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I was born in Corringham in 1950 and in 1953 moved to Corringham Road, Stanford-le-Hope where my parents had bought a plot of land and had built a shop that they called Stanford Supply Company opposite the Regent Cinema. ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by shirleylawes

This is a very rare photo which is taken from a grass slope below a small coppice in a valley known as the "Moors" from the bottom of what is now called Orchard Lane. This unusual photo looks up the lane, (from ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe by Philip Baker

Swells Hill is mentioned in the doomsday book where very little else in this photo is. the row of a few houses in the foreground are the top part of Swells Hill, perched on the "Knoll" Looking east up the ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe by Philip Baker

This photo is taken off a knowle in Knapp Hill Lane, above the Factories, of Critchlies, (now demolished0, who made hair grips and knitting needles in the 1960s and Olympic Varnish, who in made working canal boats in ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe by Philip Baker

I lived at the very top of Ladyhouse Lane, in a farm cottage with two staircases, two large rooms and two bedrooms, one of which you had to pass through the other. No bathroom in those days just a tin bath in front of the ...Read more

A memory of Berry Brow by christineredfearn1

I was born in 1950 in Brampton Grove on Barn Hill and spent a lot of time playing in Barn Hill park especially around the pond. We used to toboggan down the hill in the snow and I remember breaking my front tooth on the rail of ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by daphnelever7

Hi, I lived in Mill Hill Road Acton for 8 years as a child in the 1950’s and remember all the shops in the High Street, all except one, the department store/ haberdashery shop on the corner of Market Place and the High Street. They ...Read more

A memory of Acton by alfie.small

Towards the end of WW2, I was evacuated to Bodmin. On arrival, we were taken by coach to a large hall. I suppose there must have been more than a hundred of us. At first, we noisily filled the hall, each with a single suitcase. At the far ...Read more

A memory of Bodmin by Michael Cremonesi

I have many happy memories of Broom Green. My grandfather and uncle were tenant farmers there and our very large family would descend on the farm for the occasional holiday. I can’t remember the name of the farm but it ...Read more

A memory of Broom Green by Douglas Smuth

1960s down the washbrook by the old bridge catching sticklebacks and bullheads. Paddling under the two arches. Playing football on the ice when the brook used to flood into the field next to the brook in winter. Walking the old ...Read more

A memory of Walsgrave on Sowe by Dave Edwards