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I remember Grand Drive in the mid 1950s as in the photograph. I was a teenager at the time. To the left of the fence were fields where horses were kept. It's all built up with a housing estate now. So sad to see the way a lot of the ...Read more

A memory of Raynes Park by Bob Ford

My name is Bill Mitchell - when young in Wheatley other children called me Billy. Some of my old school friends still live in or around Wheatley. My father had a shop in Station Road for a while selling electrical goods, and he ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley in 1960 by Bill Mitchell

I lived in Upton Park throughout my childhood and also attended St Mary's School in Herschel Street. I also recall regular visits to the ABC cafe after school in my teens. The Crown Hotel was just about opposite the ABC, on the corner of ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Patricia Rudkins

While my father was having his house built in Thornton Grove he rented rooms from Mrs Parry who lived at "Marden", a vast rambling Victorian pile at the end of Westfield Park, not far from the church. She had a gardner ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1954 by John Price

My family moved to harold Hill during the early 1950s from Dagenham. We lived on Paynes Brook Way first which must have been one of the first roads built as I remember lots of houses being built. We then moved to Brosely Road ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Peter Cheese

Apart from a weekend visit to see a football match some ten years earlier I had never been to Glasgow so you can imagine that it came as something of a shock to be offered an attractive job in the city in 1975. My ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1975 by John Howard Norfolk

I only have great sunny memories of Halifax as a child. A lot of these photos in the 1960's show the sunshine... just how I remember it. My granddad worked on the buses and in the photos he may have been on one of those! His mate ...Read more

A memory of Halifax in 1966 by Zoran Milovanovic

In 1974 my parents lived on a residential Caravan Park (2 Fox Corner, Thickwood Caravan Park, Colerne) and I am after some history of the site, for family tree purposes. They lived there for only approx. 8 months and then moved ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1974 by Becky Tucker (Nee Peacock)

I was born in Moccas at Castle Cottage. My grandmother lived at the common where, on her death I moved with my parents to the common. My father and his father put the fencing around Moccas Park which some of it still remains today.

A memory of Moccas in 1941 by Doris Avery

My email address is brettgavin54@gmail.com, I am two years younger than you, but went Chandos St Boys School, we must of seen each other. Did you have a page boy hair cut,(blonde) when 10 or 11? I'm not sure this site comment is genuine, anyway, if it is real please reply.

A memory of Netherfield in 1972 by Brett Gavin