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I was born in Addlestone down good old greenlane . I attend st pauls school until I left in 1969. I used to hang around crown cafe alot , there was never alot todo at night disco at the com center which always ended up with a fight .as I live in Woking moved far haven't I .I have seen many changes dukes head,magnet and Woburn hotel all pulled down for houses and the police station now gone also the co op now replaced ...see more
Opposite Deans Gardens was a little 2nd hand electrical and record shop. It was about two shops down from Drayton Green Road. Previously it had been on the other side of the road opposite the Wimpy Bar. There were second hand records both 45rpm and 33 1/3 rpm. This was my main interest. I never went in and bought a single 45rpm record always a handful. However there were tape recorders, ...see more
Where Leeland Terrace comes out by Deans Gardens there used to be a public toilets before Leeland Terrace was extended. Next to this was a shop called Retlaws. It is now a Pizza shop. However in those far off days Retlaws reigned supreme as a toy shop. Down the side was a little path in front of a long window. In this window were Dinky Toys, Hornby Dublo electric trains, Hornby Clockwork trains in O gauge, and of ...see more
I used to work in fine fare wallington in 1970 have you got any photos
My mum was born in 1923 at 4 Didcot street her name Dorothy Camp she lived most of her childhood at 9 Surrey Lane she had three sisters Violet Camp Lilian Camp Winifred Camp and Brother William Camp remember going to visit nan at 9 Surrey Lane Battersea does anyone know the Camp Family my Nan Name was Beatrice Camp grandad was William Camp she was still there in 1980 maybe longer if anyone rememberes any of her ...see more
I can still sing this old school song and remember the school motto "Nothing but the Best" inLatin of course. I still have those rolled up group photos but also my badge from my blazer, Thanks for the memory.
Woolworths for a small boy had a certain fascination, well for me it did. Firstly I remember being bought a tin plate trolley bus by my mum. It was Empire made. There were the arms on the roof just like the real one we had come on from Hanwell. Next the peanuts, they were in a sort of chrome box with a light bulb over them, so they were warm. My they tasted good when your mum passed down the bag to you. Very, very, ...see more
At the juction of Leeland Road and Leeland Terrace was the Jackaranda Coffee Bar. Around the late fifties this was the place to be. Unfortunately I was too young to go in. I used to ride from Hanwell on my bike and look at it in wonder. I can remember thinking that there were things to look forward to. The music, the clothes. Somehow there seemed so much optimismn around.
My Dad was in the Canadian army and was posted to London when I was 7 years old . We lived in the top flat at 27 Chartfield Avenue . What a magical place ! The back yard was huge, with apple, pear and cherry trees to climb and a massive grassy area to run .
We were an international neighbourhood. Our building had Canadians in the top flat, English in the middle and Japanese on ...see more
I remember the school trip to the Isle of Wight May 19th to June 2nd 1961. I still have my notes and scarp book. I had a really great time and went back 2 years ago to have another look. The isle of Wight still lovely. I met up in 1973 with either Pat or Linda Long who worked in the child care at Charing Cross & Fulham Hospital when my father was there.
Can you remember when we beat Hagley Park to win this trophy?
Get in touch with any information or if you recognise any one in the photo, thanks.
Brian Richings (I am to the right of the trophy holder)
My grandparents lived in this village, or rather in the lanes round about it. The Tyndale Monument, which we referred to simply as 'The Monument', was accessible only on foot, and in those days was all sealed up as it was considered dangerous. More recently it has been renovated and can now be entered, giving a wonderful view over the Severn Valley.
