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I was born and brought up in Station Town in the 50's and 60's and I too remember the rows of streets starting with Acclom, Vane, Roderidge, and Garden Street. Our favourite place was Dent's fish shop on the corner and ...Read more

A memory of Wingate

That title was the answer given by my father when folks asked him where Longriggend was! My dad was born in Longriggend on 6 January 1902. He lived there for a few years until his father moved to Dunfermline to seek new ...Read more

A memory of Longriggend in 1955 by Jack Pryde

My birth certificate says I was born at Bushey Hospital in the April of 1943. I’m told that it was during an unusually hot spell. I lived at 84, Lynton Avenue in Colindale up to 1965 when I got married and moved away. There ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Peter Woolford

We lived in Thurnscoe, Monsalstreet with my grandparents. Mother was Belgian, Daddy was an English soldier on duty in the dessert in Africa, regiment, the Dessert Rats. After a few years they went back to live in Belgium. I was 10 ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe in 1956 by Gwendoline Bushby

I was born in Esh Winning in 1949, dad Bob White and mum Alice Eddy. Mum's family had 2 of the chip shops and the garage, but dad's family were from Hamilton Row. I remember living in South Terrace before getting ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by Audrey Smith

I would like to share with you some of my early childhood memories of my formative years in Parndon, including places and names that might evoke similar memories to myself. I hope you will bear with me, as I will probably go ...Read more

A memory of Great Parndon in 1955 by John Conyard

I was born in '47 at West Mid so a pre NHS baby boomer (just). I have been looking on Google maps at our old house in Staines Road. It looks so much much smaller though it is a 3 bed detached. It is next to what was Hollygrove Works ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Howard Sanders

I was born in Church Hill, the cottage was called The Nook in 1950. My gran and granfer Glover lived in Middle Street. My mum, Isabel, was their eldest daughter, she married my dad, Bill Brenton, whose parents, Tom and Annie ...Read more

A memory of Port Isaac by Stephanie Berry

One of my ancestors by marriage comes from Winfarthing, she is called Sarah Dixon and she married my 4th removed grandfather, Walter Smith, from Bressingham in 1860 at Lakenheath Suffolk. They had a daughter, Mary Ann, born ...Read more

A memory of Winfarthing in 1860 by Derick Smith

My father’s family moved to Rhyl in 1891 and my mother’s family in 1925. My parents fell in love on Rhyl Golf Links. Even though they settled in Portsmouth after their wedding, family bonds held fast and we spent every summer ...Read more

A memory of Rhyl in 1940 by Anne Joseph