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Does anyone remember Sherries Milk Bar on the corner of Dorset Road in Tuebrook...and the big stable yard next to the station where all the local coalmen stabled their horses and carts? I can remember going there and watching ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool by Pam Williamson

I remember when I was about ten or eleven, we used to camp out in the back field behind the flats in Rockford Avenue, four or five of us in a two-man tent. After a rough nights sleep we would get up early in the morning ...Read more

A memory of Kirkby in 1960 by Tim Dwyer

Born in 1947, I grew up on Babington Road, Streatham. I remember the Home Guard a few houses up and Robin Hanson and I would play on the search lights left over from the war when we were four or five. There ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1960 by Paul Chandler

Maybank was a large house, formerly a doctor's surgery, situated off St Anne's Road, in Aigburth. I was in "digs" there with the Jones family (Ron & Nell and their children Peter & Helen) in the 1960's. I met Peter at Cardiff ...Read more

A memory of Aigburth in 1964 by David Lougher

My father was transferred from a North East Mining Community,to a beautiful place called Biddulph.While he worked hard in the pits,we enjoyed many long days playing in some of the most wonderful places of ...Read more

A memory of Biddulph in 1962 by Elizabeth Graham

1942 was the year that my mother, Ethel Tyreman (nee Davidson) and sister Iris and brothers Harry, Fred, Frank and myself Eric, moved to Grosmont when our Whitby home was hit by German bombs. My dad, Fred, was a P.O.W ...Read more

A memory of Grosmont in 1942 by George Tyreman

I'm Not sure whether that was the actual date but as a child of five I recall my mother standing on the top step of our home where she would watch me go over the brow of the bridge on Midland Road on my way to school: ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1954 by Roland Mitchell

We moved to Dagenham from Plaistow in East London when I was two years old. We moved to Leys Avenue, on the Rookery Farm estate. It was out in the sticks then with the remainder of Rookery Farm still in business with cows ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1950 by Tom Baker

I was 17years old when I came to work at the Fleet Air Arm at Worthy Down. I wanted to join the army but, my Father wouldn't allow me to. So I joined the Naffi, and they sent me to Worthy Down - I loved my time there. Once I was ...Read more

A memory of Worthy Down in 1952 by Eileen Groenenberg Roche

I Remember the early Twenties. My mothers family, had a woodturning business, pianos, violins, and such good quality instruments, in Bethnal Green, London, She had two brothers, George and Albert, and a sister Sara. Sara was a cripple, ...Read more

A memory of Billericay in 1920