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I lived in Mollington from 1948 until 1962. We lived in one of two cottages, set back off the main street, and at the bottom of our gardens was the road, then the row. I remember the Avahes and Harry Robinson. At the ...Read more

A memory of Mollington by Diane Woods

I remember moving to High Wycombe with my Mam and Dad from Wales, I would have been about seven years old. We were coming to stay with my father's uncle and his daughter. Always remember seeing a bottle of ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1953 by Roy Bolderson

My mother was born in Streethouse and my father moved there as a young boy. Although we lived in Normanton I spent many happy hours in Streethouse as many of my family lived there (some still do). I remember the long ...Read more

A memory of Streethouse in 1950 by Joan Hill

Myself and friends used the pond and Barn Hill a lot in the early fifties. I remember the row of poplar trees running up to the pond from Fryent Way. We mostly seemed to use the Kingsbury side of the Hill for our various ...Read more

A memory of Wembley Park in 1951

I came to croft as I will always remember it, with my Mother and two Sisters, looking for my Dad, who was in a Searchlight detachment in Hurworth. We stayed at first with the Mansfield family, before we got Rose Cottage in Hurworth. I am ...Read more

A memory of Croft-on-Tees by tom.f.young

The shown photo is how I remembered it circa 1955 when I was 10 years old. Very popular venue for Sunday brassbands and the occasional visiting magician/children's entertainers. When the bandstand was not in use during weekdays, ...Read more

A memory of Kettering by raw50

I was a pupil between 1942 and 1944. My name then was Barbara Brown and I lived in Redditch, travelling each day by train. I went to Woodruff because my father had also attended the school (Walter Brown, around 1907 ...Read more

A memory of Barnt Green by barbara

My first posting concentrated on my birth and school life in Barking, next a little about different memories of my early life. I lived in the prefabs in Ilford Lane on the corner with Victoria road, a few more yards up ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

i lived at the top of sandy row in the 1950s and used to go up to the institute to roller skate from there as the building was on a slight incline. This was a beautiful old building I can't remember when it was demolished and replaced by the ...Read more

A memory of Belfast by linda_sands

I was raised in Penge - spending most of my time enjoying playing on bomb sites and the change from post war austerity to the better times of the early sixties - and can remember many of the photos displayed. I moved to Elmers ...Read more

A memory of Penge by jananchrisx