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Holyport Road, Fulham
I was born in 1961 in Charing Cross Hospital & spent my first 25 years living in Fulham - firstly in Holyport Road until I was about 17, then New Kings Road for a few years and then Hestercombe Avenue for another few years until I ...Read more
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My School Days.
The starting point for me was failing the Eleven Plus. This puts most children in a difficult position. Which school will accept them for their onward education? Answer:- apply to Fullbrook Secondary School in Newhaw where a grammar ...Read more
A memory of New Haw by
Fond Memories From The Sixties
The river used our playground then before the river ingrebourne was blocked off from the tidal Thames to alleviate flooding in Rainham. Further down river were the old ww2 concrete barges that we used to clamber over while ...Read more
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St Andrew's Church, Chelmondiston
My mother, Mary Rands, was christened in this church in 1929. Her Grandparents, Herbert and Mary Ann Rands, lived in a cottage at the back of the church called 'Myrtle' They passed away before the second world war, ...Read more
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Ambassador Cinema
Used to go to Saturday morning pictures. My dad, Jimmy Williams, was a projectionist there, and both my mum and my nan worked there; they had the torch to show you to your seat. Films like Zorro and Old Mother Riley were on. Also ...Read more
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Top Lock Southall
Quaker Oats had a spur going into their factory just past top lock on the Grand Union Canal. I used to watch the barges being unloaded with a huge vacumn pipe used by a man standing on the barge. Due to the fact a lot of wheat ...Read more
A memory of Southall in 1959 by
My Grandads Barge
I in the canal photo that big barge was my grandads he used to deliver coal up and down the canal he was called Hubbert Barrass can anyone help me find more photos of this and also name of his barge please
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Vague Memories Of Waterlooville
I was born at the Bransbury Nursing Home, Jubilee Road, Waterlooville, during the war in December 1943. I lived with my grandmother Eva Hill (nee Redman) and my mother, Joyce Hill (nee Lewis) at 56 Hambledon Road ...Read more
A memory of Waterlooville by
Gainsborough
The Gainsborough today is not the Gainsborough of my youth. It was a busy market town with a very busy market on Tuesdays and Saturdays. A lot of farmers came into town on a Tuesday to take care of their business, a quick pint and ...Read more
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Growing Up
I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more
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