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Hi My name is Karen, I was born in 1962 in guys hospital and lived in a top floor flat in Gloucester Grove with my mum and Dad Doreen and Terry Stevens. Not sure what number because sadly my mum passed away. I do remember a grand piano ...Read more

A memory of Peckham by karen43

Does anyone remember mickey price's barbers. It was on the corner of the main road through the heights and claremont ave. theres a garage there now. Short back and sides was the order of the day and just ...Read more

A memory of Pendlebury in 1959 by Gordon Williams

I was born in Featherstone in 1956 and lived there until 1962 when we moved to Hampshire. My dad was also born there. We lived at 46 Market Street and my grandparents lived at 64 Featherstone Lane, on the corner of Gordon Street. I ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1962 by Carole Steele

My grandfather was born at Horncliffe Lodge, Tottington Higher End on Nov 15 1882. His name was Arthur Owens. His mother was Mary Platt whose family I believe were a  prominent family in the village. His father was Richard Owens. ...Read more

A memory of Tottington in 1880 by Eric Marsh

My mother Rose Rye was born at 24 Harnage Rd Brentford in 1908. She married my father Arthur Collins, from Strand on the Green, in the 1930s. They lived there all their married life until the houses were needed for ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by A Macken

I was born on the 28th March 1947, into an existing family of 5 siblings in a one-up one-down decaying terraced house of 12 Russell Street, Teams, Gateshead, just off Upton Street, near to the coke works, the gas works, the rope ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1947 by Alan Bull

I moved to Boot in 1952 when I was one. My father, John Heap, was the manager of the Burnmoor Inn, which was owned in partnership by his mother, Ruth Hargreaves, and Sid Cross. They also owned The Old Dungeon Ghyll in Langdale. I ...Read more

A memory of Boot in 1956 by Peter Heap

You'll all go "Oh yes", when I jog your memory that Seaview was formerly named 'Kite Farm Camp'. It changed its name to Seaview around '61/62 when Arthur Fitt the garage owner on the other side of the station bought it from ...Read more

A memory of Swalecliffe in 1960

My aunt, Kate Elizabeth Sarah Hunt, was the District Nurse in the Tockenham area covering Wootton Bassett and Lyneham for several years in the 1930's and she lived in Tockenham Wick. She lived in one of four small ...Read more

A memory of Tockenham Wick in 1930 by Geoffrey Head

I was sent to Bridgnorth at the age of 5 from our home in Birmingham to stay with my aunt and uncle (Doris and Arthur Howse) during 1942 due to the bombing in Birmingham. We lived in St Marys Street, about 100 yards down from High ...Read more

A memory of Bridgnorth in 1942 by Keith Macdonald