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My friends and I have just returned from a trip down memory lane. We all grew up in Acton and remember Tony's ice cream parlour. We trawled the streets but alas in vain. I have fond memories of my nan taking me there every Saturday for a ...Read more

A memory of Acton in 1965 by Carole Shipp

I was in the hospital for two & a half years. I was in a plaster case with straps all the way from top to bottom. I was on my back through the night & in the mornings the nurses would turn me so I could see the other children. I ...Read more

A memory of Alton in 1953 by Sheila Guilfoyle

I spent my school summer holidays in Millbrook from the mid 50's to the mid 60's - and every one was wonderful. I stayed with my grandparents, Mr and Mrs Ede, at 85 West Street, Millbrook. The house is long gone albeit the address ...Read more

A memory of Millbrook in 1956 by Roger Mutch

I am writing on behalf of Frederick Beck, aged 87, whose mother was Mary Kernick (nee ??) whose family lived in 262 Johnson Street, Wingate. It was a family of seven children. Names recalled are(oldest to youngest) Ben, Isabella, ...Read more

A memory of Wingate in 1920 by Brenda Gower

Born in 1947 before the NHS mum was transported to Hitchen to have me (hospitals full in London or too expensive?). I lived in half of a two-up two-down. We had the downstairs. My younger twin sisters and I shared a bed whilst mum & ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by brendactucker

I worked as a labourer at Gibbs Mew Brewery between November 1967 and April '68. It was a stop-gap job as I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life at the time. The work was boring and the days dragged but it was a job and I was ...Read more

A memory of Salisbury by al.birkett

From 1944 to 1947, aged four to seven, I had tuberculosis and was a patient at Lord Mayor Treloar's Hospital in Alton, during which time I spent six months at the convalescent hospital in Sandy Point. ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by margaretandchris

We moved to Ealing when I was 5 and at 11 I went to NHEHS and we bought the school uniform at Abernethies on the corner of Uxbridge Rd. I loved that area. Next to the taxi rank there was a Polish deli...oh the baked sultana cheesecake. ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by liznorman1971

I lived in The Vale flats from 1953. First in Beech Avenue and then Larch Avenue. I first went to East Acton school before John Perryn and finally Bromyard Avenue, which was later renamed Faraday School just before I left in 1966. I ...Read more

A memory of Acton by lesliehamilton61

Hi, I lived in Mill Hill Road Acton for 8 years as a child in the 1950’s and remember all the shops in the High Street, all except one, the department store/ haberdashery shop on the corner of Market Place and the High Street. They ...Read more

A memory of Acton by alfie.small