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I still live in Barnehurst having moved back in 1947. The picture of Barnehurst Road, although the scenery hasn't changed much the shops have. The corner shop on the right was United Dairies and there was a butchers ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst in 1950 by Keith Jackson

Lived on Windsor Rd...  Ashton Heath...  68 to 81 when I first got married. Good times in the Eagle and Child .. Hingemakers .. Commercial .. pubs  etc. Are they still there? Bill Harrison, Canada.

A memory of Ashton-in-Makerfield by Bill Harrison

I am entering these memories on behalf of my mother in law - Patricia Ross (nee Bolter) Running to meet Dad, just a young man, in uniform for the first time coming home to show us in ...Read more

A memory of Hammersmith in 1940 by Jane Ross

As a teenager living in the Old Kent Road back in the early 1960s, Windsor was surprisingly accessible to me. I spent most summer Saturdays fishing the lock cut at Romney Island. A number 53 bus would take me to ...Read more

A memory of Windsor by Derek White

I was staying with my grandmother who lived in Lynch Close and she sent me for a loaf of bread (straight out of the oven) from Ponds Bakery in Windsor Street. As I came out of the shop, the air raid siren went off (very loud) which ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1940 by Lorna Jennings

I remember Burtons, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, and other great groups. Always seemed to be on a Friday. At the interval we came out, and in Windsor Street there was a Fish and Chip shop where we had chips. We took them into a ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1963 by Nick Beard

I have fond memories of Hounslow, I was born and lived on the Bath Road, near the Windsor castle pub, many a time I used to stand outside the pub waiting for my parents, with a bottle of coke and a packet of crisps. I went to Wellington ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1965 by Ms Pauline Smith

My parents were friends with Jimmy and Blanche Greer,the owners of The Chocolate Box sweet shop, in Emsworth in the 50's. We lived in Windsor but we used to meet up with Jimmy and Blanche and their daughter Margeret at Lazalea Holiday Camp in Nutbourne every summer.

A memory of Emsworth by geoffreyhood

....I was born here in August 1947. The only thing I've known about it was its name, except I thought the word ' Royal' was in there somewhere! Today I received a copy of my Birth Certificate in post from the registry ...Read more

A memory of Taplow by sambs47

I was born in the flats in Dudley road in 1947 my mum [joyce] always told me extremely hot summer and freezing cold winter used to play gasworks a lot my grandparents lived at the end of stoney lane inside the gates north ...Read more

A memory of Southall by michael.barton3