the Mill. I remember with pride the war ...Read more

A memory of Worton by Teresa Lewis

The boating pool at Shoebury Common was a must visit every weekend I was there.  In later years they had canoes and we used to sit up on the top of the canoe at the back and not in the cockpit.  Never fell in though.  Would not ...Read more

A memory of Shoeburyness by Alan Perry

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

I was 6 months old when we (my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters) moved into one of two farm cottages in Laney Green. I lived there until 1964, when the cottages were torn down (unnecessarily so) to enable the ...Read more

A memory of Laney Green by Angela Cope

When I was about 4 years old in 1948 my Auntie Jess and Uncle Albert (Haynes) ran the Grove Hotel at Stapenhill. It was the original one, not the one which is there now. It was a really lovely old building ...Read more

A memory of Stapenhill in 1948 by Carol Eyden

I used to live in The Meadway, and went to St Johns infants School-a few memories of playing on 'the boxes' at play/lunchtime. These were actually old beer crates, and long before health and safety spoiled ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Richard Morgan

I moved to Harold hill in 58 from shoreditch to Montgomery crescent then to 49 gooshays drive and my sisters Pat,Brenda and Sandra my brother Paul came in 63.I moved to Australia in 1978 with my wife Jacqueline and ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by assolidas

Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by keith.hindson