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When I was at junior school (I was born in 1946) my maternal Granddad lived in Morley Cottages in Colebrook and worked in the signal box at Plympton Station. I lived in Molesworth Rd, down the road from Plympton Grammar ...Read more

A memory of Plympton by jlhenderson21

I lived in Boileau Road from 1948 to 1962. We heard the cuckoo every year. In Hanger Vale Lane there were Tawny Owls, Woodpeckers, Spotted Flycatchers and Blackcaps. There was a wood where Thackeray Court ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by philipsolly

I lived in Boileau Road from 1948 to 1962. We heard the cuckoo every year in the fifties. In Hanger Vale Lane there were Tawny Owls, Woodpeckers, Spotted Flycatchers and Blackcaps. There was a wood where ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by philipsolly

I lived at Hithermoor Farm,Stanwell Moor from birth in 1951 until 1973.We farmed part of the Reservoirs and a large chunk of Greenhams Gravel Pit land. Many happy memories.Started school at Shortwood,Staines in 1956 with Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Stanwell by John Hutchings

THE KITE FLYERS The Second World War had just ended before I started school. In that summer the craze in the council estate was for kite flying. Me and my pal Brian used to watch the big lads, Sam,Teddy, Bobby and Ian, ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street in 1945 by Derek Shepherd

My name is Barbara Annison, nee Wyer. I was born in Binham in 1948, we lived in a house on the green facing the market cross. My dad worked on the farm nearby and as children we used to play in the stables and barns. There was a lovely big ...Read more

A memory of Binham in 1948 by Barbara Annison

I was born in Perivale and lived with my parents and grandparents in Greenford Road (no.283), just 2 doors along from Croyde Avenue. My Nan and Grandad owned the sweet shop in Greenford Market, where the buses ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1960 by Deborah Alexander

I was born at 274 Coulsdon Road in 1946, my father had a business in Caterham-on-the-Hill and my paternal grandparents lived at 31 Canons Hill - all my childhood was spent in the area so I have a lot of ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1955 by Colin Puttick

I was born in Hornchurch and attended North Street School, I can still smell the greens from the canteen. We had little beds put up in the hall and after dinner we had to have a little sleep before afternoon school, then ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1946 by Doreen Trigg Ne Birleson

Friends of our family once lived in Railway Cottages, Bexhill Road and in those days when you were young and your families were friends you tended to call the adult members 'uncle' and 'aunt'. Their real names were Harry ...Read more

A memory of St Leonards in 1958 by Colin Apps