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Born 1950, moved to Barker Road, Bredbury, 1954. Apparently we were one of the first families to inhabit the estate. Attended Barrack Hill. Remember Browns, the two old ladies in the sweet shop next ...Read more

A memory of Woodley in 1961 by Peter Francis

I lived in 71 Hailsham Road off of Straight Road till we sadly moved in the April of 1971. I always remember; the Grammar School, at the back of Appleby Drive we used to have Saturday fetes with the small steam train ride, ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1967 by Mark Tate

I attended the 'boards' training school based at Harold Hill, along with 79 other apprentices during 1960/61... I shared lodgings at Collier Row for the first year of the apprentice training ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1960 by Colin Crane

What I am most interested in writing about is how Highgate Village has changed so much since my school days, growing up there in the 1960s. Today most of the shops are coffee shops, estate ...Read more

A memory of Highgate in 1965 by Robert Molesworth

July early 60's you could not move on the beach for holidaymakers, all the deck chairs would be sold out and Bill & Pat Ramsay would be playing music over the speakers. The Spartan club - weight lifters would be there - Dave ...Read more

A memory of Aberdeen in 1960

Was the Wimpey Bar in Bellegrove Road to the Bexleyheath, or Shooters Hill side of the Twisted Wheel Coffee Bar which was at number 43?

A memory of Welling in 1963 by Brian Chanter

My late father, Bill Clements, always took me shopping on a Saturday morning and after hair cuts we would end up a Woollies for sweets and a matchbox toy before catching a bus home to webheath from the old bus station just down to the left of Woolworths.

A memory of Redditch in 1961 by Martin Clements

Where the pushbike is, The Toast Rack cafe was, a favourite place for us 'rockers' to meet for coffee and a smoke (back in the days when we all did). This was the meeting place on a Sunday morning to ride to Box Hill and ...Read more

A memory of Sutton in 1961 by Peter Leonard Norcott

I lived in Whitchurch Road, number 85. I was Pat Smith then, mum was Connie, and dad Ron, was there from about 1960 until 1976. I went to Dycourts School and had Mr Smith as one of my teachers - he was brilliant! I remember he read The ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1963 by Pat Stewart

My name is Elaine Connors nee Pennington I was born in 1948 and I attended Garndiffaith Primary and Junior school and later Abersychan. I lived at Hillcrest, my aunty lived in one of the prefabs with her garden overlooking ...Read more

A memory of Garndiffaith in 1960 by Susan Elaine Connors