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The Hart Lane Gang
i was born in 1947 in welbeck rd, but my parents moved to hart lane, when my family grew to 7 six boys and a girl, we did'nt have a lot but we got by all the kids round hart lane derwent rd and brooms rd, we used to play football on the ...Read more
A memory of Luton
Williamson Family
My father was John Henry Williamson known as Harry. He lived with his father John William Williamson and mother Ada Florence nee Rylatt. My mother Florence Thorpe Catton was from Yorkshire and met Dad at Metheringham Feast. ...Read more
A memory of Burton Pedwardine in 1930 by
Watercress Beds Washling
I well remember the watercress beds at West Ashling as I started work there the day after I left school. Mr Pusey and his wife (he married Miss Florry Hair) were my bosses. I remember a Charlie Hotson and Harry Earl who ...Read more
A memory of East Ashling in 1953 by
Wartime Boarding School
I was evacuated from London to Blewbury Healm-wic Boarding School in 1941 (the thatched cottage shown in the photograph). The Williamson sisters ran the school, owned I believe by their brother, a naval architect (submarines). ...Read more
A memory of Blewbury in 1940 by
Upper Bourne End
My brothers and I returned to Bourne End at the end of the war. We had been evacuated to Nottingham. We lived in a small house called "The Nest". It was the last house on the road. Lunnon's Farm backed on to all the houses and a ...Read more
A memory of Bourne End in 1945 by
Those Wonderful 60`s
My father was the caretaker for the Linquists` Club in Holland St from 1959 to the early 70`s, when the building (Niddry Lodge) was demolished to make way for the new Kensington town hall. We lived in The Cottage ...Read more
A memory of Kensington in 1959 by
Those Were The Days
I remember Rye Lane in Peckham as a very busy shopping centre. I was born in the area and lived in Mcdermott Road in the prefabs (it is now a Charlie Dimock Garden) until I married in Blenheim Grove Church (behind the station)and ...Read more
A memory of Peckham by
The Glass Mountain
I remember going to Rilla Mill to see 'The Glass Mountain', I think it was Joan Fontayne. My grandmother lived in Bathpool, at Cockerels Rest with my grandfather and Charles Rice, plus dog. Charles and the dog used to walk to ...Read more
A memory of Rilla Mill by
The Bird In Hand
When I was a child in the ‘50’s around 5 years old my aunt and uncle ran this pub together with a couple of pigs, goats, chickens, geese and a cherry orchard! It was such fun spending weeks of school summer holidays there together ...Read more
A memory of Menithwood by
The Beeches Avenue
We lived at number 20 from the early 50's to 1969 when we moved down to Devon. It was a lovely street to live in with the magnificent beeches all along. Nice neighbours- the Radfords at number 16 and the Huttons at 22. We had a plot ...Read more
A memory of Carshalton by