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I think about 1955, when I was living in St Pauls Cray on the main road by Hearns Rise, there was a lady who always wore a brown coat and used to spend most of the day walking up and down in front of Orchard ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1955 by Derek Stocker

I spent many very happy holidays at my uncle's house, number 8 Beach Street directly behind the pub in the photo. It was an old house with very steep stairs with large ropes instead of handrails. It had no electricity although gas was fitted ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1954 by Anthony Lock

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

Hi lads, just putting this on the site as I am hoping to contact as many of the boys who were at Mobberley with me. I may be remembered for my singing in the church choir and sometimes I was asked to sing before the ...Read more

A memory of Mobberley in 1955 by Peter Blythin

My granddad used to stay here and mum said it was a lovely Victorian hotel, very comfortable, it became a Trust House hotel, I believe but was pulled down in the early sixties. Amazing to think all the traffic to the south coast ...Read more

A memory of Horsham in 1955 by John Skinner

I spent 2 years there 1956 to 1959. I was sent to Delamere to help recover after the war - bad nerves and from other circumstances. I was always in trouble as I did not want to be there. I ran away twice - I was found trying ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1956 by Dan Josephson

My parents, John S M Jones and Eileen Jones (née Kelly), ran Nearwell Hostel from 1951 to 56. My father taught at the Tech. I was born in Oswestry in 1950 and attended St.Giles School near the Column while we lived in Shrewsbury. I ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1953 by Sarah Emch Jones

I was born in 1952. My Mum and Dad were brought up in Weymouth and although they moved to Gloucestershire after the war, all four grandparents remained in Weymouth. So the whole family, which included my three sisters, ...Read more

A memory of Weymouth in 1958 by Jeremy Windust

Oh, how I remember sliding down those sand hills with my brother. It used to be a day out with my parents from Old Trafford and a stop on the way back at a pub in Altrincham. We were left in the car with crisps and pop... I wish I could do the same with my grandkids!

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1951 by John Lawson

As others have said, the open fields, Farthing Downs. I lived in Bradmore Way, Old Coulsdon in the 50s, there was so much open unbuilt ground on the lower part of the road and behind our house in Meadway which was full of wild life. Every ...Read more

A memory of Coulsdon in 1952 by Keith Goodwin