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I was born in Feltham in Vernon Road in 1935. My first memory is of going to Feltham Hill School. Apparently on my 2nd day I went home at break time to say to my mother that was it I've been to school. My best friend in Vernon Road ...Read more

A memory of Feltham by Sylvia Barnett

Is there anybody like me who can remember the Johnson & Calton (?) bakery that was situated at the Wimbledon end of Worple road, around the 1940's / 1950's. It was next to or very near a restaurant that was owned (I think) by the ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by Neil Mac Gregor

My grandfather was the Forman of pyes farm I am not Shaw of the spelling but we spent our school holidays in Somercotes. I remember Maurd Laming the post laidy Cooky the police man Barns garage Ted Steavins who cut hair in the ...Read more

A memory of North Somercotes by Barry Mason

I did leave an earlier paragraph on this site years ago, but I can't see it now. Indeed, growing up in Welling in the late forties to early sixties was a privilege accorded so very few. I subsequently spent forty-two years in ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Noel Bailey

As a member of the 6th Brockley Scout Group, I visited Westgate 3 or 4 times during the early 1950s for the annual 2-week camp in August, our tents being pitched in the grounds of the then Catholic Church on the London Road. I ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by Ken Cook

I was born in Hammond Road in 1948. We lived next door to my grandparents who kept chickens in the garden, next to the air raid shelter we used as a play house. My grandad used to have a large allotment at the rear of the old ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Cynthia Downes

Armistice. There are more details on my History of Netherthong on the web. The news of the armistice reached Netherthong about 11am on the Monday morning but it was not fully confirmed until the flag ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong by Michael Meitiner

After seventy plus years it's very hard to remember exactly what year I was sent to stay with friends of my mothers in Aylestone. It was likely in 1940 as the general panic about getting the children away from the large ...Read more

A memory of Aylestone by Denman Lalonde

Around about the time this pic was taken, I was 5 years old and my nan used to live in a house to the left of the picture. Her husband was head herdsman at Lord Ivor's dairy farm a little futher up the road. We (my brother, sister ...Read more

A memory of Eriswell by Jayne Lever

As I read and reread the memories that are posted on this site, Mitcham and my childhood there become more and more vivid. I can almost smell the grass on the cricket green, just after it was cut. When I was young, Mitcham was ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by James Bonser