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We sometimes stayed in a caravan at Anderby Creek. Every day we took a picnic and stayed all day at Huttoft Bank. We bought flags and buckets and spades at the shop on the bad corner in Sandilands. My father used to blow up the inner ...Read more

A memory of Huttoft in 1953 by Rita Oakes

I can remember living at Black Park in a time when, although not so long ago, we didnt have any electric or running hot water. I lived with mum and dad in a row of cottages. My dad worked down the nearby pit and every day ...Read more

A memory of Black Park in 1961 by Diane Sparshott

I was born in Ferrers Rd (behind Ice Rink in Streatham). Moved to Kempshott Rd at beginning of the sixties, it was the road past the Pied Bull pub and South London Motors (a huge car sales place) was on the corner. Spent many a ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1966

I lived at 2 Fullerton Road from 1956-1965, it was a cul-de-sac in those days. It was lined with Plain Trees with sticky leaves. There were a couple of factories at the end on the left hand side, the names fail me now. ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe in 1956 by Barbara Saunders

Hi, I was born in 1953 in Beech Mount Hosptal. I had two sisters, Carolyn and Deborah and three brothers, Billy, Gary and Wayne. We lived on Queen's Rd and went to St Malachy's. I had my last year at St Edmund's, then onto Blessed ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1953 by Maria (Barlow) Steele

I've lived in Cowplain since 6 yrs old in 1968. To an earlier post above, on the corner of Durley Avenue and the main London Road, Cowplain, was a toy shop on one half - and was a radio ...Read more

A memory of Cowplain in 1973 by Simon Cox

My dad used to take my sister, my brother and me here. He would buy us each a packet of crisps (the kind with the salt in the twist of blue wax paper). A beautiful Alsatian dog called Major lived here and we would all stop to visit ...Read more

A memory of Timbersbrook in 1960

I was born in Abridge in 1964, the last of 9 kids. We lived in The Mead which is no longer there. Abridge was a great place to grow up, we would play outside in the woods or over the shallows all day and only come home when ...Read more

A memory of Abridge by Clare Horgan

John Plunkett, born 1950, raised in Stanley Common, educated at Smalley Common junior school, and Scargill. Worked as an appretice electrician at Rolls Royce in Derby where I qualified and studied at Wilmorton Colledge ...Read more

A memory of Stanley Common by John Plunkett

I remember living in Rutland Road, Forest Gate in 1944, after being evacuated to Yorkshire, we lived at number 21 Rutland Road, my grandparents lived at no 19, and my uncle and aunt lived at no 17. There was a ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1944 by Robert Munn