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What I am most interested in writing about is how Highgate Village has changed so much since my school days, growing up there in the 1960s. Today most of the shops are coffee shops, estate ...Read more

A memory of Highgate in 1965 by Robert Molesworth

My name is Margaret Saunders. I was born at 3 Theobald Street, but at sometime we moved to 18a Theobald Street. I went to Furzehill Infant and Junior schools, then on to Lyndhurst. We lived over the shop that was the stationers, ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1948 by Margaret Wilson

My sister Wendy and I went to school at The Sacred Heart Convent on Erith Rd in the early '50s. I remember being taught by nuns in traditional nun's habits. But one teacher who wasn't a nun I remember because she was called Miss ...Read more

A memory of Erith in 1954 by Marian (Aka Brooke) Lydbrooke (Nee Cope)

I am puzzled as to which year this photo was taken. It must have been very late fifties because my earliest memory of The Rest Garden, as we called it, was when it was still recognizeable as a graveyard. The gravestones (many ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

I used to live in Lawrie Park Gardens from 1955 until 1962 and the local youngsters used to congregate at the big tree on the roundabout at the end of Lawrie Park Avenue. At times there were around 10-15 of us all sitting ...Read more

A memory of Sydenham by Jackie Walder

My name is Carol Dawson (nee Thomas), I lived in Kenley Road with my mum Ellen, dad Len & my brother John. I went to St Georges School in 1951, I remember Mr Allen & Mr Church, there was a dishy teacher there also ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1946 by Carol Dawson

I think it was 1959 anyway; I was 4 and a half and lived in Burnside. I went to Uppermount School in Waterlooville and used to walk there with my older cousin, Martin. I remember a teacher (I think her name was Mrs Brown), ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1959 by Denise Barclay

I remembered my family was the first Chinese family to live in Aveley High Street. This park I used to come to a lot with my parents and sisters/brother. This slide - I remember when I first slid down on it, my sister put ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1976 by Miu Ling Cheng

I have great memories of Battersea park. In the school holidays, with mum working days and dad working nights, my sister, brother and I, along with friends were taken to the park every day while dad went home for a sleep. I must have ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by Jean Wray

I was born in 1948 in Wallasy Cheshire, now Merseyside. As my maternal grandparents lived in Plympton, we used to spend two or three weeks with them every year. A day out to Goodrington was very popular, travelling by train from Plympton ...Read more

A memory of Paignton by Edward Godfrey