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I can remember playing with my friends on this viaduct as a 10 year old. We used to run along the two walkways running under the track and, if we were feeling really brave/crazy, we would race across the viaduct at track level, hoping that a train wasn't on its way!

A memory of Riddlesdown in 1978 by Doug Goldsack

Does anyone remember the children that lived in Highgrove House? I think it was run as an orphanage or similar. I used to catch a bus outside the house and was most times threatened or scared witless by the kids from there? I wonder what happened to them?

A memory of Eastcote in 1958 by Jacqueline Timms

My first school on moving from South London to 124, Brook Road was High Cannons at Well End. Then to Lyndhurst, a few teachers from memory : Tony Smith, Mr Thurston, Mr Fennel and who could forget Wendy Watford & her ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1960 by Stephen Ruby

I lived in 57 Avenue Road just off Crouch End Hill. I lived with my mother, father, sister Pamela and brother Gerald in two rooms. My brother was 7, my sister 12 and myself, 14. There were 6 families ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1957 by Hazel Pratt

I spent approximately 2 years as a messenger boy with the then GPO, based in two gracious old homes along Wimbledon Parkside. Their names were Gayton, and Martholme. I seem to remember the address ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1943 by Charles (Chas) Joyce

Good times. No electric, log fires, paraffin lamps, everything cooked on the old faithful black lead grate which I had to clean every week. No running water - my job every night when I got home from school was to get the ...Read more

A memory of Four Ashes in 1954 by Michael Jones

I lived in Keighley Drive, opposite Crossleys sportsfield until I got married and moved to Bradford with my husband. I have so many lovely memories of Illingworth and Ovenden. My brother went to St. Thomas More school and I ...Read more

A memory of Halifax in 1965 by Sylvia Moore

Family legend has it that Grandad took a small party of friends for a pint or two in Oakengates. At the end of the evening for a lark he undid the traces and when they set off the horses went and the cart tipped up, to ...Read more

A memory of Oakengates in 1940 by Marie Fellows

I was born in 1954 at home in George Street, Low Valley, in what was known as Company Row, presumably as it was built my mine-owners to house their workers. It was a two up two down terrace next to the ...Read more

A memory of Low Valley

I was born at Low Westwood, a small mining village in the North East of England in 1955 – well, when I say I was born there, that’s not entirely true. Unlike today, children were born at ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1960 by Kathy Aveyard