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I remember the traffic policeman very well. I lived at The Morlands (25) from c1945 to c1953. I went to Framwellgate Nursery School, and the to St. Hilds Demonstration School until the age of about ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1950 by Patricia Hardy

We used to go as a family to the Tea Room which, if memory serves, was called 'Cornerways' for Sunday lunch, as a special treat in the fifties. My father took me to a wine tasting held in the ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1960 by Pamela Johns

I went to Marianne Thornton School in 1961 until 1966 when I was 15. I went to work for the GPO as a Continental telephone operator and did 3 months training in Eagle House on Cannon Street and then to Wood Street exchange in the ...Read more

A memory of Clapham in 1961 by Linda Goatley

I went to Oak Bank School for Delicate Children from 1944/1945. My best friends were called Kathleen and Enid. The children there at that time came from all over the United Kingdom. I have many happy memories from this ...Read more

A memory of Sevenoaks in 1944 by Eileen Lindley

My father (who lived 98 years) was an amazing character. Back in the 1950's when we lived in Jesmond Road, Croydon he built this strange 'shed' in the back garden. It was thoroughly air conditioned by the fact that it ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1952 by Francis Beck

I moved to Stoke Charity in 1965 when just a toddler and lived there with my parents,Teresa (nee Lansley) and Patrick Gray, and my baby brother Martin. Pat worked on the Rank Estate which allowed us to rent Old Keepers ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Charity in 1965 by Lorraine Boardman

I was born in 1957 in my nan and granddad's house (May & Fred Gloster). I went to Buckingham Road nursery school, then Edgware infants & juniors. I remember the head had a black and white dog and I would give it one ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1960 by Christine Isherwood

I lived in Cripplegate Lane (formerly known as Bottings Hill) for about 16 years. I went to Southwater County Primary School from 1957 till 1963 when I went off to The Forest Boys School in Horsham till 1967. My father worked ...Read more

A memory of Southwater by Ronald Richardson

We moved to Llanrumney Avenue from Adamsdown in 1964. It was the summer and the weather was gorgeous. I remember being taken on a country walk, through blubell woods and onto the foot bridge that crossed the ...Read more

A memory of Llanrumney in 1964 by Philip Steele

I am Jean Dunn, nee Livingston, and my Dad was the village policeman from 1953 to 1958. We lived in the police house at 'Sandymount' on Whitchurch Road. We left there when Matthew Lowe and his family moved into the new police ...Read more

A memory of Spurstow by Jean Dunn