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At this time I was a resident at a K.C.C. children's home at Hadlow near Tonbridge Kent. During the summer holidays a friend - Paul Thornton - and I though it would be a good idea to visit London, with very little resources ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's by briang7jwx

QUEEN ELIZABETH GRAMMAR AND DARLINGTON IN THE 40’s and 50’s I was born and lived for 18 years in Pensbury Street. Then Hargreave terrace. And grateful for the 1944 Education Act. Still. ...Read more

A memory of Darlington by Robin Matthews

He was only a few weeks old when he came to us, my mother had got to know about him and thought he was just the thing I needed to cheer me up. I was fourteen years of age and had not long moved home; my parents had decided to ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear

I came to live in Tottington full time in 1959 to attend Laurel Street school. We used to live in Beryl Avenues close to St Johns football and cricket field where we played endless games of football. We used to go to Island Lodge ...Read more

A memory of Tottington by risingsun456

St. Andrews Church figured quite prominently in my early teens as it was my parish Church. Although not a religous person, I had to go the Church at least once a month as I belonged to 6th Uxbridge Scouts who were a Church Group, and ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Bill Crowther

i was 5 wen we came back from germany and were put into the nissan huts used during the war by royal artillery the guns were still there and me and my sister jenny used to play on them and turn the wheel and make them turn we left there and moved to ...Read more

A memory of Barking

My grandmother violet ann priestland was in the micklover mental asylum for many years my sister and I never knew anything about her as my mum never saw since she was small we tried to find out about her but sadly found out she died in ...Read more

A memory of Mickleover by pkneafsey

This August 2014, on my way back from Whitby, I took a detour and called at Reighton Gap. The last time I was there was in the late 1950s / early 60's when we stayed at the bungalow my grandmother owned on Boat Cliff Road. I seem to ...Read more

A memory of Reighton by akaye73

I remember walking from Fir Tree Gardens on Shrublands Estate to Millers Pond with our jam jars and fishing nets , we also had a youth Club on the Estate I worked Saturdays in the Hairdressers in the parade of shops it was called Jan Terase, ...Read more

A memory of Shirley

I was sent to the school for stealing sweet coupons and was in Red house number 22 a number which seems to have followed me throughout my life ,I am now 83 years old but can still remember lots about the school J R Alexander was the ...Read more

A memory of Mobberley by charlesreagan80