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A two bedroom flat on the third floor, 46, Durham Buildings, became home to me, my two siblings and parents for about 9 months from 1961 to 1962. The flat had no bathroom but a small outside balcony which housed ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

My parents returned to UK to put my brother and I into separate boarding schools. I went to Kingsley, Horley from 1960-63. My name was then Alison Kirby. I remember Miss Willetts as my form mistress and she taught Nature Study. ...Read more

A memory of Horley by alison

I lived at what I think was 74 or 73 Garvan Road in the late 1950s early 1960s. My dad owned the house and we had a family living upstairs and I recall their surname was Parsons. Next door was a friend of mine and his name was Jonny Douglas. ...Read more

A memory of Fulham by tandoh52

In 1798 my Ancestor Thomas Baker was a boy of 6 years and was living in the village of Staple with his parents and younger siblings. Thomas Baker's eldest brother was Richard ...Read more

A memory of Staple by Gemma Gemma

Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by keith.hindson

Is that Yewbarrow Lodge (the original one) in the background? Hit by incendiary bombs in 1941, and burnt badly. We used to play in the remains as children - Sadly SLDC didn't rebuild as per Colonel Porritt's wishes, and now although serving a great purpose as a nursing home, is a ghastly eyesore.

A memory of Grange-Over-Sands by Helen Roberts

I rember the third day of April 1961 , when I got married to Janet Walker she was the cobblers Daughter in Emley , a lovely girl and still is after 57yrs the next day we woke up to 1ft of snow. We bought our first house there , a cottage ...Read more

A memory of Emley by gedwilson36

I was a student nurse there from September 1962 until September 1964. I have such happy memories as well as sad ones of my days there. Sister Smith or Slosher Smith as my set called her was indeed a strict person to work under. She reduced me to ...Read more

A memory of Alton by sheilaamorgan

My name is Brian Newman and I was born in Barking in 1942. My old man was a grocer and his shop was Newman Stores in Ripple Road by the Harrow, or as we called it, the "arrer". There was a long row of shops either side of Ripple Road. I could ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Brian Newman

My grandmother (Edith Florence Pawley) worked in service in Shorne (I have a very badly damaged photo). I have a postcard written to her from her fiance, addressed to her c/o Mrs Levy, Court Wood, Pear tree Lane, Shorne, probably ...Read more

A memory of Shorne by dtpankhurst