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I lived here from around 1952 until the late 1960s with my parents RF and WM Marsh who ran the Post Office and Stores. My father used to deliver groceries to customers over quite a wide area, some of whom lived in Coombe ...Read more

A memory of West Monkton

I was born in Colindale in 1937 living in Sheaveshill Ave. We had an Anderson shelter in the back garden in which I would sleep all night when bombing was bad, it was easier than getting me up when the sirens started at ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Jack Luxon

34 South Street was my home from 1963 to December 2007! My grandparents Ellen and Lewis Edwards lived here along with my mother Anne and myself. It is the second house on the left with the single window upstairs. (This was my ...Read more

A memory of Corsham in 1962 by Karen Mc Intyre

I grew up in one of the bungalows at the foot of One Tree Hill and often spent weekends and school holidays with the Keeper's children, Peter and Jonathon Scott.  One Tree Hill was a fascinating place to spend our weekends and school ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1966 by Stephen Dann

I used to live in Grace Avenue, Bexleyheath and one of my earliest memories is of first viewing the house when I was 2 years old. We moved in about 6 months later. I can remember seeing Fairfield Road marked out ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1953 by Josephine Taylor

My step Dad Alf Baker owned the hairdressers opposite Wakemans Hill. It used to be called Rosalind, named after his first wife who lived above the shop. It was changed to Craig's in 1959. His car is parked outside in this picture, ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1959 by Andrea Marlow

I used to go to a pre-school in Wickham that got turned into tendy flats/houses. It used to be just down the hill from Clarkes and had an old house with the most wonderful almost 'secret' garden ajoining the school and the old lady that ...Read more

A memory of Wickham in 1983 by First Name Last Name

I remember many happy childhood days spent at my grandparents' cottage up the hill towards the railway station. There was a block of four cottages on the right hand side of the road. My grandfather's name was Silas Wren, and he was well into ...Read more

A memory of Wareside in 1952 by Fred Wren

The church in this photograph is the Catholic Church of St Thomas á Becket on West Hill.   

A memory of Wandsworth

I was born in 1938 in London. My parents moved to Burnt Oak when I was 3. The Second World War made a big impression on me. I remember having to sleep in an indoor steel cage. Other times we had to dash over to the air raid ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1955 by Brian Banks