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I used to ride my cycle from Blacksmiths Lane in South Hornchurch to fish in Berwick Ponds in late 50's and early 60's. I have good memories of sitting on the bank on many a Sunday listening to "Round the Horn", "Billy Cotton's ...Read more

A memory of Rainham by alandvi.187

I am not a native of Aveley. I was born in Barking and spent most of my childhood in Dagenham. My father's sister and her husband moved to South Ockendon (Gatehope Drive) when I was very young. Every Sunday we would travel to see ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by alansindall

My Grandfather, Christopher Grigg, worked here.He was a water baliff,and laterly a gardener.He took me to work several times, and I once fell in the fish pond

A memory of Greywell by Miss A.Grigg

1950's: As a young lad I lived just a few minutes from this park (which is in Cleethorpes not Grimsby) and so spent a lot of time there. This pond was home to many hundreds of small fish, which I assume to be sticklebacks and ...Read more

A memory of Grimsby by John Ellingford

Corsham to me was as much about the friends I grew up with as well as the prefabricated estate that  was my home. None of us were very rich or we would not have been placed there but then we were living in an era that was so different than ...Read more

A memory of Corsham in 1955 by Tom Wright

I was born in burgh Heath .we lived in Somerfield close as a kid we all played on the green at the bottom of the road went fishing over the pond worked on the farm in the summer pick plums behind the shops when they was rip lol all this was a long time ago Happy days

A memory of Burgh Heath

I lived in Chandler's Ford but went to school in Eastleigh. First to Cranbury Road and later North End Secondary. Remember the Library well, a small children's section, couldn't wait until I was old enough to use the adult ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh by joannablacklock

I moved to wigmore in 1950 from liss in Hampshire . I was 4 years old and started school at the camp school off the maidstone road . I remember outside the main canteen was a large fish pond and all our classrooms were large ...Read more

A memory of Wigmore by rosesalfie2c

My dad was born at Wimbledon in 1922. He told me that his parents had a family business called Potts corners that included a fish n chips shop, a garage and a gentlemans club. His dad George Potter, was also a sign painter and a French polisher. ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by anniepotteruk

Thornton Heath: It always makes me smile when I see a bus with the destination 'Thornton Heath Pond' I remember the Pond very well. I'm often tempted to ask bus drivers if they know that there really was quite a large ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath by Raffaele Sargeant