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From 1959 to 1973 I lived at Tooting Junction. '59-69 in Glasford Street opposite the police station, then when I got married in 1969 I moved one whole road away in Renmuir Street! Many local people may remember our big, black ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1963 by Jackie Rice

I remember the Queen's visit to Rutland in this year. I remember all the children from the local schools forming the shape of a horseshoe in a field/park? and the Queen being driven around the horseshoe waving to us all.

A memory of Oakham in 1967 by Janet Saw

This is indeed Hamsey Green. The view is from the Good Companions car park. The two shops with awnings to the right of the image no longer exist, as the Coop built a shop there. One used to be a bike shop (left) and the ...Read more

A memory of Warlingham in 1962 by Peter Miller

In the distance you can see Ye Olde Greene Manne pub on Batchworth Heath. My Dad and I sat in the pub garden and drank beer one hot summer's day in 1965 and my mum took a photo of us together which I ...Read more

A memory of Batchworth Heath in 1965 by John Howard Norfolk

The Tower also had a bowling alley and the restaurant was a Chinese.  As a teenager I worked up enough courage to ask a girl for my first dance at the Tower's ballroom.  We used to park our motorbikes outside the "Bluebird Cafe" ...Read more

A memory of Lee in 1965 by Gordon Brown

I lived in Rothwell from the age of 5 leaving to come to Australia in 1969 at the age of 16.  I think regularly now of how the village would have changed so much since I left.  I remember being a bridesmaid ...Read more

A memory of Rothwell in 1969 by Marie Marsland

I grew up in Park Hill Court, Beeches Road in the sixties and seventies; my father was the caretaker. He used to be in charge of the bonfire on firework night, up on one of the drying grounds. The girls stood one side and the boys stood ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1969 by Dawn Sampson

I was born in 1951, so belong to the generation of Saturday morning cinema goers in Wallsend who just couldn't wait for Saturdays. The choice was big in the late 1950's. The Gaumont (corner of Park Road and High Street East). The Royal ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1960 by Michael Innes

The large house to the left of this photograph is my chidlhood home, Brynderwen. It is at the bottom of Field Street , opposite the Con Club, next to the Surgery. My father was one of the local Doctors who ...Read more

A memory of Pen-y-graig in 1961 by Jan Thomas

I can remember watching in awe as the cattle was walked to the market (now a car park) through the High and West Street..pigs, sheep, cows, chickens etc and standing up on the temporary fencing reaching over to ...Read more

A memory of Fareham in 1962 by Jean Oxtoby (Wigmore)