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I was born in north London, at the age of 5, I moved with my two twin younger brothers & parents to Harold Hill council estate on the first part built; 24 Charlbury Crescent. We had farms all around us as the rest of Harold Hill ...Read more

A memory of Gidea Park in 1956 by Brian Johns

Hi everyone. I was born in 56 and lived in Normanton and Altofts until moving to Pontefract when I was 7 or 8. My grandad had a cafe down Castleford Road called Halfords. Funny how this works ...Read more

A memory of Normanton in 1959 by Shawn Halford

After a bus ride to Hoylake with my teenage friends (Mark Faulkner, Peter Wilson, Jayne Hanna, Peter and Robert Lacey and Jacqueline Pearce), we donned our suits and jumped into the freeeeezing white capped waters of the ...Read more

A memory of Hoylake in 1977 by Anneliese Baeske Worley

Teignmouth was a very different place then. You could use 2p's to go on the rides which used to be dotted a long the seafront, also there wre lots of boat trips you could go on. Even the train fare was cheaper, ...Read more

A memory of Teignmouth in 1975 by Louise Todd

I was born in Barking, Suffolk Road, in 1938. Elder son of David & Edith Wardell (nee Fenn), and lived there until I married in 1964. My mother's family had lived in Barking for several generations, with Grandad Fenn living in ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Howard Wardell

Our Aunt had a really Art Deco property in Jaywick- curvey windows, flat roof the size of a football pitch(it seemed); huge room with amazing folding dividing doors. And the whole place smelt of Jaywick sand. Not polluted sand, but ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea

i moved with my mother two sisters and brother to esh winning in 1956 I think. We had a terraced house in Evenwood Road where my step grandmother Ethel Galley also lived. My mother managed to get a three bedroom council ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning in 1956 by Jean Berry

My Gran and Grandpa  had a cottage in Holcombe Village "shrimp Cottage" at the top of the hill. This cottage was later left to me, but I sold it in the 60s during the slump!!! I have some wonderful ...Read more

A memory of Holcombe in 1958 by Jill Butcher

Pete Waters was head teacher of Donington Cowley Endowed School and I was a pretty new head teacher in Boston. We agreed to take a party of children from both our schools to PGL Llyn Filly, ...Read more

A memory of Donington in 1982 by Eddie Mc Geown

me and my brother,mum and nan always went to Jaywick for our holidays, and stayed in a bungalow near gorse green, my brother and I used to go to the top of our road and ride the double bikes with the canopies for ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1971 by Anna Steel