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This vessel was built by Messrs Craggs of Middlesbrough - launched 13th July 1895. 185 ft long - Gross tonnage 386 tons with full electric lighting. She ran a regular service across the Channel calling at Guernsey, Jersey and St ...Read more

A memory of Salcombe in 1890 by Colin Vosper

This card shows the Banstead War Memorial before it was moved to its current positition in the 1990s. Sutton Lane was very narrow in earlier times and conductors used to have to get off the bus to ...Read more

A memory of Banstead in 1947 by Lewis Wood

david lewis was my great grandad,,born in brightwell suffolk, he married charlotte ellen allan. davids father was also called david,.....my aunt winnie said he came from wales but all the records said brightwell ,,,so we have ...Read more

A memory of Brightwell by Angela Silk

I lived in Battersea from about 1939 to 1949 when we moved to Hornsey in North London. We lived with my grandparents who owned the Southern Dining Rooms, a transport café opposite the marshalling yards, ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1947 by Patricia Hines

Hi I am Beryl Clark née Jamieson if any of my old friends in Tooting remember me I use to live in sellingcourt and went to Estreham school . Maureen sutton Brenda Mann Fred Albury Robert Barefield lived in Woodbury street went to sea ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1950 by Beryl Clark

Sometime during the autumn of 1945 our neighbour, who lived in The Oval, Banstead, comforted a Canadian woman she saw crying in High Street. That woman had flown over to visit her airman husband who was in Cuddington ...Read more

A memory of Nork in 1946 by Marie Nicholson

Hello, does anyone remember a school Estreham High it was along mitcham lane not far from Southcroft Road it was called Mitcham Lane school also I am looking for Sylvia Redknapp I would be please to hear from you ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by Beryl Clark

My mum still lives in Denmead she is 100 years old,I recently stayed with her for few weeks due to my brother going into hospital .. The memories of my childhood came flooding back . Playing around the lanes and all of the ...Read more

A memory of Denmead by goodgirldarling

Do you remember the Gaumont Junior Club? For a few pennies on a Saturday morning, hundreds of local kids watched a cartoon, a newsreel, an information picture and a main feature...PLUS, there was community singing ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by towserchilt

Does any one remember or, like me, go to this school that had the same purple-mauve school uniform colour as the twinned girls' school just along the road? The alumni blog (with photos of teachers like ...Read more

A memory of Sutton by dagmar.melman