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My Aunt Freda used to run the show boat and when we went to Ponty to visit my dad, Spank Mattocks, I spent a lot of time in there. We live down south, a lot of my family lived up Chequerfield Drive and some still do. My cousin ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract by Deborah Ayres

All of our family lived around the Broadway area in the 50`s. My dad had 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Sister's married names were Eaton & Calcot. My uncle, Jim Calcot, was the manager of the Red Hall cinema. We used to kid people we ...Read more

A memory of Fulham in 1958 by David Malster

There used to be a museum in the park with a huge stuffed tiger, the first time I ever saw it I nearly jumped out of my skin with fright. What a great park before they removed the boundary wall. I used to go stickleback ...Read more

A memory of St Helens by John Hayes

I used to live in Grove Place which of course is no longer there. I remember Mrs Jones fish and chip shop a couple of doors from me where you could get a bag of crackling (yum). Then round the corner in Western Road was ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Helen Jules

I lived at 27 Victoria Rd, Knaphill and went to the school at Star Hill then the school down the lane at St Johns, past the barracks and cookhouse. When the soldiers were demobbed we used to be given sweets, chocolate and fags which we ...Read more

A memory of Knaphill in 1952 by Daniel Phelan

l was born in 1942 & lived in 16 Temple Street, we lived just around the corner to the swimming pool. We spent hours there as kids, Mr Maddocks was in charge of the pool & loved to teach the kids how to swim. l can just see this ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1947 by Sandra Stone Nee Evans

I can remember as a teenager in the late 1970s early 1980s walking home in the dark down Crouch Oak Road and being terrified of walking past the gates to the home and the Church that was just inside the gates. Even ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1979 by Helen Drawwater

As a very young child, probably aged about 3 or 4, my family rented one of the cottages close to the cliff side at Sea View Crescent on two consecutive years. I remember the drive down Ostend Road, where lots of the bungalows ...Read more

A memory of Walcott in 1967 by Tracey Whitcher

In 1960-63 I lived in Stanley Grove off School Rd which is where they now have the Arndale. We moved into a pre-fab in Ashbourne Crescent at Sale Moor when they had plans for the Arndale. My first job was at Boots Chemist ...Read more

A memory of Sale in 1964 by Janet Waller

I remember with great affection Horniman Park, adjacent to the museum. I was born in 1945 & used to travel on the 185 bus from Stanstead Rd to Hornimans when I was young. My favourite part of the park was the little garden with ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hill by Patricia Bunce