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More Memories From A Boy Growing Up In Burghfield
Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common by
Walderslade Thoughts
I live in the house where I was born in Walderslade. I have a huge collection of memories as, being 64 things that linger in the memory are triggered by living in the place you grew up. Kit Hill Avenue was originally cut ...Read more
A memory of Walderslade by
Purveyor Of Sweetshops
I knew all the best sweet shops on Lavendar Hill Rd. Easily the best was Browns Sweet shop where Stormont Rd met Lavendar Hill. It had every sweet you could think of and seemed to be open 7 days a week until 9pm. I think the owner ...Read more
A memory of Battersea by
Life In Burghfield In The 1950s
The passageway led from Clayhill Road all the way through the village, and came out on the Reading Road, some 2 miles away, the passageway was used by us children daily as a short cut to school, and it went by ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common in 1955 by
Another Slice Of Life In Burghfield And Sulhampstead
My Grandfather George Thomas Cooper 1880 to 1957 lived at Hebron a Detached Victorian House ( which is opposite what today is Coopers Place, named after my late Father Phillip George Cooper ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common by
Beanz Dreamz...
Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more
A memory of Abbey Hulton by
Lightning Strikes
This is August 1953, I was 10. We were playing cricket on the clay field with some older lads, the stumps were iron and came from Spencers steel works which was nearby and stuff like this was easily got. Anyway I remember it was ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1953 by
James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990
Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings in ...Read more
A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by
Pig Farm
I can recall going with my father up to Barkingside after an air raid during the Second World War and seeing a farm that had been hit. There were fire hoses all over the road and pigs running up the High Street. The farm was just across the ...Read more
A memory of Ilford by
Bristol's Cabot's Tower
Bristol's Cabot's Tower, and the penny pinching Council. Bristol's most prominent land mark, the Cabot Tower, was 100 years old in 1998. But the official opening was marked by a disastrous fire, a confidence trick and some ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1890 by
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