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I was born in Thorpe Coombe Hospital in 1943, and lived in Corbett Road until I was seven - until I was 4, at number 37, with my mum, nan and grandpa, two aunts and one cousin; then at number 45, just me and my mum. My ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow by Gillian Swanson

Wow, what a page to have. I lived in Kingsbury from 1938 when I was born till the family moved to Canada in1951. My first school was Roe Green. When the 2nd world war ended, all those that lived on the other side of Kingbury ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1951 by Robert Manning

We lived in Uxbridge in the early 1960s. I used to go swiming at the swimming pool behind the college. The college had just been built and we went to St Andrew's COE School. The school was really old and we had a big iron ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by susansofutorunu

I went to Roe Green school, living in Princes Ave. We had to walk across the grass to the pool to have swimming lessons, very cold water, but great fun. Funnily enough my sister and I have been recalling our lives in the area ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1956 by Elaine Pallett

Born in the North Mid like most people my age (1931), I lived my first 25 years at Tottenham Hale, at the end of Brograve Rd., facing the Station Green. The green had a nice fence around it before the war when hundreds ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by Peter Mackin

Dear John. I too was born in Kingsbury at the Honey Pot Lane Maternity Annex in 1953. We lived opposite Brampton Road in the flats on the High Road. My uncle and aunt lived at 1 Brampton Road this being a house tied to his job ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by paulineandstewart

I was at school here from the time I was about 4 till 11. l remember the classrooms had colour names, the Green Room, the Blue Room and so on. As small children we had naps after lunch when we lay on little wooden ...Read more

A memory of Hersham by Ros Allwood

Our family lived at Lightwater (1 High View Road) ; I passed 11 plus and was sent to Frimley And Camberley County Grammar School, starting in Sept. 1959. One of the first things we had to do was to get the uniform. We went ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by tobypaws2002

I started off in Roe Green Village, all through the War years, I did National Service in Singapore from 1952 to 1954, married my childhood sweetheart Jean Wilson in 1955 she was head girl at Claremont Secondary ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by anthony.smith694