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From 1950 to 1952 I attended Shrewsbury College as a Agriculture Engineering student, and was boarded at Nearwell Hostel sited on the left of the picture (the tall trees on the left were part of the garden). I believe it has since ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1950 by Barrie Black

My elderly mother has been telling me how her first house was in a row of cottages she thinks was called Halfway Cottages, on the corner of Terling Road and Witham Road on the way to Terling. This was her first ...Read more

A memory of Terling in 1947 by Susan Seymour

Only sorry this is a black and white picture, as it does not do justice to the beauty and sound of this stream rippling along the pebbles as the water runs down. We had just 50 mins as we were in transition to Padstow, ...Read more

A memory of St Mawgan in 2013

We lived on Malden Road and I went to Chatsworth Infants and Juniors, then Nonsuch Grammar for Girls in 1955. There was a crowd of us used to meet at Priory Road shops and by the fish and chip shop. We went to Park Farm ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam by Joan Arnold

My memories are from 1955 when my family, The McNay's, moved to Parkwood Avenue, Bearpark. I was 2 or 3 yrs old, then about 2 years after that we moved to Quarry Cresent. I loved living in Bearpark you could run around outside ...Read more

A memory of Bearpark by Lynn Mc Nay

I lived in Hulme from 1969 to 1974. I watched all 4 crescents go up. For the first year I remember people being really happy about living in the crescents, then very very soon after, people started to beg to get out. I remember running over to ...Read more

A memory of Ardwick in 1960

I lived at Long House Children's Home. I remember running away one night with a bunch of the other kids and taken back by the police about midnight because we had decided to try and find food, McDonalds. I loved my ...Read more

A memory of Long Hanborough in 1985 by Sonia Nestor

In the summer of 1952 I learnt that my parents had decided to move from our home in the Midlands to the West Country as my father wished to return to where his relatives lived. It came as no surprise therefore, when one day they ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth in 1952

I worked at the Bakery for about two years, this was my second job after leaving school, which was the Bishop Ramsey Church of England School which opened in 1980 taking over Ruislip Manor and St Martins C.O.E school that was in West ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham in 1981 by Wayne Barrett

The Ring O'Bells was run by my grandparents, Ernest and Mabel Turner until the middle 1940s. I believe your earlier memory of it being called the Grapevine is wrong. I remember seeing the Grapevine, a much more modern building 500 yards ...Read more

A memory of Meare by John Turner