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Just to say this is not THE MARKET PLACE , as a boy it was known to us as SMIDDY HILL . It's the gateway to the MARKET PLACE . The band used to play on the green on SMIDDY HILL on a SUNDAY . And the LETTERED BOARD pub is in those ...Read more

A memory of Pickering by anneandchibby

I was a pupil between 1942 and 1944. My name then was Barbara Brown and I lived in Redditch, travelling each day by train. I went to Woodruff because my father had also attended the school (Walter Brown, around 1907 ...Read more

A memory of Barnt Green by barbara

In 2011 Croydon Council stopped maintain the bowling green. Since then volunteer local residents , The Friends of Marlpit Lane Bowling Green (see our website), have restored, maintained and managed the ...Read more

A memory of Coulsdon by Peter Morris

I grew up in Nizewell Head, we spent a lot of our time playing on the green with our friend's on bike's and playing in our gardens. This was in the 1970's and 80's we would walk around the village go to the shop and down to the river. I ...Read more

A memory of Steeple Aston by wills

I lived in Station Road from 1932 to 1943 and attended the Primary School until 1935. I walked to school and remember often having to wait for trains at the level crossing. ...Read more

A memory of New Waltham by whj

I lived in Station Road from 1932 to 1943 and attended the Primary School until 1935. I walked to school and remember often having to wait for trains at the level crossing. ...Read more

A memory of New Waltham by whj

I lived in Station Road from 1932 to 1943 and attended the Primary School until 1935. I walked to school and remember often having to wait for trains at the level crossing. ...Read more

A memory of New Waltham by whj

Roger... After reading your recollections of the Woodsend Road I hope you don't mind me adding to your list of memories. It fair to say before I start to write we do know one another and by now we both have a lot of ...Read more

A memory of Flixton by yumapair6

I have great memories of my time in Eltham went to Deansfield Primary School and then on to the Gordon School from 1958 to 1962, when for a short while I was captain of the school boxing team, albeit I think there were only two of us in the ...Read more

A memory of Eltham by jperry47

From a book my sister left me I chose Rosedale Abbey as my destination on my first journey through England. I was alone and took the train to York in 1971. From there I went to Whitby and then the moorland train to ...Read more

A memory of Rosedale Abbey by David Ebertt