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My mum and dad were the first people in the Old Roan estate in 1936, living in 18 Bradfield Ave. The cost of the house? It was a through room, and cost £425! The houses with a front and a rear room cost £450! ...Read more

A memory of Old Roan Sta in 1930 by Barry Mounsey

Like alot of young Kiwis, my wife and I started our OE (Overseas experience) in 1986, and in January 1987 found ourselves in Motspur Park as a result of applying and getting bar jobs at the Earl Beatty pub. Graeme and Marie were ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park in 1987 by Peter Van Vroonhoven

This is from about the 1950s. Along Grange Road was a huge piggery and it was owned by the Liddle family, by, did it pong. Further along you came to the railway crossing with the sign STOP, LOOK, LISTEN in red, this was where the steam ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

I lived the war years in Gloucester and at weekends when the weather was great, my friends and I would take the bus to Cheltenham and spend the day at the lido. I thought it was a wonderful place. There were massess of American ...Read more

A memory of Cheltenham in 1943 by June Jackson

Memories of Wrekenton a mining village in Gateshead, County Durham from my late mother and my memories from the 1950’s My mother was born in Wakes Yard in a mining village called Wrekenton, a ...Read more

A memory of Wrekenton in 1950 by Ron Summerson

My home was in Buckhurst Hill but on saturdays in the summertime my Dad would sometimes take my Mum and I to the cinder racing track at High Beech. My memories of those saturday aftrenoons come back as clear and a ...Read more

A memory of High Beach in 1930 by Denman Lalonde

I remember that we had some wonderful days at Dark Lane on the beach when we should have been at school! And how wonderfully clear the water was, and diving off the pipe there!

A memory of Aldwick in 1969 by Marcus Hume

I was born in March 1939 and lived in South Chingford 1939-66.  Frances Road 1940-47 and Underwood Road (Ropers Farm Estate) 1947-66. I loved Chingford and still do.  I regularly visit Chingford and was there ...Read more

A memory of South Chingford in 1940 by Robert Randall

My name is Dennis Nurden, I have a twin sister Valerie, we lived in Sunningdale Ave when Murex sports ground was there. Though not born there we did all our schooling there and left when we were about 18yrs old. At ...Read more

A memory of Rainham in 1950 by Dennis Nurden

Yes the place is All Soul's School. I went there from 1957 to 1964. My name was Jayne Thompson then. I lived in Cheriton High Street. I'm trying to find out the name of the butcher's which used to be next to the library. It's now ...Read more

A memory of Cheriton in 1958 by Jayne Watson