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I lived on the camp site for 5 years - my father was the link trainer for pilots there. I can remember going to the cinema there - smoking up the back - then realising my mum and sister were in there that same night !!!! I must have ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1962 by Candace Thorpe

I worked at the Bakery for about two years, this was my second job after leaving school, which was the Bishop Ramsey Church of England School which opened in 1980 taking over Ruislip Manor and St Martins C.O.E school that was in West ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham in 1981 by Wayne Barrett

I moved to no 52 School Street around 1964 or 65. My parents were John & Vera - they were Irish. We lived next to Edna Brown who had Stephen, David and Lorraine. There were other people on the street - the ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey in 1965 by Anne Booth

I too have many happy memories of growing up in Buckhurst Hill in the 50's and 60's. I lived at 25 Loughton Way and went to Princes Road County Primary. There was Mr Carr (a friend of my dads), Miss Gardner, Miss Oram and Mr ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Martin Hough

I have read an article by Sylvia Lock. I made me smile and bought back so many happy memories from my childhood in Edmonton. I to remember Pymms park and yes the dentist at the clinic in the center of the park. I was sent there by my ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton in 1958 by Keith Thompson

Fantastic comment of the old log book from Scackleton School. I have family members who went to the school in the period mentioned and live in the village now. Would love to see the book. The surname Sanderson mentioned ...Read more

A memory of Scackleton

I worked at the Hotel Continental as a receptionist in 1979, my boyfiriend was the restaurant manager and we got married in the August and were given a day off and had an informal reception in the bar afterwards. It was a great ...Read more

A memory of Mundesley by Rowena Mellows

My granddad used to stay here and mum said it was a lovely Victorian hotel, very comfortable, it became a Trust House hotel, I believe but was pulled down in the early sixties. Amazing to think all the traffic to the south coast ...Read more

A memory of Horsham in 1955 by John Skinner

The Pantomime Cinderella was performed at the Ilford Hippodrome from Dec 28th 1942 – Jan 4th 1943. When the pony hauling Cinderella’s coach stopped on the stage it went and dropped a load of poo - the ...Read more

A memory of Ilford in 1943 by Edward Lawrence

I lived at 106 bedwellty rd until I joined the Royal Air Force in 1952,I often went on the milk round, and even filled the milk bottles in the dairy at the back of the house.It was only milk floats in my day with the horses ...Read more

A memory of Cefn in 1949 by Bernard Reeves