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I believe I was sent to Brentwood following a stay in Hither Green Fever Hospital with whooping cough. I seem to have been in a ward named Poplars 3. I have two very strong memories of that stay. I was 5 years old. First, I was encased ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood in 1930 by Beryl Padgham

I was born in 1946 and lived in Lamport Street, just off Warwick Street in Toxteth. We lived there until I was about 6 years of age. Because of town planning we had to move to Hawkstone Street but what I remember of Lamport ...Read more

A memory of Toxteth in 1950 by Richard Green

I went to Shaw House School in 1951 a section was then given over to boys as was predominately for Girls , I recently learned that Shaw was taken over as a School following a wartime bombing of a School close to Newbury Rail ...Read more

A memory of Newbury in 1951 by Percival Mills

'Best on the coast' was the slogan on Arthur's motor cycle side car AND IT WAS NO MEAN CLAIM. I remember Arthur well - actually remember him starting back following an absence during the war.

A memory of Gwespyr by Ken Davies

My family first moved to Great Sankey from Belfast NI in 1976 firstly renting No1 Orrell Close then moving across the road to Hawthorne Avenue where my parents still live. I have wonderful memories of Thornley's (Then ...Read more

A memory of Great Sankey in 1976 by Paul Burns

Have to say reading the entries of everyone’s memories is simply wonderful. Both my parents grew up in Mitcham, my father John Stockley who was Mitcham born and bred, married my mother Jean Nightingale in the church in Church Road back in ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1969 by Paul Nightingale

I used to be a frequent visitor to Chorley Hall as a young boy accompanying my mother and grandmother. The Hall and farm were tenanted by Joe Davis and he married Annie Bower who was my grandmother's sister-in-law and hence my ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1953 by Nigel Wylde

Wes Coulthard and me decided to go to the smoke to try our luck,this was early sixties. Wes had worked in London before for a building company called Higgs & Hill so we decided to give it a go as we had just been laid off. It was ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1964 by Jimmy Burrows

I first moved into Streethouse in 1953 when I married a local girl (Iris Elliott), there were no houses for rent or to buy and all newly weds had to live in lodgings, we lodged with Iris's parents. I watched Netheroyd ...Read more

A memory of Streethouse in 1953 by Roy Clayton

As I attended school at St. Egberts College on Ridgeway in North Chingford, we did on occasion get to go swimming at Larkswood Pool. Swimming in any pool was a treat for most of us as the only 'swimming' we usually did was at the ...Read more

A memory of South Harefield in 1945 by Denman Lalonde