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I lived in Locarno Road from 1954-1974. I remember clearly going to Saturday morning pictures at the Granada (later known as Tescos) and getting an ice cream from Creamery Fare afterwards. We used to go to Greenford community ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Angela Bush

I remember the rickety bridge over the River Mole here, when I was very small my mother used to take me over it to eat sandwiches by the 'splash' and go for a paddle. The bridge was really scary ...Read more

A memory of Fetcham by Ruth Gorst

These were the years when the activity with friends, in Nanty, was at its most intense for me. I was born in Grove Street, 1947, and left to explore the big wide world in 1967. Compared to today, living in Nanty was ...Read more

A memory of Nantyffyllon by Alan Lucas

If you look at the photograph of The Wells, on the crossroad that leads up the hill to Midland Road, the first shop on the corner used to be Barclays Bank but before then it was a tobacco shop and sweet shop combined. In the ...Read more

A memory of Royston by Roland Mitchell

In about 1964 I belonged to Marley Motorcycle Club which l think was based at Marley school in Dagenham. The club used an old barn at Stubbers in Ockendon to "hang out". We had a basic kitchen, a few old sofas and parked the ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by alandvi.187

Does anyone else remember St Lawrence School in the 1950s? I attended from 1949 till 1955, Mr Watkins was headmaster. An elderly man who used to hang round the school children after school and give them half an apple each ...Read more

A memory of Effingham by marylucas200

I was born at Luton Chatham as was my Dad and Grandparents. I used to sat around the cafe with my mates in the paddock watching the Pentagon being built. After going to Fort Pitt my first job in 1976 was working as an office ...Read more

A memory of Chatham

It’s a rather sad fact that you only come to appreciate a town several years after you have left it. At the age of 19 I was sent to live and work in Stafford between 1964 and 1979, before ...Read more

A memory of Stafford by nimrod01

My parents and I lived in one of the flats in Pershore Hall for about two or three years, when I was a toddler in the early 1960s. Probably between 1963 and 1965 (I was born in 1962). Naturally my memories are ...Read more

A memory of Pershore Hall by michaelaaylott

I went to the School that is hiding behind the phone kiosk and the trees on the right of this photo and then later to the school in Spinney Avenue There was a sweet shop opposite the school just where that car is parked and ...Read more

A memory of Widnes by Beryl Worrall