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I lived in Saxbys Garden Cottage in 1963 and worked in what was then called Gordon House - a Care Home. My friend Jo and I were there for 6 months only. It was while I was working there that I found out Gordon House was once called ...Read more

A memory of Cowden by carolbrunello

Does anyone remember the petrol station being built on the corner of Mill Road where it joins Purfleet Road around 1969/1970. An Esso station now I think, but then it was ABCO - (with a big orange and black triangular logo) I worked for ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by alandvi.187

My name is Jean WHILEY, previously Clark, I lived in Cherwell Grove on the Belhus Estate with my 2 brothers, Jim and Dave and my Mum and Dad. I went to the Huts school for a short time before going to Somers Heath and then onto ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by jean.whiley

I lived in Oakwood, then Enfield West, from 1937 till 1946. My father had the Chemists Shop in the Parade, his name was George Reid, and we lived above the shop. Opposite was Victor Sasoon’s Estate, where I think Prisoner of War ...Read more

A memory of Oakwood by Doris Barnard

Hello again. I started at Cold Ash School, St Marks C of E in 1953. The school consisted of the original brick building housing two class rooms and a large hall, plus a new wooden extension of two more class rooms and ...Read more

A memory of Cold Ash by grahamfsmith

I was christened there in 1960, we lived on Myrtle Grove and my Nan lived in the old Lennard House

A memory of Aveley by joyofworship

Wow! I lived in Burnt Oak from 1955 to 1973 at 240 Deansbrook Road. I went to all three Woodcroft Schools in Goldbeaters Grove. I had/still have friends in Oldberry Road (the Walshes). I remember the Meads School burning down and ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by margaret.stedman

I moved from St Pancras to Etherley Road Tottenham with my parents as a very young baby. I was born in 1941 and lived in Tottenham until my late teens. I went to Belmont school from 1953 to 1956 during which time I had a class ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham by xox99bb34zz

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

My memories are of the quillets children's home and all the people I met there 1976 to 1980 also I went to mill lane comprehensive at those times the mods and rockers and punk rockers were all the rage kids drove round on ...Read more

A memory of Ellesmere Port by mariacrouch777star