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I'm sure Barnet Cinema is well remembered, but I cannot find any photograph of it. Another building that I recall is GOTHIC HOUSE which stood at the top of Baker's Hill and overlooked Clifford Road golf course and ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1950 by Roland Wood

How lovely to read all these memories and what a lot I had forgotten over the years! I too, was born in Thornton House (1951) in Warwick Toad, I never realised that it used to be a school. In later years it was turned into flats ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1951 by Anthea Post

I remember going to Slough on a Saturday night in 1958. I was fifteen years old. My hair was well greased and combed back at the sides and ending in a D.A. at the back together a quiff at the front. I was dressed in my ...Read more

A memory of Slough in 1958 by Charles Jenkins

The opening on the left of the photo is the entrance to Padgate Cottage Homes. I first went in there in 1948 as a 6 year old and finally left in 1953 as a 12 year old. The events that happened in there over those years were to ...Read more

A memory of Padgate in 1953 by Rod Hearne

I was born in Laurel Avenue in 1936 and lived there until 1959. During the war we were bombed out of our house following an air raid during the night, when German bombers were trying to cut the main line between London and Edinburgh. ...Read more

A memory of Potters Bar in 1950 by Philip Field

I grew up in Parkgate when there were three pubs and three shops, I schooled at St Pauls Junior School, Headmaster was a very strict Mr Moore with Mr Teare, Ms Bowness I think, Miss Martin and Mrs Crossthwaite. Those were the days ...Read more

A memory of Frizington in 1955 by John Isaac Johnston

While my father was having his house built in Thornton Grove he rented rooms from Mrs Parry who lived at "Marden", a vast rambling Victorian pile at the end of Westfield Park, not far from the church. She had a gardner ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1954 by John Price

My family moved to Magham Down in December 1953, when I was nearly 5.   The Red Lion was run by the Mounsey family.  The shop and post office was run by Joyce Russell.  In the shop were sweets in large glass ...Read more

A memory of Magham Down in 1955 by Barbara Margaret Fletcher

I am Reg Bright, born in Roman St, Seaforth. Moved to Thornton around 1951,courted Sheila King, Muspratt Rd, Seaforth 1953 ish, married her 1958. We now live in Bardsey near Wetherby - moved here in 1967 for the company Chadburns ...Read more

A memory of Seaforth in 1953 by Sheila/Reg Bright

I too grew up on the Peartree Estate and have memories of all that Christine remembers. I saw my very first pig at a small farm at the rear of Uplands Green, I think the farmers name was Mr. Duval. I too attended to St Joseph's school ...Read more

A memory of Rugeley in 1954 by Miriam Lawrence