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What a memory has been stirred!! The Classic cinema. Every Saturday morning for I think it was a shilling and we spent the whole morning there. I was born in 1953 and went to Howard infants and junior school then to South Croydon secondary modern school

A memory of Croydon by brendaveiter

I was born in 1941, we lived in an old Army hut, opposite 'Burraper' Mill. Strictly speaking this was in Sherborne St. John, being the other side of the Beau Brook and the Iron Bridge, but Bramley was a lot nearer. ...Read more

A memory of Bramley by Chris Williams

Hello. I came across this site yesterday quite by accident and was really taken away by all the memories. Here are mine - I was surprised by the names and everything else that came back to me. Forgive me if I don't spell all ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1948 by Colin Newberry

I lived in Yorkletts from 1953 until late sixties. I used to go to Bill Shine's to get paraffin, which he kept out the back. While he was filling my can his old mother would lift the lid on one of the many sweet jars and give me a ...Read more

A memory of Yorkletts by info

My family and I lived in the old houses along the canal, there was a large archway leading into what we called the big yard, I was very small and can still remember the smell of the coal trains as we stood on the ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1956 by Moreen Arundel

Born and bred in Woodford. Had a paper round at WH Smith on the Woodford railway station. Not too bad in the summer but freeezing cold on the winter mornings. Sang in the choir at St Barnabas Church and receive 3 shillings ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1955 by Mike Francis

I was eleven in this year 1954 and me and the lads were by this time avid collectors of anything, tab packets was top of most lists, we would scour the streets and gutters wherever we went for that elusive cardboard. The bins behind the ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1954 by Jimmy Burrows

I remember Linton Locks very well as the upper lock gate enabled me to visit the Power Station that was manned 24hrs a day, year in year out. There were three attendents, Aleck Musgrove, an unknown, and Ernest Muir. In the 1940's ...Read more

A memory of Linton-on-Ouse in 1940

We moved from the garrison to the village just after the floods, I was 12. We moved into Malakwa, next door to the post office run by Mr and Mrs Smith and their daughter Silvia (I had a crush on her but that is another ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet in 1951

I vaguely remember Sibley's Butchers in Hornchurch. In the early 50's I used to go in the shop and watch my uncle, Reginald Brett, cutting up and selling meat, offal, sausages etc. For a young lad it was very interesting. At the ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by chris.morley