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I was born in 1950 and lived at 27 Eastcote Lane, with a superb view of the gas holder from my bedroom window. I remember Macdonalds the fishing equipment shop which was almost opposite my house and apparently ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow by Christopher Porter

In 1930 I was born at 25 Northumberland Avenue, Isleworth. I lived there until 1951 and my most vivid memories are of the Second World War years. My dad dug a hole in the middle of the garden and installed an Anderson shelter in ...Read more

A memory of Isleworth by John Rose

Stayed in Elmwood Road (35), that strange bit that was Methil but everybody thought was Methilhill. I was the one wi the big, black, daft alsation with the bad ear. Anyway my memories in no particlar order, the ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1970 by Jock Chalmers

At the house where we lived from 1928 until 1935, (No 24 Barracks Road, Burnley, now called Cavalry Way), it was called a 'back to back' row cottage. It comprised of two bedrooms upstairs, one just about able to fit a ...Read more

A memory of Burnley in 1930 by Rowland Farrer

F-18 From a distance, Tam watched in silence. Like him, the monster had remained in the same place all night, dormant; poised. His eyes hurt from too many fags, the odd tear, and staring ahead into the ...Read more

A memory of Whiteinch in 1962 by Alex Hay

The formative years of my early childhood were spent at No. 39 Bondgate, Pontefract, which was one of a block of four small two-up, two-down houses situated immediately adjacent to the ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract in 1930 by Graham Atkinson

I was born Norma Sanderson in 1947 at the hall. My father was chauffeur for Leroy Lewis. I was christened in St Cuthberts and I remember as a little girl seeing a plaque on the wall of the church with the name Leroy Lewis on it, my dad drove her in a big black car on her trips, I think to London.

A memory of Kirkleatham in 1947 by Norma Baker

I was born at 30,Cherry Tree Ave , in 1940 ,being a war baby we grew up hearing the sirens ,my mother would pull down the Blackouts ( like a roller blind but covered in a thick black material) then many children would come to our ...Read more

A memory of Staines by Janet Mains

My grandfather Charles samspson started this in 1910 taking. His family hop picking in Kent ,wonderful times his daughter Lavinia my mother married John frances Borgia Dunford in 1918 he was in the Royal Navy ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End by robertpeterdunford1

A miner's family from Blaenrhondda - Watkins - were lodgers in the late 1930's with my parents living in Colindale, Hendon, NW London. I was born in 1926 and when I was ten the idea came for me to stay for a holiday in ...Read more

A memory of Blaenrhondda in 1930 by Sidney Holt