My grandparents were always a delight to visit. ...see more
I remember M & S very well in West Ealing. Around the fifties they had St Michael toys. One I remember was a milk float, it had little crates with bottles in them. It was made of polythene as a lot of toys were then. Also they had an electric train set made by Rovex in Margate. They went on to become Triang. As a teenager I bought shirts there. I remember one with red spots on it. Quite stylish and fitted, it just ...see more
F W Rowse was a department store on the Uxbridge Road. I remember on the ground floor you passed the furniture until you reached the toys at the back. On the right was material and patterns. I remember going with my mum and watching her buy material. There were big tables which had a sort of meter on where the material was unrolled and the assistant ran it through the meter to measure the length. There were also drawers of ...see more
Hi, I am researching my fathers family tree and in 1939 it shows their address as being The Old Shop, Kington. The names are Arthur John Deakins,
Martha Jane Deakins (my grandparents) and Thomas George Deakins (my father who would have been 13 yrs old then).
If anyone has any old photographs of the Old Shop around that time or indeed any other information I'd be very grateful.
Regards,
Dawn (nee Deakins)
I ATTENDED HERE FROM 1952 TO 1959. MANY FOND MEMORIES BUT ESPECIALLY
MR DAVY MY CHEMISTRY MASTER WHO HELPED ME TO GAIN ADMITTANCE TO
IMPERIAL COLLEGE AND A DEGREE IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING. LONG GONE BUT
NOT FORGOTTEN.......THANKS MATT !!!
JAMES INGRAM
Hi, I was born in 1946 at the South London Hospital for Women and lived for a while at 15 Etruria St. Battersea, it was near Dogs Home Bridge and Battersea Power Station, where my dad, Charlie Jones worked.
Soon we moved to 29 Anhalt Rd. near Albert Bridge. While living in Anhalt Rd. and at the tender age of four or five, I made my way back to Battersea Park funfair where I'd been taken earlier that ...see more
I was born at 50 Milling Street in 1955. I had my Auntie and Uncle living a few doors down. I was one of 6 kids so there were 8 of us crammed into our upstairs flat. The toilet was outside and downstairs in the backyard, while the tin bath hung on the wall outside!! How life has changed for young families today in 2017. Life was very tough back then but it made us stronger and so grateful for the good life we have ...see more
I spent ten years of my life at the Holmeliegh from 1939-1949. I was known to everyone there,
children & staff as BUNNY and I can honestly say that although things where hard I was never mistreated in any way. We were looked after well and really wanted for nothing except maybe real Mother love. I was a bit of a rebel and often got punished but never violent
I read the article by Michael ...see more
I used to enjoy a visit to Strawberry Fields. I remember you could buy a little pack of five CD singles for a £1.00. They were in a sealed bag so you got a surprise. The last CD I bought was by Mike and the Mechanics. I always enjoyed my visit.
My Dad, Mark Schofield went to Goodall Rd School from about 1947 - 51.
He remembers having a school photo taken during this time and we would love to find a copy.
If anyone can help, please let me know
thanks, Jane
My Harrison ancestors all came from Cambridgeshire, mostly from the Downham, where they were agricultural laborers and my father, Victor Alfred George Harrison was born in 1914 in Peterborough. His father, George William Harrison, my grandfather, finished his service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force after he was wounded and decided to move from Peterborough to the Camden, London, area is search of work ...see more
I was born in Hawkhurst in 1941 went to school there from January 1947 until I got married my maiden name was Jsephine Mary HILLMAN. Ihave been married to Roger. Maynard for 57 years does anyone remember me?
I worked as a consultant engineer in Ireland in the early nineteen ninety's staying in the Carrickdale hotel in Dromad, just over the border, as my base in the South whilst working in Newry. I also traveled further south to visit factories in the group situated between Newry and Dublin using a fleet car provided by Glen Electric Company based in Newry.
It was a truly memorable period in my ...see more
I was ten years old when I was enrolled at Glenhow prep school. My parents worked in Kenya and thought it would be a good idea to send their son to boarding school instead of being with all my friends in Kenya.
I was expelled at the age of 13 and moved on to Lindisfarne College in Wales.
I loved Saltburn, it holds some happy memories for me. The head master at that time was Mr Rayson who I think moved on to somewhere in York.
Are there any boy's that went to Glenhow at that time.
