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Does anyone remember the Hounslow Welsh Society which used to meet in a room in the grounds of Hounslow Hospital? My surname was Richards then & my Dad was a producer of the amateur dramatics & we also had a choir...I ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1952 by Peggy Roberts

My family and I moved to Peterlee in the Autumn of 1955. We lived in Thorntree Gill. Petelee was quite new then. We could see the North Sea from my parent's bedroom window. At that time there were no schools, ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee in 1955 by Margaret Sewell

In the late 50's I moved to Rochford Road, just a few hundred yards from the airport. My dad, had learned to fly in Canada during the war and was now back working as a booking clerk for British Rail at Prittlewell. As a ...Read more

A memory of Southend Airport in 1958 by Colin Prentice

I was born in East Holywell in 1946 and lived at 24 North Row. By then there were only 2 rows of houses left. We lived with my grandmother, Eva Barnfather, who had been there since the turn of the century. Like my ...Read more

A memory of East Holywell in 1950 by Maureen Thurlow

I lived with my family in Connaught Gardens from being born in 1949 to late 1960 when we moved to Shiremoor. At the end of our street was an overgrown, rubble strewn wasteland which we called 'The Croft'. A natural childrens ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall in 1950 by Malcolm Wild

I was born in north London in 1951. We moved to 3 Penzance Road when I was about 6 months old, I lived there until 1972. I remember Wallies van, buying broken biscuits from the shop in Petersfield Ave, playing runouts and tin tan ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1951 by Raymond Smith

Hi, I was born in 1945 at 9a Rectory Road, Gateshead. I was adopted 6 weeks later by Edna and Jack Dixon. My name then was Joy Dixon. I attended Brighton Road school for 10 years. I left the the north when I was 19 ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1950 by Joy Shaw

I first discovered Jaywick when I was just ten years old in 1954. I was taken there by my parents in a 1936 Bedford Van to stay with my uncle Bill, aunt Flo and cousin Bill who was 6 months younger than me. This would be ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1954 by James Tyler

I was born in 1941 in St Augustine's Rd at the top of Chalk Pit Ave. The memory I have are, the Bull Inn at the corner of Sandy Lane next to Nashes Paper Mills. Ridge ways ? the all one shop, {things past}. Doing paper rounds ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1950 by David Stallwood

I was born in north London, at the age of 5, I moved with my two twin younger brothers & parents to Harold Hill council estate on the first part built; 24 Charlbury Crescent. We had farms all around us as the rest of Harold Hill ...Read more

A memory of Gidea Park in 1956 by Brian Johns