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This is an unusual view of St Anselm's as I don't recall ever standing on the churchyard flowerbeds! My own routine was arriving in the last few seconds before the vicar and choir processed into church for 9.30 Parish Communion ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1965 by John Howard Norfolk

During the 1960's as a youth, I walked my two Great Dane dogs at Garth Park, Trealaw almost every day. The park-keeper in the 60's was called "Jock" a Scotsman with a very broad accent. I also played football every Saturday morning at ...Read more

A memory of Trealaw in 1965 by Robert Oflaherty

Does anybody remember the Swoffer family? I lived at 43A Manor Road, my Gran and Aunt's and Uncle's lived at 81b Manor Road. I went to Elmwood School, Hackbridge, (Gone!) and later worked at Hackbridge Cables. The Grange was wonderful, Beddington Park - so BIG! All seems about 150 years ago now.

A memory of Wallington in 1960 by Terry Swoffer

The park was the place to be on Sunday afternoons, groups of teenagers lying on the grass listening to the top 20 on their state of the art flip top Ekco Radios that contained batteries the size of 6 iPhones, it always seemed to be ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1960 by Michael Yoxall

My brother and I used to go around this caravan site several times during our annual 6 week school summer holiday. We would sell plastic bags of fresh field mushrooms that we had picked at nearby solva. we would sell a 1 pound bag ...Read more

A memory of Newgale in 1961 by Anthony Wyatt

I went to live in Findern in 1967,my first home after getting married in Crewe in Cheshire. My then husband and I had got jobs at Rolls Royce in Derby. I have very fond memories of the village then. We lived in a newish three ...Read more

A memory of Findern in 1967 by Cynthia Oldham

I too have memories of Castleton. When I was 16 (in 1963) my family moved to Milnrow Road in Rochdale, and so I was only about 3 or 4 miles from where my cousins the Thompson family (Derek, Joyce and Geoff) lived ...Read more

A memory of Castleton in 1964 by Norman Foulds

I attended Elmwood from 1969 - 1971 I moved from south London to Wallington in 69 and can remember walking through the park from Wallington to Hackbridge some of the names have come back to be after looking at some of the posts on ...Read more

A memory of Hackbridge in 1969 by Tom Ellinor

I lived in 14 Halliwell Street near Ordsall Park. I remember when the horse pulling the ice cream cart kicked a car on Hartington Street which put a right dent in the wing. There was a right old curfuffle. Loved Salford and Ordsall, best years of my childhood.

A memory of Salford in 1966 by Alan Bleasby

We used to have French students stay with us and at the end of their visit there would be a banquet at the old Town Council Centre in Treaty Road. I have happy memories of the boating lake at Inwood Park. We lived at Hounslow ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1965 by Michael Daly