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I lived at number 59 The Crescent for 10 years from when I was born until 1970 when we moved due to the road being demolished for the new estate that is there today. Our family name was Dobson and there was my Mum Joyce, Dad ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1970 by Susan Holt

It was the long hot summer and I'd been posted to HMS Inskip. We moved into married quarters at 6c Nelson Gardens, don't know if it's still there? We loved it there one of our better postings, we'd love to visit again, we always talk about ...Read more

A memory of Inskip in 1976 by Arthur Fraser

The Barley Mow, we went up there for my sister's hen night, and ended up at the caravan park down Green Lane. I have just visited it, well last year actually, and didn't realize it was such a lovely park, I ...Read more

A memory of West Horsley in 1970 by Loraine Roles

My memories of my childhood in Belvedere are so precious. I was born in 1968, and my parents bought a house together with my paternal grandparents in Nuxley Road, number 86. The house is a big Victorian derached ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere in 1976 by Donna Goudie

It's all gone now, there are now private houses and a park where the school stood. What a school it was. When I was there I knew all the teachers there. What good times I had there. Boo hoo, it's all gone.

A memory of Whittington in 1978 by Robert Nash

We lived on the old East Hill Estate-Falmouth House, things I remember are my mother shopping on East Hill, there was a greengrocer there which I can't remember the name of, there was Whelans the butchers, the Junction was not far ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1970 by Eugene Garvey

I lived on Cedar Road, my parents having bought a house (in which my mother still lives) on the new estate in 1964. I attended Wood Street Infant School from 1968 to 1971, Hill Top ...Read more

A memory of Earl Shilton in 1970 by Stephen Geary

I think it was 1976 when our dad took us to Holmfirth. He loved watching 'Last of the Summer Wine' which was filmed there. As we were children we sat in the back and watched the hills coming closer and closer. Dad drove careful up the ...Read more

A memory of Holmfirth in 1976 by Jean Smith

I was a pupil at Cranborne First School at the time of Ms Rogers and lived across the carpark at 9 Water Street. I remember ending up with prizes for cooking and mini garden and doing the show at the old village hall singing '1, 2, 3,4,5, ...Read more

A memory of Cranborne in 1974 by Adam Cooper

I spent many happy days in Willington with my grandparents Billy and Hilda Davison who lived in Brown Avenue. I can remember my grandad taking me to the park on the estate and going on summer trips with the working mens club. I was ...Read more

A memory of Willington in 1972 by Susan Scott