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I WAS BORN IN 1959 I LIVED AT NO 1 BURTON ROAD HEATH TOWN WITH MY 5 SISTERS AND 2 BROTHERS, MY FATHER WORKED AT GKN OFF THE BILSTON RD AND MY MOTHER ALSO WORKED THERE, JUST UP THE ROAD WAS FOSTERS SWEET SHOP WHICH I REMEMBER VERY ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town in 1959 by Leonard Vaughan

My father Basil Leader was manager of the Co-op Funeral service which used to be the site of the Angel Inn and we lived in a maisonette above the premises. At the back were two branches of the river Colne - a fast ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1954 by Denise Mangles

I too remember the GWR railway line to West Drayton that passed by the top of our Road. There was an old metal railway footbridge that conected Whtehall Road to Manor Way which as a 4 year old I used to stand on with my friends ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Bill Crowther

I was born in Purton, maiden name Giles. We lived at no.13 Blacklands, Pavenhill. My father was Arthur William Giles and he was Master Butcher at 9 High Street. Directly opposite to the Angel Hotel. I come from a family of 6 , my ...Read more

A memory of Purton in 1948 by Linda Tyldesley

I think this date is about right. I started St, Luke's when I was six. It was on the corner of Mode Wheel Road and Eccles New Road. It was a great little school. My first teacher was Mrs Goldstraw, There was Mr Jones in the ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1951 by Hazel Bolger

Being born in Boundary Road, listening to the yells from West ham on a Saturday, the old Co op butchers and grocery shop, Brampton school/ park, the bakers, the milkman with a horse, playing in the street, calling car ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1945

I moved from Wandsworth to Orchard Ave in Hackbridge in about 1979/80 (my parents still live there). It was a bit strange for me moving from a high-rise flat to a house with a garden. Behind the house was the 'Rec' and mullards factory ...Read more

A memory of Hackbridge in 1980 by Wayne Foster

As a school-boy I had a job working for W.H.Smith at Barking Station. I started when I was twelve on a paper round, but after a short while the shop manager, Albert Hedges, decided I could work one of the platform ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1960 by Joss Ollett

I was born in 1972 and grew up in Dartford, not leaving until i went to uni in 1990. It was never the most picturesque of towns but none-the-less a great place to grow up and easy to get everywhere. The schools ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by Sarah Lyman

The personal views of Resolven expressed in these pages reflect my own fond memories of Resolven, the Vale of Neath and its people. In 1953 I returned to the valley as a teenager, little did I know it was to become my home. I worked ...Read more

A memory of Resolven by Barry S Britzman