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Xmas started Xmas eve. Everybody went to the pub at lunchtime and it was serious drinking. I worked in Turriff House on the Geat West Road and the pub was the Kings Arms by Brentford railway station. Around closing ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell by Nick Beard

If it is the same Harry hargreavs I remember I use to knock about with him and he worked at the slaughter house that was on the Corner just where the mancunan way starts now, thats how ne came to be in the butcher game. .I lived in pine street ...Read more

A memory of Salford by a.smith500

Like your other contributors I also spent my very early years in Dunstaffnage. Dad had spent the early part of the war from day one as a young Engineer Officer on North Atlantic convoys in the Merchant Navy. When you were lucky to ...Read more

A memory of Oban by john

Thank you for the fantastic memory's you've brought back to me. Very innocent days and great fun. I do remember a lot of the names mentioned especially Alan Dutton which who I met three years ago near to where I live. I ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by mikecachia

I LIVED IN CAMPDEN HOUSES, PEEL STREET, THOUGH THE FIFTIES AND WENT TO THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART IN BARNES. I LOVED SEEING THE PEOPLE ON THE TV AND RADIO WHO LIVED CLOSE BY BECAUSE THE STUDIOS WERE EASY TO GET ...Read more

A memory of Kensington by cindyandjohn

I went out with a young lady from here back in the 1960s. I'm still ashamed to say that I treated her very badly. So, Pru, if you ever see this, I'm really sorry.

A memory of Wheatley

After reading the other accounts of Chopwell I decided to add my own, I hope I have got the names and dates right as I am doing this from memory, apologies if I get some of it wrong. All my mother’s side of the family were from ...Read more

A memory of Chopwell by prippon

As a child in the mid sixties I remember that during the summer holidays my mother would take my sisters and myself for picnics occasionally in the walled garden that was at Langley Vale and also remember how we ...Read more

A memory of Langley Vale

I was born at 50 Milling Street in 1955. I had my Auntie and Uncle living a few doors down. I was one of 6 kids so there were 8 of us crammed into our upstairs flat. The toilet was outside and downstairs in the backyard, while the tin ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by sylviaswan87

Hi, I was born in 1946 at the South London Hospital for Women and lived for a while at 15 Etruria St. Battersea, it was near Dogs Home Bridge and Battersea Power Station, where my dad, Charlie Jones worked. Soon we moved ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by kenjones8