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Started at Berwick Road School September 1958 along with Christopher Bennion, Terence Taylor, Tony Duncan, Susan and Sandra Blackburne and John Moore.  I remember the Winter that year gave us a huge patch of ice in the playground where ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1958 by Stephen Owen

I remember much of a childhood in Hounslow. We moved there approximately 1955/6. Grand parents Alice & Arthur, mum Shirley, stepdad Fred, Jennifer, me, Wendy & Christopher - Billy arrived a bit later. Some happy days. (I ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1960

Our family moved to Burnham from Wimbledon, Raynes Park, in late 1948, to 34 Lillian Road when I was 4. We came like pioneers of the west in the back of my father's employer's canvas covered Ford truck; mum & ...Read more

A memory of Great Stambridge in 1948 by Malcolm Bowen

The Seagoing Years. I must have left the Army sometime in August or September of 1949, and went back to C.J.King & son, tug owners, to carry on with my job as deck boy. This was not to my ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1950 by Arthur Cottrell

I was brought up in Williams Close in Crescent Road in 1962-1983. At top our road there was a old gothic house which I was looked after in as a four year old by a lovley lady called Mrs Murphy. I always ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1974

I remember my first day at Crown Lane Primary School, Crown Point, West Norwood. My mum walked me to school and we all went in with the other children, most of whom I knew from our estate. My mum gave me threepence for my dinner money ...Read more

A memory of West Norwood in 1964

We lived on the corner of the oval adjoining Burnt Oak Road in a flat, 53b, above what was at the time an empty shop. It was wartime and we used to ride our bikes around the empty shop. Out the back was a garden and there was an iron fire ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1942 by Hazel Whatley

My twin sister and I used to go to the Oadby baths on a Saturday morning with some friends, and we always used to have a race to see who got in first. Unfortunately one week I forgot to take off my watch before I jumped in and so got a ...Read more

A memory of Oadby in 1961 by Patricia Pike

In 1973 having just left school that summer, I started my State Registered Nurse training with tutor Miss Wilmot at this Southernhay Hospital. Being a 'young lady' from Bristol my new colleagues and I were expected ...Read more

A memory of Exeter in 1973 by Heather Uden

When I was 14 and a half, I took an evening and Saturday morning job at the Woolworths in Varley Parade.  I was still there five years later, when my A levels came to an end.  I still see supervisor Dot from time to time, ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1977 by Geoff Phillips