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I remember so much of my childhood in Brentford, mostly from the early 50s to mid-60s. Alfie Winkworth mentions the Pottery Arms pub where the landlords were sisters Wyn and Cissie and the Harry Matheson he mentions was ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by A Macken

I was born in 1946 and lived in Lamport Street, just off Warwick Street in Toxteth. We lived there until I was about 6 years of age. Because of town planning we had to move to Hawkstone Street but what I remember of Lamport ...Read more

A memory of Toxteth in 1950 by Richard Green

I lived around the corner from The Victory Pub in the High St. Arthur was the Landlord. I worked (temporarily) for a car hire firm up the road known as Modern Travel. I was madly in love with the daughter of the Bell Pub at ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1956 by Tony Houlahan

I remember when golfers weren't allowed to play golf on Sundays and the golf links belonged to the Leven folk. We had picnics on the slopes nearest the beach as our mother did not like sand getting into our sandwiches etc! So ...Read more

A memory of Leven in 1945

I can remember the New Post Office being built in the late 50's, the old Post Office being on the corner of Knowle Lane; the Greyhound Pub stood on this site before being demolished in the 50's.

A memory of Cranleigh by Chris Trigg

Have to say reading the entries of everyone’s memories is simply wonderful. Both my parents grew up in Mitcham, my father John Stockley who was Mitcham born and bred, married my mother Jean Nightingale in the church in Church Road back in ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1969 by Paul Nightingale

I lived at 1 St. George's Close, off Chalk Pit Avenue from 1946 to 1954. At first, the Chalk Pit was still there, as was the Oast House, where the shops are now on the corner of Chalk Pit Avenue and Main Road. I first went ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1946 by Terry Button

My mum was born there but came to Wales when war broke out as she was in care at the time. She stayed with a couple who had lost their own child and who eventually 'adopted' her so she never returned, but ...Read more

A memory of Uckfield in 1960 by Barbra Breeze

I grew up in and lived in Bensham for the first 26 years of my life, albeit the last 5 of those years were spent in the Merchant Navy as a sea-going engineer. My first school was Chester Place School which was across the road from ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Noel Kelly

Who remembers the duck pond by the War Memorial and the time it was filled in? I believe it was the early 1950s as I used to visit Lakenheath every summer holiday and one year it was gone. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Lakenheath in 1950