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Hi, I just stumbled on this fabulous site as I was trying to find some photos of the Duppas Hil Lane area. I lived at number 23 Duppas Hill Terrace from around 1963-71 and I would have been 12 or 13 ish when the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Simon Harlow Chalton

I was five years old when my parents bought 3, Molyneux Road , Farncombe in 1930. The houses were new, and there was electricity installed downstairs but not upstairs. There was an upstairs bathroom but the ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe by sidneycearl

I was born at 18 Primrose Lane in 1944. We then moved to Priory Road and then onto Brookside long before the ring road was built. I remember when The Grand cinema caught fire in the middle of the night and ...Read more

A memory of Huntingdon by rhonnrmn

My family's houses were situated next door to the chapel. In fact part of the chapel was built on what was some of our land. Family name was Chambers and in the early 1900s my Great grandfather William was the village blacksmith. When ...Read more

A memory of Oscroft by carolannsmith777

I lived in Camberwell from 1944 until when I married in 1964. There remains a small terrace of seven houses in Grove Lane called ‘Grove Lane Terrace’; they were built in the ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Richard Norman

These were good years amongst good people,although my memories of the school itself are rather mixed. I'm sure there are those out there who could add to my reminiscences. Some of the teachers at the time were 'Taffy' ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by gerr.quinn

In the days when we had "real" winters, (where did they go), Wardown Park Lake would freeze over and we would walk out over the ice and make slides. One year there were ice skaters on the lake and I borrowed an old pair that I had found ...Read more

A memory of Luton by ducatee

Hi Belinda Barton Having read about you on page 25 of the book " I remember when" from 2009, I see you lived at six acre cottages. I lived there in 1956 and again in 1958/59, my aunt Dolly and her husband Alec ...Read more

A memory of Fawkham Green by krc6646

When it was frozen over in the winter it was so much fun skating on it, had to make sure that no cracks would come in the ice, life was fun and not much TV.....

A memory of Loxwood by Lyn Hammond

I remember this well as I started here in 1953. It was in Merrow Street (on the site of the new school) had a solid flint fascia and the main curved archway at the front of the school which boasted 'the fear of the Lord is ...Read more

A memory of Merrow by sandra