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I Lived in Broseley Road and was a bit of a tomboy. My best friend was Jimmy Reynolds who went to Harrowfields, which made me a bit of a traitor as I was a Quarles Schoolgirl. My best girlfriend was Vivienne Davis who went ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by goodey.twoshoes

I was born in West Middx Hospital in July 1942 and lived in Vicarage Farm Rd from then until about 1960. Went to Springwell Infants then onto Heston Junior School. Failed the 11+ so went to Heston Secondary Modern.Great teachers Mr ...Read more

A memory of Heston by George Eyles

still remember growing up there good people and great community guy fawkes night was great fireworks organisd by parents including andrew macmillan who run the bingo and owned the stag pub at the bottom of the town a ...Read more

A memory of Wishaw by Peter Chalmers

Woolworths for a small boy had a certain fascination, well for me it did. Firstly I remember being bought a tin plate trolley bus by my mum. It was Empire made. There were the arms on the roof just like the real one we had come on from ...Read more

A memory of West Ealing by Nick Beard

As a student at Aber 1944-48 I used the Bing Kee (spelling as I remember it) laundry when I could afford it. Bing Kee and his wife seemed to be very old but there were two daughters (or possibly grand-daughters) ...Read more

A memory of Aberystwyth by anthonywaterson

I was born in Battersea in 1938. We lived at 28 Forthbridge Rd near Clapham Common. With my mum and sister, I went to the Granada cinema loads of times on a Saturday night. Often you had to line up to get in and they had ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by tedpettit

My grandparents, George and Bertha Unwin lived and worked in Churt Between 1913-1924. They married at St Johns Church on Christmas Eve 1913. My grandfather was chauffeur to a Mr Shattock at Bookham's and they lived at Bookham’s ...Read more

A memory of Churt by Angela Tremain

I lived on Grosvenor Road, Urmston - the allotment end - from 1965 to late 1969 age 3 to nearly 8 years of age with my 2 brothers and parents (we then moved to Blackburn). My daughter has recently ...Read more

A memory of Urmston by magwat13

We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more

A memory of Teddington

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman