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My sister and I spent many happy holidays in Highcliffe. We used to stay in a chalet that was situated in a field at the back of a pub. There were chalets all the way round the edge of the field and there was a shower block at ...Read more

A memory of Highcliffe in 1969 by Lynn Smith

My parents June & Brian Cocklin owned the Cycle and Toy Shop at 14 Broadwalk from 1963 until 1975. I lived there with my brother Christopher and sister Leonie. The shop was next door to Diggi's Cake Shop ...Read more

A memory of North Harrow in 1970 by Joanne Cocklin

Growing up in the 1950s I remember spending a lot of time going to Danson Park; it was always an all day thing as I had to catch two buses to get there. I lived in Upper Belvedere (off Parsonage Manorway) and caught the ...Read more

A memory of Welling by Alan Roberton

We moved to Buckingham Road in Edgware from Islington, I thought then that it was the country, I went to Edgware junior school in High Street, I think it's been knocked down now, then I went to St Thomas in Canons ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1971 by Derek Doyle

I was born at Treherbert Hospital in 1935 , This was a miners welfare hospital where my mother was taken by the late, Treorchy GP, Dr Furgus Armstrong. My Mother had been the pianist for silent films in the Park and Dare ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert in 1930 by Graham Jones

I was born in St Catherine's Hospital during 1943 and spent the next 22 years living right across the street from it until I emigrated to Canada in 1965. I can remember my mother, my sister and I walking along Derby Road ...Read more

A memory of Tranmere in 1950 by Angela Rickett (Nee Kavanagh)

I was born in Manygates hospital and lived at 13 Clarkson Street, Lawefield Lane with just a wall seperating my house from my school so I would jump over the wall at the last minute. The house is no longer there. I would roller skate ...Read more

A memory of Wakefield in 1947 by Maureen Goy Nee Mead

I loved our park and was there every spare minute. Apart from all the exploring, we had swings, slide, ranty, and paddling pool, tennis courts and a massive duck pond where I took my own children. When I was 9 years old I practically ...Read more

A memory of Wakefield in 1956 by Maureen Goy Nee Mead

I remember Barnehurst and Bexleyheath in the 1960s. I loved a girl called Lin who lived in Rudland Road in Barnehurst. We used to spend lots of Saturday afternoons in the Astor Cinema near to Bexleyheath ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1963 by Rich M

I remember going to the park with my two brothers and playing on the swings and slide, also catching sticklebacks in the steam at the bottom of the park. As I got older I used to take my dog to the park and he used to go down the slide.

A memory of Old Whittington in 1955 by Lynn Burton