Search Results

The shop on the corner as pictured was called Rapley's Corner Shop owned by Mrs Rapley in the 1950's, and as a child I used to help Mrs Rapley serving and re-stacking shelves with stock after school and on Saturdays. I loved ...Read more

A memory of Crawley Down in 1957 by Elizabeth (Liesel) Walters

Hello my name is Derek Harrington. My Aunt was Nellie Combes who was the cook at Fingringhoe Hall and my mother was Doris Harrington who cleaned the rooms at The Hall. We had just returned to England from ...Read more

A memory of Fingringhoe in 1945 by Derek Harrington

I was a student at Dockenfield Manor in the 1940's. Looking back, the entire faculty should have been arrested for child abuse, fraud, and a host of other charges. At the time, the Headmasters name was Dr. ...Read more

A memory of Dockenfield in 1940 by Maurice De Montfalcon

York Jones is the correct spelling i.e. no 'e' on York! In 1955, I was ten years old and would work here during school holidays. My Great Uncle (my Grandmother's brother), was Frank York-Jones, the Managing ...Read more

A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1955 by Colin Sinfield

I lived with my parents and grandparents in an upstairs flat 8 Clutha Place,101 1/2, (yes one hundred and one and a half!!) Old Mill Road, Uddingston until I was about two and a half. I remember watching the Coronation of ...Read more

A memory of Uddingston in 1953 by Chrystal Mc Glone

My dad ran the St George's youth club for a few years. He also had the butcher's shop on Old Road in Flowery Field and my grandpa owned the butchers on Croft Street. The youth club was up some rickety stairs in the loft space in ...Read more

A memory of Hyde

Born at 158 East Hill, I remember Claytons with the clock, Wavy Line across the road where I worked when I was 11, Ted and Ellen ran that, Fontaines sweetshop where I bought Jubblies with my sixpence. Went to St. Annes school. Would love ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1959 by Margaret Loughran

My family met the Alderson family from Scorton when they came to Bingley Hall in Birmingham to a cattle show. They could not find accomodation and my parents put them up; they returned the hospitality hence we stayed at Scorton Road ...Read more

A memory of Scorton in 1956 by Marguerite Caldecott

My Dad was born at 202 St Leonards Road, Mortlake on 14th June 1913. I have no understanding of how the family came to live there and the only way I have found out is from Dad's birth certificate. He was ...Read more

A memory of Mortlake in 1910 by John Howard Norfolk

Used to go and play in the streams and the River Brent, the memories are so vivid. Tis, was, of course during the war. I and a friend, took my three and a half year years younger ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1944 by Eileen Margaret Tristram/Nee Wheeler