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I came to live with my grandparents in Treasury View after my mother had died in a car accident where we lived, on the Isle of Wight. I had been to Ickham before as a baby, and in later years was told many times by neighbours of ...Read more

A memory of Ickham in 1964 by Deborah Sawyers

Gold Hill common has an upper flat grassy area and then a sloping area, which leads down into the town, which is covered with scrub, not the town of course. This photo is right on the edge of the upper part. In 1963, when I was a ...Read more

A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1963 by Donald Macdonald

My memory of childhood in Dagenham was looking at Alf Ramsey digging his garden. Of course we later found out this was his brother or twin brother. I was eight years old and lived in Weston Green. Us children would walk up a short road to ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1966 by Dawn Hawes

Please get in touch with me if you grew up on the St Marys Crescent Estate, especially if you remember my family. We lived in number 48 then no.4 then number 93 - I got married from there. There was eight children in my family all with ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1960 by Beryl Lucas(Bull)

This pond was known to local kids as The Newt Pond, as that's where we used to go 'newting', catching newts and putting them in jam jars and putting them back after seeing who had the biggest (newt!)... We used to hire ...Read more

A memory of Rhyl in 1965 by Nick Oldham

I spent the first 3 years of my life in a nissan hut situated on the common. In 1953 after the flood we moved to Twyford Avenue where my brother now lives having purchased the house. I was married in St Nicholas church and ...Read more

A memory of Great Wakering in 1960 by Maureen Farrell

My grandparents Jim and May Condon lived at 1 Glynn View, Blaenllechau. My father was in the Air Force so I didn't spend that much time in Blaen, but when I did I loved the place. Thirty eight years ago I moved to Australia to live, ...Read more

A memory of Blaenllechau in 1964 by Susan Bessell

Today in 2010, I am researching information for my daughter who will be 50 on October 2nd 2010. She was born in Holbrook Maternity Hospital. At the time of her birth my wife and I lived in Peet Street, off Uttoxeter ...Read more

A memory of Holbrook in 1960 by Brian Shaw

Looking at these photos brings it all back for me. My parents ran Ashtead Riding School, Ashtead Woods Road, for eight years until 1969 when we moved to Sussex. I still remember Nash's garage as seen in the Craddocks Parade 1961 ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead in 1961 by Nigel Parker

In the 1960s, I remember watching Dalmilling Primary being built from my Ganny's window, my first day there when I was about eight and meeting all the new pals, school sports that I was useless at, egg and spoon was torture and ...Read more

A memory of Ayr in 1960 by Linda Kiltie Stewart