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Can anyone tell me where Ackrill corner is located in Little Sandhurst as it is named after my great great grandfather Ackrill and my grandfather George Ackrill would be very proud that a street was named after him. It is no ...Read more

A memory of Little Sandhurst by Michael King

I remember leapfrogging over the safety bollards outside the pub, opposite Cobbs the shop, I must have been about 8 or 9 (about 1955), the last one I became hooked up by my skirt. Can't remember how I got down, but I didn't do it again in a skirt.

A memory of Sydenham

I grew up in ashgrove from (I was very young) to 1959 when we moved to Ivygrove. I went about with andrew puller, ann and betty black, Jimmy walker and rodney walker, june pratt, sandy and the rest of ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill by tedinwindygates

Hi, I am really interested in the history of Erith and find it fascinating the various memories people have of the area, particularly Manor Road. Although I was born in Sidcup, my parents moved to Erith in about 1979 when I was about 12 yrs ...Read more

A memory of Erith by stephen.odowd3

My Mum and Dad had a small grocery shop in Carlisle st Splott in the 1950s I ththink it was on the corner of Cameron st but I'm not sure there was a bakery on the opposite corner .I remember my dad used to boil his own ham and pork to ...Read more

A memory of Splott by j.davies14321

Me and my 3 sisters went here , late 70s early 80 can’t remember exactly, what I do remember was how we had to share baths and be checked for head lice , they wrote with black marker on our underwear , a colour and number , even while we ...Read more

A memory of Skegness by sgriffihs

I was born 291 Friern Rd prefab December 1952 went to Goodrich infants & Heber rd school. Remember the parade of shops junction of Barry rd & Lordship Lane, Bert the barber, Val’s the greengrocer & next door grocer shop, ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich by irenecarnold

I remember St Mary's bay my husband and I had our honeymoon there 1956, My husband Cedric Baldwin His Gran had a cottage there and the families used to go for regular trips, the Shop on the corner used to belong to his friend he ...Read more

A memory of St Mary's Bay by Betty Baldwin

I remember living in Bells Close from early 70 to mid 80s, in fact I delivered papers to Bells Close and Sugley from the paper shop that used to be along from the new Lemington Centre, on the block that ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1977 by Michael March

I was born in1950 we lived above the family chip shop which also had a sit in area this is now where the betting shop is next was mcgills sweet shop then McCormack the newsagents which was a wooden hut it burnt down I thing it was ...Read more

A memory of Caldercruix in 1955 by Matt Sloan