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My earliest memory of 'The Yard', as everyone called it, was 1953 when the Queen sailed up the Thames on her return from her Commonwealth Tour (I think) just after her Coronation. I remember waving my Union Jack. My grandad was there ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet in 1953 by Susan Mitchell

I lived in Hatch End, and went to school in Pinner where one of my school friends, Andy Butler (where are you now Andy?) revealed he collected bus numbers! Until then, I had never thought much about buses as I was used ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1959 by John Howard Norfolk

On my first day at Corringham School, my mother walked me, aged five, down the long lane from Aisby with our faithful old dog Floss and a playmate, Monica Bramford, a year or so older than me. During assembly I started to cry ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1950 by Valerie Walker

1959-1963 - I remember my teachers - Miss Newall, Mr Parkinson, Mr Glazer and finally Mr Hesketh (class 4A1); and the Headmaster, whose name I thought was Harrison, but others remember him as Henderson, so perhaps I am wrong. He ...Read more

A memory of Ormskirk in 1959 by Rachel Duerden

I was born in Lumphinnans Road but my childhood memories of growing up are in Station Road where the houses were knocked down to build Lochgelly School. My name is Anne Steedman, my mum & dad were Mary & Andrew. The girl next ...Read more

A memory of Lochgelly in 1953 by Annie Gibbs

My Grandfather worked at Langwathby station for many years 1950s and I think the early 60s. He used to also look after the flowers on the station. His name was Arthur Sisson, he lived and run a small farm in Melmerby with my ...Read more

A memory of Kirkoswald in 1950 by Judy Selby Boothroyd

When I was 8 and my brother 10, we went to live in Bawdrip for a short while with my dad who was working there at the time. He took us to stay with an elderly couple, Mr and Milliner, where he was lodging and they looked after us ...Read more

A memory of Bawdrip in 1958 by Catherine Murray

The boys home was an awful place but I remember falling in love with a blonde haired angel who like me, attended Stepgates School. Her name was Gillian Vincent and I still have a photograph of her tucked ...Read more

A memory of Chertsey in 1950 by Ronald Strange

This is Coombe Lane looking towards Raynes Park station, just visible on the righthand edge of the photo. We lived over the butcher's shop in the mid 1950's so its probable we were in residence when it was taken. The ...Read more

A memory of Raynes Park in 1955 by John Young

I was born in Seaton next to the Geoge and Dragon in 1949. I still live in the village, in a house we moved into in 1952. Seaton gave me a great childhood. In the 50's it was very much an agricultural village ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1956 by John Mayfield