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I had forgotten Suiters 'quirky' cash system but I do remember another store called Manettas which was to the right of Uxbridge station. In 1966 it caused an uproar in town as it displayed a topless dress, which was the ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Kathy Mc Nally

I came to Alllerwash Hall, Fourstones, when it was a private girls' boarding school called St.Oswalds. The Second World War had ended that summer and my mother had died just before Xmas that year, I was eleven. I had had a ...Read more

A memory of Allerwash in 1945 by Heather Rosser

It was a must in the 1960's. The Carlton was in the High Street near the post office, a few steps were at the front, leading to the entrance and it was always packed. They had a bar upstairs where you stood drinking looking down ...Read more

A memory of Slough

My grandparents, Horald and Edith Hughes, lived in Moston Cottage, Booley. Also living in the cottage were 3 of their sons; John, Douglas and Tony. My father, Basil, was no longer living at home. John and Douglas worked on the farm ...Read more

A memory of Moston in 1957 by Liz Proudman

Hi. I lived in Longley Road, Tooting opposite the bus station at the Tooting Junction end of Longley Road from 1950. We lived in a flat above Cussons grocery store until the site was bought and demolished by the council, for ...Read more

A memory of Tooting

My father, Keith Ramsay, worked at May & Baker all his working life as a Pharmaceutical Engineer and I remember, as a young child, my dad talking about the making of the children's cough mixture Tixylix and also Anthisan. Dad used to talk ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Susan Lessis

I lived at 6 Camborne Road, Welling with my mother Hermine Wright and my grandparents Fred and Elsie Wright from 1943 to 1948. I attended East Wickham Infants School, where my teacher was Miss Sharp. I think the year must ...Read more

A memory of Welling by xpristpher

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

My name is Nigel Redding and I was sent to Llangynwyd about 1942/43? as an evacuee. I was aged about 3 or 4 years old and accompanied by my older brother Alan who was 5 years older. (Both born in Rogerstone , ...Read more

A memory of Llangynwyd by Phillip Redding

My grandmother lived in a flat in the Eagles building behind Collins the butchers. In the 1951 picture, the girl on the bicycle could easily be me! I would have been 10 then and my coat was a light green with black ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh by Mrs Monica Kitchenside