Search Results

I spent my youth living just around the corner form the Hall. Many happy memories playing in the surrounding woods and snow permitting sledging down the steep hill just in front of the photo. You had to pull up really sharp ...Read more

A memory of Middleton in 1968 by Ivan Walsh

How lovely to find some photographs of The Flying G, but I am surprised that there are no other comments when so many people went there. I went there twice, once in 1966 and again in 1967. The first time I was studying ...Read more

A memory of Ringwood in 1966 by Penelope Welch

St, Ives born and bred, my family had lived in a couple of houses upalong before moving to 22 The Digey ( the middle door ) sometime in 1967. I remember having my 6th birthday there.  At the time there was a credit squeeze on ...Read more

A memory of St Ives in 1967 by Carolyn Abbott

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 used to visit my great uncles & aunts in Sandwich as a child. They lived at The Butts in those days (long dead now though).  My grandmother would put me on the bus all alone at Upper Deal where we lived, (quite safe as the ...Read more

A memory of Sandwich in 1960 by Margaret Geoge

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

When I was 15 I left Bletchley Road Secondary Modern, and went to work at MOSSES, in Fenny Stratford, I thought it was great to earn £3. a week, I done a lot with that, I used to go to lots of 'dances' a week,  there was the PALACE at ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1963 by Margaret Hogg

I was born in Thornton Heath, in 1954. We moved to Sanderstead , I think in 1958. I attended Sanderstead Junior School and Ridgeway. I remember Croham Hurst, Purley and Fairfield Halls, my mother worked there. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1960 by Amanda Dean

Omg, I remember so many of you. I started at Love Lane in 1965 and left in 1970. I was friends with Susan Harvey, Carol Head, Jackie Kirk, Karen Harman, Barbara Cox, Lesley Davidson, Libby Campbell, June Tyler, Liz Knapp, ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1965 by Christine Brown

Strand on the Green was, and always will be an iconic location.  Remember the Beatles film Help was filmed there.  Summer evenings in the sixties watching dusk descend over the river with a nice drink (or several).  A location ...Read more

A memory of Chiswick in 1968 by Nick Beard