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I went to duke Street school in the 1950s I can remember the playground was on the roof as well as outside the classrooms, Mrs Moores taught me to knit and sew and Mr Beasley was my last teacher there I can ...Read more

A memory of Hulme by jamieonestep

hi i was born in ash grove seaforth in 1934. moved to empire road (24 i think) then on to ismay road where i lived until 1959. my da was the mager of the collie during and after the war. i remember the match works being ...Read more

A memory of Litherland by normanelliott4637

We moved to Swindon in 1957 from London (Wimbledon, actually) when my dad, a skilled engineer, got a job at Vickers Armstrongs at South Marston, with a brand new council house thrown in. In those post-war austerity days there was no ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by besafisher

I was born in a hospital that I think was on the Mile End Road. It may have been the Mile End Maternity, or Mother and Babies Hospital. Born within the sound of Bow Bells I am able to call myself a true Cockney. ( I hope I have ...Read more

A memory of Poplar by Joyce Hunt

I lived in Church Rd, for the 1st 7years of my life. (1943 - 1950. My Father, Bernard John Musgrove was the Chief Operator at the Regal, & Mum, Joan Richardson (married 1942,) was an usherette. Dad & Mum were sleeping in a ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by annjack69

Hi , My name is Vic Ballard , I was brought up by my Grandparents from 1942 and lived next door to Cassland Rd school which later became my secondary school , my first school was Orchard Rd at the end of Cassland Rd and ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

I was born in Cowgate Road, Greenford in 1938. About 1950 we moved to Ruislip Road. I remember playing in the park at the end of the road and visiting the river Brent nearby which of course was out of bounds to us little ones. During the ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Paul Gardiner

Some time ago I read with great interest in a local paper that the pool at Arley had been restored. My formative years were happily spent at Green Lodge on the green where I was born in 1932. My farther lived there ...Read more

A memory of Arley Green by peterastleslfc

I lived in Hayfield from 1940 till 1960. My mother moved my brother and myself here to get away from the bombing of Manchester where I was born. I have so many memories of being brought up in this wonderful, for a small boy, ...Read more

A memory of Hayfield by b.brose

I lived in and around the Romford area from 1957 until 1979 - I have never been back. I went to school first at St Edwards (the confessor) near the market square, we were taught by nuns and some were tyrants! Sister Aloysius, tall and willowy, ...Read more

A memory of Romford