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I lived in Bredbury from 1958 to 1979 and went to Barrack hill school. then went on to High field we used walk pass the slater house on bents lane. Mum and dad always went in to the club next door as my dad was one of the singers there.

A memory of Bredbury in 1969 by Karen Whittaker

In 1953 I attended, as a boarder, the 'St Mary of the Angels Choir School' in Addlestone. You walked from the station, turned right up the High St and then left up a hill(?). The ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by peter.beschorner

My sister and I used to spend every summer in Leigh, so much so that we even attended the School. I think it helped that our granny was Mrs Faulkner (Dorothy)the Infant school teacher. Grampy was Sandy, our mum Jean was born and brought ...Read more

A memory of Leigh by anne_54

I came to Southminster to join the Staff (there were actually just 2 teachers and a headmistress) at the new infants school in 1963. It was a long warm autumn and my husband and I being newly married lived in a ...Read more

A memory of Southminster in 1963 by Patricia Hardy

This view is of Salt Hill Park Pavilion. I remember that there was a tennis club housed there and the tennis courts were in front. In this photo it appears as a horizontal line of shrubs, but the courts were between the shrubs ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Anthony Rees

I went to all three of these schools and left st.james about 1952.I read the comment from Hilary Leopold and remember her,we were in the same class at one time.I remember Irene Butler,Maureen Sexton Joan Whte and ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1950 by Teresa Keech

Lived at 10 Church Place from 1948 to 1952 before emmigrating to Canada.Attended Freuchie Primary School. Head Master was Mr.Doig,had a daughter called Christine,her best girlfriend, Elizabeth Pratt. School chum lived across the ...Read more

A memory of Freuchie in 1950 by Joe Gwiazda

I don't suppose there's anyone alive today who remembers this event but they would have to be about 143 years old! But as a shot in the dark, I wonder if anyone who remembers old Fairs and ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1880 by J Lawrence Prior

I was evacuated to Torrington in 1940 during the Blitz. My two elder siblings, brother and sister, went to a farm somewhere in Devon. My mother, her new baby (my younger brother) and I went to Torrington. Mum and ...Read more

A memory of Taddiport in 1940 by Tom Ware

My family moved from Goodmayes to South Woodford in 1927 and my first memory was of my father waving welcome to 31 Lansdowne Road as we arrived in a Daimler hired car! At Churchfields School, headmaster Mr Walford, we ...Read more

A memory of South Woodford in 1930 by Ralph Smith