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The queue of people waiting to the left of the picture would have been waiting for the trolley bus which ran from the terminal at the bottom of the high street (on the opposite side from The Odeon and a bit further down). The post in ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1955 by Philip Cousins

Hi, my memory is from around 1953- 1956. My name is Edna Hardie (Williams) born 1941. I lived in Pant Street, had 3 sisters, Mary 1947, Pam 1944, Connie 1934. I remember the dug-out ( the youth club ) in my street. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Aberbargoed in 1955 by Edna Hardie

My parents married in this church in 1951, mum had been brought up in the village from birth by her parents (David and Gwen Bowen) and after marrying my dad, moved up to Sheffield. It was a quaint village from ...Read more

A memory of Ferryside in 1973 by Emma Bennett

My great uncle may be in this photo. I remember he told me that he and some of his pals walked from West Ham in the early hours of the morning and managed to get a spot on the Lambeth side of the bridge. They were just boys and came ...Read more

A memory of London in 1890 by Philip Cousins

I lived with my parents in a Drapers shop in Royal Hill. I became a junior shipmate of the Cutty Sark when it was brought to Greenwich. I played in Greenwich Park, visited the Maritime Musuem lots of times, played by the waters edge of ...Read more

A memory of Greenwich in 1951 by Jackie Payne

My grandparents lived in Falcon Grove, a few houses up from the Auction Room. At the end of the road on the curve with Este Road was Schoolings Bakery, I think. I would love to see an old photo of this, but alas I don't think there is one.

A memory of Battersea in 1969 by Paul Laucher

In 1920 the Hawkins family came to Canada. My grandfather was Edward Hawkins, known in the family as Ted. He had been the head gardener at the Whitmead estate. He and my grandmother Clarissa, had 5 children. Robert ...Read more

A memory of Tilford in 1910 by Roland Joselyn

This isn't really a memory, but a request. As I was looking through my Mom's belongings, I found this same postcard. My Mom's name was Vera Snell and she was born on August 5, 1921. Sadly, she passed ...Read more

A memory of Bocking by Jacqueline Speed

I was born at Hope Hospital in March 1947 and lived in Ducie Place off Liverpool St, close to the Oldfield Rd end. I went to Hope Street school till I was 10, and then my mum sent me to West Liverpool Street ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1962 by Jimmy Wolstenholme

I was born in a bungalow to the left of this photo; it was my nan and grandad's. In fact the back part of the car that can be seen on the right of this photo could well have been my dad's outside of my nan's bungalow; the bungalow ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1947