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My family lived on Mountview Road N8, from 1959 until 1971. We were blessed with a ground floor flat with cellar, in an old Victorian House at ,No. 35. We were opposite the reservoir, so had a ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End by kb

Hi All - born during the war in Oxford 1944 at Chippinghurst Manor - requisioned as a maternity home - raised in the 50s 60s & 70s at 50 Bolingbroke Grove SW11 and went to Belleville JBs school and Sir Walter St Johns ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by johnnybelton

I remember going to the shops in Hounslow High street with my mum and dad. The ABC cafe which had rows of perspex boxes with different cakes and sandwiches in each one. MacFisheries, and a department store which I think was called ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow

I was 2½ when my parents Sam and Gwen Barrow moved from Greenwich with myself and my sister (6months) into No1 Tiverton Grove. It was on the coner with Bedale Road and had been my Nan's house. I used to ride my trike ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by eejayb

I was born in Luton at the St Marys Grove Road Maternity home in 1959. My parents had moved to Luton in 1949 following my paternal grandmother who had been bombed out of the East End. We lived on Humberstone Road, me and my ...Read more

A memory of Luton

I would like any information about 20, Catherine Grove Greenwich 1911 as my mother lived there from when she was born. Pat McCann

A memory of Greenwich by Patricia Mccann

I was born in Grove Avenue in 1934. Was not evacuated in the war .attended St Marys Church as a choir boy, went to St Marys. Infant school , then on to Orleans. Sec Leaving in 1949., after winning the Twickenham Schools Cricket ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham by aataylor34

I remember al the names mentioned I was born in the house in fir grove We were the maxwells Wullie Margaret. Richard. And me John,and remember the hoggans well, biff was a character great with the kids , Wattie was a star,, the mckees ...Read more

A memory of Westquarter by jbigjock

About 1949/50 I was 10.The ponds had dried up because there was no water coming from the spring in the corner where the Grove entrance met the High Street. There used to be a set of steps that went down into the pond at that point.If my ...Read more

A memory of Carshalton by Tony Arkell

My name is Peter West and I started my life and spent the first 7 important years at the Oak. My dad was the landlord and and his father before him up until 1962 when he retired and I was whisked away in tears to go to our ...Read more

A memory of Surbiton by peter.west127