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I spent many happy days fishing in the park lake, permit purchased from the town hall for 6 pence per year, old money, then the council in their wisdom decided to fill the pond in with all the dustbin refuse, and it ...Read more

A memory of Ashton-in-Makerfield in 1940 by Frank Walford

I have so many memories of Dagenham that I could write a book. I have already written one on this site entitled 'Shopping at the Heathway'. My earliest memory of Dagenham however was when I was about five years old. We lived in ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1940 by William Pullum

I lived at the top of Fishponds Road at no.27. It was a small council house enclave and our little bit of the road was shaped like a keyway, so it was called the key hole. At no, 25 lived the Davies, 23 the Taylors, 21 Cox, ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by David Bull Tainsh

I have mentioned in passing that Intake did not have the same panache as say Balby, Hexthorpe or Armthorpe in places of entertainment but it did provide some wide open spaces to play in. Over the Armthorpe Road ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1946 by Frank Mowforth

My name is Jean - maiden name being Hamy and I had a wonderful childhood living in Stanford Close. I have a brother and sister - Janet and Michael. I remember going to the pond - catching small fish and ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1965 by Jean Kelly

A great place for everybody from picnickers to people going fishing or just out for a walk. I used to go there quite often especially in the summer. The boats were good fun and even in winter, it was a good birdwatching area. Does ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone by Derick Bhupsingh

It was a long walk to Wanstead Park from where we lived as children.  We lived at  Stephens Road, Stratford West Ham. Weekends and school holidays Mum would pack a picnic for the six of us, usually jam sandwiches or cheese if Mum had ...Read more

A memory of Wanstead in 1955 by Joan Doble

A family member used to have his home in a railway carriage at Holt Fleet. It may be that various members of my family lived there at different times. If anyone remembers the carriage I would dearly love to hear from ...Read more

A memory of Holt Fleet by Michael Harnett

It was Dec 1965, and my sister Ellen Blackham and I sailed to England  from Perth, Western Australia, to spend time with my sister Doris Whitby. Doris and her husband Roy had purchased The Old Rectory in the late 1950s. It ...Read more

A memory of Asfordby in 1965 by Lyn Praed

I think that the photograph was taken in 1965 as the photo shows me and my brother David Jones fishing from the bottom of the garden of 4 Nursery Lane.  I was born in 1955 in Tamworth and we moved to Hopwas in April of 1961 when I ...Read more

A memory of Hopwas in 1965 by Ann Meade