Search Results

I first visited whitstable with my parents when I was 8 in 1952 we came for a weeks holiday and stayed in a bed and breakfast in castle road whitstable. My parents were so impressed with ...Read more

A memory of Whitstable in 1968 by Victoria Mason

when I was around five years old my family moved into the ground floor of a Victorian house in Mayo Road Willesden, This was around 1968. Mr & Mrs Cooper had the top of the house and at that time they seemed very old to me, I ...Read more

A memory of Willesden in 1968 by Kevin Sherry

Does anyone remember the arcade just past the Savoy cinema after Vine Street. It had a cafe in the centre, a model shop, pet shop, wool shop and music shop. Just opposite was the old National Provincial Bank; renamed when the ...Read more

A memory of Hillingdon in 1960 by Tony Rose

Hi, I can see that Janet Lee has posted some info, I am wondering if you are the older sister of Patricia Lee or perhaps another relative. Their family emigrated to Australia on the Canberra some time in the early 1960s. I was also a ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by Debra Richards

It was Dec 1965, and my sister Ellen Blackham and I sailed to England  from Perth, Western Australia, to spend time with my sister Doris Whitby. Doris and her husband Roy had purchased The Old Rectory in the late 1950s. It ...Read more

A memory of Asfordby in 1965 by Lyn Praed

This date is approximate. As children my brother John and I attended St Mary's on Town Walls and after school we would make our way towards Barker Street to catch the bus to Springfield, we would spin around the revolving doors at ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1961 by Janet Highfield

In 1961 I got my first job after leaving school at S & R Smiths Garage on the Great South West Road. The owners were brothers Sydney and Raymond Smith. We called them Mr Ray and Mr Sid. I started in the stores department. It was a ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1961 by Barry Hawgood

My friend and I would go on numerous bike rides around Formby, Southport and Crossby. We came from Bootle and as we were only 12 years old these bike rides seemed to be a trip into another world. I moved to Australia later ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1963 by Joe Fallon

My mother remarried in 1962 to a lovely man who lived in Ashley Avenue, Cheriton. With my husband and our two children we always used to visit and once a week I went to visit on my own. We had some lovely times there, my ...Read more

A memory of Cheriton in 1962 by Julia Deane

I had the most delightful childhood during the 1950s and 60s in Bethel, Bodorgan. We were not at all a well-to-do family, but the folks living in the neighbourhood were a real treasure and that is what ...Read more

A memory of Bodorgan in 1960 by Philip Mawson