I used to work at Heathrow and after early shift I sometimes made my way in my mini van to the aquadrome. I would hire a metal rowing boat and row and just drift. How wonderful was that. This was around 1970. Afterwards I would walk around the lake and perhaps go to the Swiss Coffee House.
Hello
Anyone remember John Burgess the butcher? He lived on Nashville St then Branson St. I can't find any record of his shop but he ran it during the war. He was my grandfather.
Thanks
I started my orthopaedic training at Lord Mayor Treloars in 1950 a two year training. Have just found this site very interesting brought back lots of memories.
Whilst I will be visiting Milverton before too long, I have no personal memories as yet.
I have however found a letter written by my birth mother on 21st Nov 1956 her address was Milverton Somerset. Her name was Margaret Elizabeth Williams and she was a State Registered Nurse working as a live-in private nurse in the South West at that time. The address is difficult to read, it could be Cate Rd, or Cale Rd or even Bale ...see more
I was at Boyles Court in 1975, and what began as a very frightening journey into the unknown turned into an adventure of a life time, you can read my blog and memories good and bad right here
https://www.facebook.com/waynejefferiesxx
The shop on the right wasa newsagents called Wrights, there was a greengrocer'so on the opposite side of the street which was a family business called Hammonds
Hi, I lived in Hextable from about the age of 9 until I was 17, when I joined the WRAF. We lived in New Road and there was a nursery opposite where we lived and the road was UN made. There was also an agricultural college in College Road.
The school was not there, the site of the school was what we knew as the avenue with a lot of trees where we would walk the dog.
I am going back to the 60's early 70's. I did a paper ...see more
RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE
By Lt Col Taylor
Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now occupy some of the Stratford and Warwick Farm lands adjacent to 'The Angler's Rest'; the common ground which used to exist alongside the school has some residences on it and, a little ...see more
Does anyone remember the orphanage at pallotti hall in the late 1960s/early 1970s?My wife was there as a very young child and would love to share your memories.
We lived in Hillingdon but I used to often visit Southall as a child as my father and uncle had shops in South Road. On Saturday my father and I used to arrive early morning then visit a cafe a few doors away with plasticised tables where we enjoyed hot drinks. The shop had deep wooden drawers beneath the counter and there was a basement, a back room on the ground floor with offices above where there was a safe and ...see more
I was born in 1946 and lived in Dongola rd until 1966 when I married . My name then was Pizzey I went to Downhills infants and junior school and then on to Belmont seniors. My friends were Linda Whitehead Barbara Bell Sandra Harris Robin and Christopher Whitbread David Wise Ivor Jones ,to name but a few .Have many good memories of the penny bikes over Downhills park also Tottenham Lido and of course the Royal .Is there anyone out there that remembers me or anyone I've mentioned
My name is Peter West and I started my life and spent the first 7 important years at the Oak. My dad was the landlord and and his father before him up until 1962 when he retired and I was whisked away in tears to go to our new home in Devon.I have such strong and fond memories of it all. Mr. Willsdens greengrocer shop. Mr Kirkby the chemist on Maple Road. Crossed to Home Park on Victor Townsends ferry. I ...see more
I was curious to know if anyone remembered the school in the early 60s- I enjoyed my time at Rivington Road- remember the bluebells near the school and love them to this day. We had a trainee teacher who really inspired me - even now I remember making water clocks and dying fabric like they did in Roman times - I used onion skins and it turned the fabric yellow! We built Hadrian's wall in the ...see more
Sad boat accident Monday morning 26th March 1877 at Ryton. There were two brothers named Scott who lived in a house on Ryton Island, this was just below Moor Court. (You can read about this in my other stories). The brothers had the Salmon Fisheries rights and along with this came the rights of the ferry boatman. Formally the boat was rowed across the river, but before the Scott's took over there was a strong ...see more
I remember living on Coronation st from 1959 until they were pulled down in 1969, I attended the primary school at the top of Mill street,just a 5 minute walk from home.
I had a wonderful childhood,playing football with my friends in the rec. or collecting birds eggs in the fields and woods around Culling Worth!
