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Lovely to see the old pictures of the village, they almost made me cry. Does anyone remember some of the old shops and their owners? Ted Shelley in the newsagents where I went with my pocket money to buy my weekly comic, also a ...Read more

A memory of Streetly in 1965 by Heather Keegan

I went to the park as a little girl as I lived at the public house the Walton Arms where I was born. I watched the dual carriageway being built, behind the pub. My grandfather worked at the Walton Hall with the horses and ...Read more

A memory of Higher Walton by Tricia Snape

I was born in Denham village but brought to Rockingham Parade, Uxbridge when I was one year old. Windsor Street was my main walking route to the town, bus, railway station and the shops. Uxbridge was a lovely town to grow up in ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1966 by Kathy Mc Nally

Does anyone remember the old camp site run by Mr and Mrs Dymond? It was roughly where Woolacombe Sands is now, near the riding stables. I can recall it was a steep field (no terracing then!) and we used to walk down to the old ...Read more

A memory of Woolacombe in 1956 by Anne Bohin

Life in Sheaveshill Avenue in the early to middle 1950's still seemed to me to be quite rural and as I recall we still had gas lit street lamps - or at least electric lamps using the old standards. The milk was ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1954 by Ken Hunter

Does anyone else remember Mrs Callow's wool shop? Situated in the High Street near the top of Station Road, it was ideally situated for primary school children to buy sweets after school. In my case this was only on a Thursday ...Read more

A memory of Ightham in 1970 by Daryl Austin

Although the view is intended to show parked cars, I am looking past the VW Beetle and the Austin A35 van and gazing fondly at The Queen's Head! Many is the pint of beer or cider I have drunk here since the 1960's although I ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1960 by John Howard Norfolk

Now as a baby of the swinging sixties (1966 to be exact) we didn't see the Beatles or Elvis Presley but we did have the lads coming home from the local pubs singing their hearts out. The pubs ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash by Clive Francis

I was born in Northampton in 1940, and lived there until December 1953. Both my dad and mum were Northampton born and bred, but while my mum's family go way back in time in the area, my dad's ...Read more

A memory of Northampton in 1953 by Sydney Claydon

Towards the end of 1968 my husband had to complete a year's site experience and his placement was at Kiddie.  We left our home in Kent and moved up. After searching for rented accommodation we were lucky ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1968 by Geraldine Todd