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I remember getting off a bus in Upper George Street with my dad and walking down towards George Street and I saw the library and said what's that pointing - my dad said "It's a library and you borrow books from there". I was amazed and ...Read more

A memory of Luton in 1957 by Lynda Powers

I was sent to Oak Bank school as a seven year old and stayed for about two years. The Matron was a lovely lady called Miss Bremner, and I remember I stayed in a dorm called Oak, all the dormitories were named after trees. I have ...Read more

A memory of Seal in 1951 by Tina Shaheen

I just found the Ramsden Bellhouse site and wrote in the guest book. My memories of Wickford are shopping there, watching cricket, catching the bus. I worked in London and more than once getting off the train in ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1950 by Brenda Hayward

I founded an amateur film club in 1959 called Royston Films and the very first short film we made in May of 1959 was called The Runaways all about two lads who decided to run away from home following arguments with their Parents. It ...Read more

A memory of Oxshott in 1959 by Ray Darrell

I was born at 59 Tynemouth Road, Tottenham in 1949, does anyone remember us? My brother's name is Bruce Abbott and I had a sister called Pat,who sadly died in 1965. Upstairs to us was Robert Parmer and his brother, I think his name ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton in 1950 by Shirley Abbott

The Old Boys, hope there are plenty still around. Got dumped off at the main entrance during 1956, Trunk and Tuck Box which immediately was commandeered or used as a bribe to get a decent bed. I remember being shut out on the ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1957 by Paul Castle

14/08/11 My grandparents used to take me on holiday in their motorbike and sidecar to Hunstanton and Heacham when I was a small boy. It would have been between 1948 and 1950. I remember vividly going on a boat with wheels down the ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1950 by Anthony Savery

I was born at the bottom of the Rawnsley Road, by the double bridges, known as Pool End, after Hednesford Park which used to be a pool. I was a Cub in the 1st Hazel Slade Scouts, our meeting place was at the church near ...Read more

A memory of Hazelslade in 1950 by Peter Hawthorne

I was born in Bovey at what is now the Old Library in East Street, but in 1937 was the Liberal Club. My Godfather Dick Smaridge lived just down the street at Number 14. After his son Eric was shot down in the War I mostly lived with ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale in 1954 by Michael Steer

Many years ago, about 1951, us children myself and my brothers and our friends used to play on the fields where now Bilston Colledge is situated off the Wellington Roa in Bilston. We had such fun playing on those ...Read more

A memory of Bilston in 1954 by Pauline Powell