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I was born in 1951 and lived for the first 2 years of my life at 241 the Blocks with my parents and Grandparents. This was a 2 up 2 down + attic house in a block of 3 situated on the bottom row of the blocks, now demolished. ...Read more

A memory of Barrow Hill in 1951 by Paul Gibbons

I was born in Tebbutt Street in 1951. I went to St. Pat's School. Fond memories of Osborn St. baths, Hunts chippy and the toffee apple shop on Rochdale Rd. Played on Barney's tip as a kid and who can forget the wonderful smell that used ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1951 by Bernard Tarpey

How lovely to read all these memories and what a lot I had forgotten over the years! I too, was born in Thornton House (1951) in Warwick Toad, I never realised that it used to be a school. In later years it was turned into flats ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1951 by Anthea Post

No memory really but lived in 15 North Road with older brother Paul and older sister Sylvia. My mother was Edna Elizabeth Foster and lived with her mother and stepfather, Charles Barker. My brother seems to remember the boy next door called ...Read more

A memory of Ripon in 1951 by Joyce Kent

We were a dyed in the wool London family, some time before World War 11, 1939, we moved from Earlsmead Road to Breamar Road off West Green Road and lived there at number 73 untill 1951, when we moved out into the country to ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1951 by Charles Youens

My mother was Jane Anne Bowcock, father James Bowcock. I had one brother, Brian, and two sisters, Mavis and Susan. I went to Lloyd Street Junior School and then City Road Secondary School. I used to go to Hulme ...Read more

A memory of Hulme in 1951 by Jim Bowcock

I was a patient at the Southstoke Hospital in approx 1950 and again in 1952/53. I recently visited the village and was sad to find that the beautiful house appears to be 'run down' and the ...Read more

A memory of South Stoke in 1951 by Jan Bayliss

I lived with my grandparents in Central Road, number 57, from birth until I was 3 when we moved to Highworth for a few years. My grandparents lived in the house before the war. My brother and his wife and children still live in the same house, ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1951 by Janis Read

I was born at 5 Cricklade Avenue on the 1st of December 1951, my name was Christine Bundy. When I was old enough, I went with my brother Robert, to Broadford School. I had quite a few friends that I used to play with, some of ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1951 by Chris Miller

I grew up at Alum Bay, as my parents, John & Irene Groves were managers at the Needles Hotel from 1948 - 1954. My brother Neil is 2 years older than me and we have some wonderful memories of playing in the grounds, which ...Read more

A memory of Alum Bay in 1951