I remember steam trains at the station, but they must have been the very last ones ...see more
My father worked at Chubbs factory around the late 50's and into the 60's. He lived with my Mum and two sisters opposite the factory. I am trying to trace anyone who may have known him working in the factory. He died in 1968. He was called Alan Hammond and my Mum was Gladys Sophia Hammond (formerly Smith). All of my relatives have passed away and I have been trying to find out about him and whether any photographs were taken of employees at the time.
Michelle
I remember visiting Redbrook as a teenager. My cousin Peggy and Michael Alvis lived in Hillside Road I went to school with their eldest daughter Margaret. I was fascinated with this quant village and village life. I later visited family in Monmouth when I was On a Geography field trip in Hereford. The views from their road still stick in my mind after 55years. Dorothy Archbold
I have tried and failed to find any info about the small private school I went to in 1959 to1961. It was called Park School and was on Holmefield ave cleveleys. I was Susan Cope back then and I think the headteacher was Mrs Neil.I was friends with Kathleen Gardner but lost touch with her a long time ago.I would love to hear from anyone from then
Sherry's was a milk, ice cream and coffee bar, as you say opposite the Odeon. My father and mother were the managers there in the 60's. My dad made the best milkshakes and ice cream sundaes. Many top bands appeared at the Odeon and used the bar before and after performances. There was an autograph book which was kept by the counter. My eldest sister still has it. It is signed by many including Joe Brown, The Rolling ...see more
In the Oaks Park in about 1958 I recall seeing a pile of rails and sleepers which appeared to have been from a narrow gauge railway. It was near the big house which was partly demolished by then.
Does anyone remember a railway in the park?
I lived in Coulsdon from 1955 first in Woodcote Grove Road opposite Smitham school which I attended from 1958-1963. I remember the shops vividly from the United Dairies to Sainbury's with the wall tiles and the cheese cutter and butter pats. I went to school with Barbara Busby, Gillian Honey and Jane Salter and the favourite playground activity was swapping scraps - does anyone remember them!
I left Smitham ...see more
Oh the waterfall
https://www.francisfrith.com/memories/great-times-in-1988_653186799/edit#write
and the slide!
As a child in the mid sixties I remember that during the summer holidays my mother would take my sisters and myself for picnics occasionally in the walled garden that was at Langley Vale and also remember how we loved the peace and quiet within those walls. As an adult I mentioned this place to my then partner back in the mid 1980's as she didn't know of it at that time but was similarly taken by ...see more
I went to school at St Johns Church of England School 1955-1961 - remember Hedleys butchers Ecobs chemist the wynott - and many of the 'kids' I went to school with - Elaine Salt, Kathryn Westley, Barbara Ward, Kathryn Banks, Una Kirkhan, John Kendal, Joseph Hedley, Robert Baker, and others very happy memories of the teachers too - Miss Powell, Mr Feast, Mr Smith, Mrs Beasley - my name was/is kathleen birch - do you remember anyone??
I moved to southall with my parents and a younger sister in the late 1950's. My parents immigrated from India and I was about 5-6 years old. I went to Featherstone Road school and then onto Western Road higher Secondary School in the 1960's.
