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I spent the first eleven years of my life in Tottenham. We lived above the PDSA dispensary in Seven Sisters Road. My father worked for the PDSA as a vet, and I remember very clearly the queues of people waiting to have their ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1950 by Jacqueline Dagnall

Tottenham?? Oh boy, I was born in Risley Avenue, lived there till 8 years old then moved to De Quincy Road, Tottenham, this house was genuinely haunted and we had a lot of bad health and experiences when we ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1950 by Fred Wright

My father came back from war in 1946 I was born in 1948 in Salisbury my father rented a flint cottage in the middle of the woods at Beach’s barn (they were demolished many years ago ) my father was born in Everleigh the family were from ...Read more

A memory of Beach's Barn by Ronald Ayres

I was born into a family called Burns, Mother's name Dorothy, Father's name Leslie. They was a hard working family with two daughters Margaret and Patricia then there was three boys, Robert, Stephen and . for me it was a place that we ...Read more

A memory of Icklesham by Stephen Burns

My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more

A memory of Tombuie Cottage by Drew Ramsay

I was born in Cricklewood NW2 in 1942 in 1949 we moved to 121 Fairmead crescent Edgware Middlesex this was a new council estate being built for familys moving out of the London area , At the back of our house was a ...Read more

A memory of Edgware by Ian Purdy

Lovely to read some of the reminiscences of old Mitcham, it was such a lovely place to grow up in during the late sixties and early seventies, before changes started happening. I left in 1990, aged 25, before the most ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham

I was born in The Burn, Burrow Lane, Newton Poppleford in 1945. My parents were William Francis George Drake (George) and Dora May Drake nee Shobrook. My brother David Andrew Drake was born in 1942. We ...Read more

A memory of Newton Poppleford by Rosemary Forslin

I was born in 1949 to Nellie and Ashford DISNEY. We lived at 15 Albert Road, and my father worked in the Post Office at BATH'S on the Weston Road. Mr. William Bath was my father's uncle. Before Mummy and Daddy got married, ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1949 by Janet Moran

When I was born in Chelmsford Hospital, my family were living in a house in Corringham Road, Stanford-le-Hope but my first memories are of 66 Billet Lane. Right opposite what was then ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by Gail Taplin