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I went to NGS in 1939. It was a great school. Those school dinners cooked on site by Annie the cook and the smell coming up the corridor about 11o'clock. I remember when they started building the air raid shelters at the ...Read more

A memory of Earlestown in 1930 by William Smith

Can anyone tell me something about 'Hickson, Lloyd & King', they were a wholesale warehouses based in Piccadilly, first on Market Street then on Portland Street? It is the Portland Hotel now owned by Thistle. My family ...Read more

A memory of Manchester

I was born in Thorpe Coombe Hospital in 1941 and grew up in Erskine Road Walthamstow which led on to Walthamstow Market. My brother Barry and I would be given a threepenny bit piece by our granddad who lived with our ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow in 1940 by Maureen Shanks

When I was little and we went shopping in Chichester, I always liked looking for King Charles on the medieval Market Cross in the city centre. One of the niches on the Market Cross holds a bronze ...Read more

A memory of Chichester in 1955 by Julia Skinner

Can remember most of the shops in this part of the street. My father worked in the shop beyond the Wimpy Bar - Lascelles fishmongers. Fred the butchers, Lanes ice-cream, the Hot Oven, Hall & Warner, the ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1955 by Pam Odam

I was actually born in 75 Gurnell Grove, in the front room. I went to Cuckoo Hill Infants School and also I think the junior school. I remember going to Saturday morning 'pictures' and I also think there was another movie house in ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1950 by Julia Morris

I lived in Reading Road which is Northolt but I remember so well South Harrow. I went to Guides and was married in the baptist church in South Harrow. I worked Saturdays in a chemist next to Vickers, the hardware shop. I had to ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1964 by Kathleen Davies

I was born in Chelmsford in 1937 and can remember going to the market every week and seeing all the farm animals such as cows, bulls, pigs, sheep, chickens, rabbits, etc. all there for sale. My favourite part, though, was ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford in 1960 by Linda Slingsby

My family live at the top of Fife Street and always have. I really started to notice the town when I was about 7 (1968). The places I would go to when I was young (mainly with my mum) were;, The Beehive wool shop on the corner ...Read more

A memory of Nuneaton by Kay Hope

Every Tuesday lunch time I went to the market held in the Market Place. At that time animals, with the exception of fully grown cattle, were sold in the Market Place. I remember, on a hot summer day, seeing several escaped pigs ...Read more

A memory of Salisbury in 1946 by John Crouch