We lived at 28 Florence Road and across the road was my friend Hazel Mobbs.There was a really lovely bakery shop on the corner of my road and I ...see more
Susan Williams was born at Malmesbury Hospital in 1949 to John and Shelagh. We lived with my Grandparents at Lea until were housed at Charlton Park. As previous families have said, us children were blessed to live there. I was luckier than most as my uncles, aunts & cousins lived there too. Derek & Jilly (with big Alsatian, Jennie) Bill and Edna with Ginny & Walt, Joan with Christine and Donna ...see more
I was born in nunhead in 1939,lived in barest road,nunhead,i survived the bombing years,was avacuated for a while,then returned to hide in the Anderson shelter in our back garden,went to holidale road school,then on to Peckham rye secondry,i knew everyone in our street,and along nunhead lane,there was mrs cheese the paper shop,charley morgons the second hand cloathing shop,toms café,the pet shop,the bombsite next to the ...see more
I went to Riverside School and played out in the sunny weather in the summer we had back then. This post I have just found fiddling around on my iPad. What a joy it is to see the old places The Derby Pool, Harrison Drive, Central Park and the Wallasey show and circus that was there in July. I married in 1961 and left Seacombe for Moreton . After ...see more
Hello
I have no memory of Biggleswade but very interested because I was born there I lived in Stotfold and went to infant school there and used to visit Letchworth and Hitchin but left the area to go and live in Denham Bucks. I now live in Windsor have moved around quite a lot in my life
It was the late 1950's and we were travelling in a motorbike and sidecar. Mum and dad were on the bike and the two children (my brother and I) in the sidecar. We started to descend slowly down the hill, all wondering at the exciting views. All quiet, reflecting the concern of the parents.... Half way down and so good. Then, the penultimate bend. The brake line snapped. Swerving, stuttering bike, ...see more
I was born in Hayling in 1948 and lived there until 1958. I lived in Westfield Ave and later Ilex Walk. My parents worked for Sir Arthur Sanders and his in laws Mr & Mrs Olivier (aunt & uncle of Sir Lawrence Olivier) Mr Olivier was a portrait artist in the war. They lived at Orchard Close, which is now an old people's home. One of my earliest memories was at a big dinner they used to give every year for ...see more
I remember seeing The Walker Brothers 1964/65 at The Palace, it was chaotic they had to be pulled off stage I fell over and I couldn't get up I rember trying desperately and getting panicky then someone put out a hand and pulled me up I got to the back as quickly as possible very shaken, and saw the Walkers being hoisted off stage
I Remember going to East Acton infants ,john Perryn junior and then Bromyard avenue later to be faraday .We lived in a prefab in church field road Sundays was a treat walking up to tony brothers ice cream shop (bowl in hand) I also remember Doris ,little kiosk near the park and level crossing.we moved to East Acton lane (nearer school) on leaving I took an apprenticeship with hairdressers (jacques)happy times ,people I ...see more
I spent happy years at Hackbridge School 1949 to 1954.
We had sports in the Grange Park I think.
I lived at Mitcham Junction so it was a old penny bus fare or a walk, I seem to remember walking passed Watercress beds.
hi I found your memories by chance x I lived in dabbs hill from 1965 till 79 x I too went to Vincent x hung out at West end youth club which was opp target x went to old field n birds nest x I was a skin head with my mate maggsMurphy x she lived in Tenby gardens x oh what memories x I he now moved back to dabbs hill x so sad ix area has changed x lovedploughyugh pub n railway harrow
This photo brings back the memory of the High Street, I was born in 1946 in one of the houses in the picture, it was between the Horse and Groom pub and the telephone exchange. My gran lived in the house for so long they named it after her it was called Spong Cottage. My mother lived in Chobham all her life and was highly involved in the football club, her name was Daisy Walley. It was a happy time but we cannot turn the clock back.
I remember my days of playing on the large pips that lay on the grounds which is now a car park at the bottom of the Largs road does anyone else remember the pips that lay there.
Has I was growing up in Penge with my family it was a lovely place Susan Boyce .
I was born in 1951 in Lea Road and moved to the Havelock Estate when I was 3, went to Clifton Road school and then on to Western Rd School when I was 11, does anyone remember that time. My maiden name is Cowburn
I lived in Stockwell park road and we used to go to the ram jam club on a Saturday or Sunday I worked at woolworths when I left park side secondary modern school happy memory's
Unfortunately I do not have memories of Kewstoke as my Mother was moved from the maternity home after I was 2 weeks old to Bognor Regis. I would like to know more about my birth place. For instance where the maternity home was , and possibly what it is now if it is still standing. Can anyone help with this please. Thank you.
I have wonderful childhood memories of staying with family friends during the school holidays in Gt. Wenham. Joyce and Goggy along with their daughters Reba who was about 6 and Hazel Jane who was still stilling up in her pram. They emigrated to Australia when I was still young and I never heard anything after that.
