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Being born in Boundary Road, listening to the yells from West ham on a Saturday, the old Co op butchers and grocery shop, Brampton school/ park, the bakers, the milkman with a horse, playing in the street, calling car ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1945

Born in the North Mid like most people my age (1931), I lived my first 25 years at Tottenham Hale, at the end of Brograve Rd., facing the Station Green. The green had a nice fence around it before the war when hundreds ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by Peter Mackin

i lived in newbasford i was born in my house at 3 high church street 1967 that house no longer exists the council knocked the area down 1978 i lost good friends and neighbours sadly my mum and dad are no longer around i had a wonderful ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1976 by Pearl Veikens

The personal views of Resolven expressed in these pages reflect my own fond memories of Resolven, the Vale of Neath and its people. In 1953 I returned to the valley as a teenager, little did I know it was to become my home. I worked ...Read more

A memory of Resolven by Barry S Britzman

OUR HISTORY AS A COMPANY To get all the information I've had to go back to the very beginning, here goes. Sarah Ann Kershaw born 1855 married James Roscoe becoming Sarah Ann Roscoe. Sarah ...Read more

A memory of Little Lever by jmilly75

I was born in 1924 @80 water street in the rear part of a sweetshop fronting on water street & owned by My Godmother Eva Parks-My Father worked in the steel mill & We moved to London in 1931 for My Father to obtain work which He ...Read more

A memory of Port Talbot by jamescoll65

I was born, during the Battle of Britain, at 8, Roan Street. Our back yard bordered St Alfege's churchyard. The house is not there any more because it had to be pulled down after the war. We had several 'near-hits' ...Read more

A memory of Greenwich by marionlangham

Not sure of the year it was in the 1970;s my dad told his fireman to jump, as there was to much weight on the back.Has it was going down to padiham power ...Read more

A memory of Padiham by allanbrendag

I was born in nunhead in 1939,lived in barset road,nunhead,i survived the bombing years,was avacuated for a while,then returned to hide in the Anderson shelter in our back garden,went to holidale road school,then on to Peckham rye ...Read more

A memory of Nunhead by Peter Mills

My mum was born in 1923 at 4 Didcot street her name Dorothy Camp she lived most of her childhood at 9 Surrey Lane she had three sisters Violet Camp Lilian Camp Winifred Camp and Brother William Camp remember going to visit nan at 9 ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by Marilyn Heath