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i remember lower swell because it is where i came from i was born 1974 and i lived there with my mum and my brother and nan and gramp till the age of 11 when we moved to stow i went to st marys as did my brother, my mum and my aunt and 2 ...Read more

A memory of Lower Swell by Michelle Taylor

I can repeat much of what has been said by others. I was born in Stepney in 1946 and after a period of homelessness and moving from friend to friend my parents were given a prefab in Foxglove Crescent (no. 25) It was a fairly ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1950 by Ken Nicholls

I was born in Backworth in 1937 and lived in a large house at the bottom of Percy St until about 1945, i can dimly recall the end of the war but in no great detail. My father was the colliery engineer for the coal mines in ...Read more

A memory of Earsdon in 1947 by John Thompson

My Grandparents ran the Alexandra Park Tavern before and during the second world war, they were Kath and Albert Allan. I was born in Nov. 1941 in Winchmore Hill and was taken back to live in the pub. There was ...Read more

A memory of Wood Green in 1941 by Angela Scott

I have very fond memories of summer holidays in my aunties cottage that is my grandmas sisterinlaws on adelaide road. Going to the open air swimming pool playing on the park the pub across the road from her house that sold ...Read more

A memory of Andover Down in 1959 by Sandra Barlow

I lived at Willow Lane in the mid fifties and I was in the local hospital there which I think was called Hayton Hospital(but not sure of the spelling or area) Can anyone remember this please or where I could maybe find a ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1956 by Christime Finn

I remember going to Alma Road school back in the early fifties when they still gave you a good hiding with a cane if you got into trouble. We changed schools to the new Secondary School in Bexley Lane when it first ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup by Gerry Horn

I have livid in ReadyToken for the last 62 years I was born in Bibury in Arlington corner and the family moved to Field Farm then we moved to The Catherine Wheel were my Grand father was the proprietor. My parents ran the Pub during ...Read more

A memory of Ready Token in 2014 by John Adams

My mother and I and two brothers were residents in the Wandsworth, London work house in 1930. When it closed that year,we were sent to the Norwood Children's Home on Elder Road, West Norwood where we remained ...Read more

A memory of Norwood Green in 1930 by Richard Nash

I was born in 1946 and lived in a house in South Road, not far from Jimmy Parkes the butcher. This was, of course, well before the advent of supermarkets. My mother and I used to walk from South Road, along Clifton ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge in 1949