I was born in chattisham in 1955, my mother worked as a maid for Mrs Charrington (of charringtons breweries) at their big house, I have photos of us there when I was about 3yrs old. My dads family came from Hintlesham nearby. The Baker family
Saturday morning pictures at the cinema that we used to call the Flea Pit. I attended Holmshill school unitl I left in 1965. I remember playing games of hockey at Hillside school that we used to refer to as St. Trinians as we were lucky to escape there without too many injuries.
Has anyone got any memories of the Arcade, especially the Barber's shop as I would be most interested to learn what happened to the owners.
I worked at the Beach Hotel in the early 1990s.
I worked as the Restaurant manager ,the last one just before it closed .
All so sad .
It was supposed to be fully refurbished,but it all fell through.
The Hotel was so busy, and popular , and loved so much .
I remember the manager (Roy Edicar) saying that it more than payed its way.
Very tired looking, but nobody seemed to mind .
Some lovely ...see more
Used to go out with a chap (wont say his name) who lived in Knockholt, his dad was a GP there at the time....lovely...lived in a lovely house of the beaten track as I remember, with it's own driveway and lovely trees on both sides....beautiful place.....only went there the once, but has stayed in my memory.
I am researching for a book and wish to get in touch with anyone who knew this family. They lived at 15 East Dulwich grove in 1936. One of the family became a policeman and married a Brenda Whicher in 1949. Thank you John Taylor
I was about 5 when we moved here approximately 1943 from Perham Down. I went to the Garrison School in the Tidworth Barracks, with the American PX behind us. They chucked us kids sweets etc. - a luxury with sweets on the ration. There was a very old market next door to the front of the school and it was pulled down. Believe there were rats under the floor boardings. They sold food and had a shoe shop at one ...see more
lived in margate from approx. 1945 to 1952. There was a pier with a life boat station halfway up.Took a trip on the lifeboat, public once year, and was really seasick. There was also the Pavilion, close by was a 'pillbox' a wartime concrete structure meant to provide defence against invaders. As kids we would get into it and explore all kinds of things. First time I ever saw someone naked. would love to hear if anyone else ...see more
The boy on the right at the front is my brother David Bailey.
i was born in Wolverhampton in 1945 mum and dad were Londoners and in 1948 we moved in with my nan rose pearce and granddad Arthur everyone called him pop I had an elder sister rose and brother albie my dads name was albert and mums was rose we lived in Tewksbury road I remember the woodberry pub because pop was always in it in 1950 mum dad and me moved to the new flats in ida road where I grew up same ...see more
Not sure what glyn.brian7 was seeing out the back of the Regent Cafe, but my mum and dad ran a cafe on weekends in Chipstead at the entrance to Banstead woods from the late 1940's until the early 60's and my dad was the only other person as best I know that Tony Capaldi allowed to sell his ice cream. We went to Tony's cafe every week to pick up the ice cream, and I spent half my childhood into my teenage ...see more
TBB (tech block b) housed a large stores area in which I worked for about three years. I was on a two shift system earlies 0630hrs start and lates 1445hrs start. I worked in receipts which faced the Great South West Road. I worked with a senior man called John Jarvis, he was very pleasant and took time to explain things. There was usually a delivery of an engine from Treforest (engine overhaul ...see more
i was at thee school from 1962 to 1965 have good and bad memorys would love to hear from anyone who was there i remember a boy i think he was gary he was a twin . i am on facebook please contact me i am patricia lovett and my profile picture is a white cat. i will never for get miss bendy or a girl called nora, also the young girl with a false eye. one off the boys there came from algate he did go to the same school that i went to he had a twin sister
My memories of Wallasey go back to 1945. I went to St George's road school. Mr Sykes was the headmaster. I remember Barry West Valerie Windsor Jennifer Dean and many more. Miss Merrick was our last class teacher. My parents had the cycle shop in Wallasey. Village. Longworhs. Does anyone have any other memories?
