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In the mid 50s we lived in St Georges Road Palmers Green my brothers and I went to St Georges Presbyrtarian Church for Sunday school and Hazelwood Lane Primary School. Going to the cinema on Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1956 by Marsha Street

Colomendy Camp was my first job after leaving school. I worked in the main house as a maid and then went to work in the dining hall of the boys' camp. I worked there for a year before moving on to the Glass Factory in Saltney. I loved ...Read more

A memory of Loggerheads in 1951 by Jean Linton Schoonover

I can repeat much of what has been said by others. I was born in Stepney in 1946 and after a period of homelessness and moving from friend to friend my parents were given a prefab in Foxglove Crescent (no. 25) It was a fairly ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1950 by Ken Nicholls

I have very fond memories of summer holidays in my aunties cottage that is my grandmas sisterinlaws on adelaide road. Going to the open air swimming pool playing on the park the pub across the road from her house that sold ...Read more

A memory of Andover Down in 1959 by Sandra Barlow

I lived at Willow Lane in the mid fifties and I was in the local hospital there which I think was called Hayton Hospital(but not sure of the spelling or area) Can anyone remember this please or where I could maybe find a ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1956 by Christime Finn

I remember well the amazing west road this was a group of houses owned by watney brewery. The road was enclosed by a brick wall at one end and iron gates at the other. No cars allowed. The families mostly only rented two rooms, so ...Read more

A memory of Mortlake in 1950 by Kathleen Slark

Reading all these memories brings back mine. I lived in Waterlooville from 1945 (I was born in Jubilee Road Nursing Home) to 1966. We lived in Winifred Road, and I went to the Infants in Stakes Hill Road, then the Tin Hut, and ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1950 by Eileen Sainsbury

I attended Palmers Green High School in the late fifties and early sixties. There were no school playing fields so we had to go to Ford's Grove in Winchmore Hill for sport. One day I and a group of friends went to find ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1959 by Marilyn Hall

I think this date is about right. I started St, Luke's when I was six. It was on the corner of Mode Wheel Road and Eccles New Road. It was a great little school. My first teacher was Mrs Goldstraw, There was Mr Jones in the ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1951 by Hazel Bolger

at the age of 4 I moved to the cottage by the ford in the October,. there hadn't been anybody living there for quite q while so there were a lot of weeds and long grass and stinging nettles to get through ...Read more

A memory of North Warnborough in 1950 by Barbara Vickery