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Half way down Garfield Road was the Recreation Ground; better know to all as simply the Rec. It was quiet a large area bounded on one side by Garfield Road and the other by the River Wandle, about which more another time. Along ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1954 by David Aubrey

Mr Atlee, or as he was when I knew him, Old Mr Atlee, lived on the corner of Cowper and Garfield Roads. Garfield Road was a long road starting at the balloon factory, passing the primary school and the Rec and ending at the ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1953 by David Aubrey

Hi, I was born in 1952 at Silver Terrace, Southdown, lived there till 1965, went to primary school at Blindwell Hill. I still have relatives living there, lots of older relatives buried there. Great memories of long summers wandering ...Read more

A memory of Millbrook in 1952 by Stephen Mewton

I think this must be the Windmill by John Ruskin School on Upper Shirley Road. If I remember right there was a pub (The Sunrise?) nearby. Many an hour was spent on my old track bike in Shirley Hills and the tea shop.

A memory of Shirley in 1957 by Roger Steer

I was a paper boy for Mr Watkins, in the High Road, and delivered bundles of newspapers to Claybury Hospital seven days a week. There were so many bundles, I could not ride the trades bike as it was all up hill, even up to ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1950 by Frank Bedford

My mother just turned 100 October 6th. Her name is Brenda Preece (Walters) and was born in Brynhyfrydd 29 Hillside, Crumlin. My Nana once owned the grocery store opposite and the house was next to the church. Her first cousin ...Read more

A memory of Crumlin in 1955 by Susan Tupa

Yes I remember spending most of our (my brother John and I) summer holidays playing on Runcorn Hills. Both parents worked and so most mornings, weather permitting, we would head off to the hills from our home in Weston Village, armed ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1953 by David Roberts

I also remember Weston Road, that is the road leading from Weston Village down into Runcorn, via the Isolation Hospital and then down into Greenway Road. My father Owen Roberts worked all his life at the ICI Castner Kelner ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1952 by David Roberts

I entirely share the words posted earlier by Philip Dew, one of my colleagues at Kemsing Primary school at the time. That trek over the hills to Woodlands now would be seen perhaps as a long haul journey ! That old grey horse ...Read more

A memory of Sevenoaks in 1955 by Alan Cutts

I remember when I was about 14 being a choir boy in St Mary's Church. This would be 1953. We used to receive two shillings and sixpence for weddings, some of us belonged to another church further down the road toward Chatham and we would ...Read more

A memory of Chatham in 1953 by Brian Atkinson