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Reading some memories, I thought I would do, as spent a lot of my teenage years in the Elm Park area. I was one of the first pupils at the newly opened Abbs Cross Technical school in Abbs Cross Lane after passing my 11+ . Sadly I was not a ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by Derek Court

Back in my very early days as a rep for a greeting card company called Rust Craft one of my North London accounts was Universal Stationers in Harrow. My store contact was the redoubtable greeting card department manageress, Mrs May Fernyhough! Happy days!

A memory of Harrow

Does anyone remember Bamatres Cycle Shop? It was on the right, literally just before you went over the bridge to Harrow and Wealdstone station? My brother worked there in the early fifties prior to being conscripted into ...Read more

A memory of Wealdstone by Richard Osler

I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The day ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by shea.carol

I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Philip Yorke Edgell

When I was a child, my parents got divorced before I reached the age of four, and I didn't meet my Father until several years later. Together with my Mother and my younger brother, we lived with my maternal ...Read more

A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by Dennis Ford

I was born in 1949 and lived 96 Reading Road Northolt Park. Spent many years in the area around South Narrow shops, Saturday morning flicks and at the station collecting bus and train numbers. My local station being Northolt ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow by Malcolm Harrison

Before the Harrow Arts Centre moved to its new swanky premises in Hatch End, it occupied a collection of what appeared to be old school canteen buildings just opposite the Alma pub. There is little ...Read more

A memory of Wealdstone in 1978 by John Howard Norfolk

I was born in Ireby in 1955. I had two sisters and a brother, Linda Val and Paul. My mum was born in Ireby and her dad John Coates (my grandad) lived around the corner in the cottages in the middle of Ireby. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Ireby in 1966 by Sylvia Hutton Nee Newby

I was delighted to find these lovely photos of the Warlingham area, but surprised that, so far, there is no reference to the Warlingham Park hospital, the staff and patients of which ...Read more

A memory of Warlingham in 1971