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I grew up at 43 Grove Road, Mill End,1931-1955. My much beloved father, H.P.Farr was the Watch Maker for about 40 years at 165A High Street. Dad occupied the little shop from about 1929 to circa 1969. I think the photo is wonderful.

A memory of Rickmansworth in 1920 by Bettie Farr Jordan

I was born in Denholme but moved to Wilsden when I was two. I can remember arriving in the back of a furniture truck. It was a lovely life for a child, even after the war started. Most of the dads were away fighting but the ...Read more

A memory of Wilsden in 1930 by Shirley Jones

Sheila King was my best friend. I lived in 43 Muspratt Road, Sheila in no 16. I went to St Thomas's infants. Beach Road Litherland Juniors then Waterloo Secondary Modern. Was Married in St, Thomas's. There our paths were separated. I ...Read more

A memory of Seaforth in 1953 by Beryl Doherty

I have fond memories of Wrose, Living in the only bungalow in Westfield Grove I can still hear the horse and cart crawling slowly up the cobblestone lane as the milkman Mr Mortimer dropped off his milk and orange juice, ...Read more

A memory of Wrose in 1955 by Stuart Bedford

My Grandmother lived in Yew Tree Cottage, The Ryse Hatfield Heath with Bob Challis. I was a little girl growing up in London, and would visit at Weekends and school holidays. Uncle Bob was a stockman on the farm but later due to ill ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield Heath in 1965 by Jane Puddephatt

I attended Palmers Green High School in the late fifties and early sixties. There were no school playing fields so we had to go to Ford's Grove in Winchmore Hill for sport. One day I and a group of friends went to find ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1959 by Marilyn Hall

Westsleekburn secondary modern school class 4a 1955/6 school trip to Whitby.Later a school concert organised by a teacher & his wife who moved to Lindesfarne to teach.The headmaster drove a Morris car I think his name was Mr Strong

A memory of West Sleekburn by argemtis71

I went to Vale View School at 72 Meliden Road as a boarder from 1960 to 1966 and those six years were some of the happiest times of my whole life. The headmistress Mrs Constance Gill and her two sisters Miss Edith Woodward and Miss ...Read more

A memory of Prestatyn by muriel.colinbaxter

My name is Margaret Laughton nee Ward I was born at Gate Burton Hall on the 7th July 1944 My parents were Randall and Olive Ward, we were from Torksey Lock, My father was the lock keeper there, he also drove the school bus (Applewhites) around the local villages for the Gainsborough School

A memory of Gate Burton by margaret.laughton1944

I moved to Gravesend in 1967 at the age of 16 , I had a job transfer from Mac fisheries in Yate near Bristol. When I first saw the Mac fisheries shop in Gravesend High st I was surprised to see how small it was , expecting the High ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend by peter_john_green