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So many years ago but I can remember everything like it was yesterday. Mrs Truman's cafe near the church, just a shed really, the sweet shops, hairdressers, bike shop, cafe, pie and mash shop, my mum ran that pawn ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1960 by Dawn Shiston(Liddall)

Valence Park swimming pool I remember always being cold. It cost a couple pennies in old money, cup of oxo and a thick biscuit, and the old changing sheds by the pool, 2 foot gap top and bottom of door, freezing, haha. The noise in ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1960 by Brian Cole

when i was a child i attended hunters bar school in sheffield, i lived on chelsea road at bryncliffe. i cant remember the park at the bottom of the road from the school, but i remember going there every thursday, my aunt ...Read more

A memory of Sheffield in 1961 by Jane Rothwell Meehan

I was born in Stroud Green in 1950, and lived in the same house in Oakfield Rd N4 for 28 years before moving up and over the hill to Inderwick where I still live. I remember going with mum to pay the rent at Hornsey Town Hall, and seeing ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1960 by Alan Last Name

During the early 1960s my Aunt Bella and Uncle Alf lived down Ridway lane in a bungerlow called Fernleigh. It was detached, I suspect that it was part of field as the property had a five bar farm gate. Looking out of the ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1960 by Doreen Stockton

i well remember ,as a 12 year old lad the woods and football pitch on friar park estate wednesbury.i came home one saturday afternoon to find our back garden full of football players from both sides drinking tea. it turned out that ...Read more

A memory of Wednesbury in 1962 by Paul Love

Growing up in South Harrow was much different than today;  I do go back from time to time.  Welldon Park was on the Wyenhoe site, although there was always talk of the infant school being built on the allotments. I ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1960 by Doreen Stockton

i have some wonderful memories of visiting my grandma in the early 1960's in Ecclesfield, and later moving there to live in 1967. my dad's mum and dad lived in Ecclesfield and every Sunday we would go for a walk around the church area ...Read more

A memory of Ecclesfield in 1960 by Elaine Platts

My husband and I had many a happy day fishing in Merry Lane. Well, he fished and I read a book! We stayed in a caravan in the field at the last farm down the end of Merry Lane. One holiday we arrived early and parked our caravan ...Read more

A memory of Bason Bridge in 1963 by Sue Bowles

We lived from 1963 - 1972 in Wickford, all of us 3 children going to Wickford Junior school up Market Road. I can recall a man who used to paint lead soldiers from his house near the school. From 11 years of age I ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1967 by First Name Last Name