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Sellincourt school memories. Hi everyone! My name is Nusrat Khan and I attended Sellimcourt Primary school during the early 1970's and what a brilliant decade that was! I lived above my dad's dry ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1974 by Nusrat Khan

I lived at 11 Church Lane with my sister Anne and parents, John and Barbara Mawson, until 1978. It was my grandfather's house (William Henry Cazaly) that he bought in the 1950's and had sold it to my parents in 1965. ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow in 1969 by Joy Connell

In the summer of 1952 I learnt that my parents had decided to move from our home in the Midlands to the West Country as my father wished to return to where his relatives lived. It came as no surprise therefore, when one day they ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth in 1952

On my first day at Corringham School, my mother walked me, aged five, down the long lane from Aisby with our faithful old dog Floss and a playmate, Monica Bramford, a year or so older than me. During assembly I started to cry ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1950 by Valerie Walker

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

I was born in Edlington in 1940 but was soon given to my aunties Joan and Lilley Desborough to be looked after as my mother already had a child by my future step dad. I lived at 39 St. Thomas Road, second to end house, my next ...Read more

A memory of Stainforth in 1946 by Bryan Maloney

My grandfather was Harry Baxter Darnell, he had a bungalow on the Warren. My mother, brother Donald and sister Vera stayed there during the 2nd world war. My mother was Nellie Crossley ...Read more

A memory of Gronant in 1941 by Sandra Mc Cabe

A miner's family from Blaenrhondda - Watkins - were lodgers in the late 1930's with my parents living in Colindale, Hendon, NW London. I was born in 1926 and when I was ten the idea came for me to stay for a holiday in ...Read more

A memory of Blaenrhondda in 1930 by Sidney Holt

My husband Vic moved into the brand new council estate in 1968 with his parents and sister - Champney Close. His house backed onto the common and MOD training land. He’d stand up on the embankment watching the trains pass ...Read more

A memory of Whitehill by D Toovey

We moved from Chelmsford to Radcliffe in 1968 - I was 2 years old. I went to Lorne Grove Nursery and my memory of that was the Rocking Horse Toy. I hated sharing it!! I was about 3 or 4 and I remember being so upset at being taken ...Read more

A memory of Radcliffe on Trent by Claire Suzanne Izard