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This picture was taken further down the High Road from the Century Cinema and the Post Office, going towards the war memorial, and in these modern blocks there were several shops I regularly visited, including a hairdresser's.

A memory of Loughton in 1956 by Diana Dioszeghy

My sister and I came to Hanford House with the Wimbledon High School at the beginning of the war. After a year the school returned and the owner of the house, Mrs. Lister, collected a small group of ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1940 by Barbara Thompson

National Service As a 71-year old now living in Macau (China) I still retain the warmest memories of Bexhill in the 1950s. At that time I was a National Serviceman stationed at RAF Wartling (Upper Barnhorn) and courting a local ...Read more

A memory of Bexhill in 1956 by Peter Westwood

The building on the left, the old Post Office, is now the TSB Bank. My Father-in-Law can remember the trams travelling in front of these buildings....no shelters, so the poor old Teddy Boy got wet!!!!!

A memory of Ipswich by Tami Cross Halls

We used to always walk to school Fawbert and Barnard a few yards up next to police station  in the summer and walk home.Behind the bus stop was the post office.I was 8 when this picture was taken.

A memory of Harlow in 1953 by Eddie Tait

When I was about 11 or 12 in the 50's I used to ride from Bookham over to Ranmore quite often.  I would take a packed lunch in a rucksack and off I would go for the day all on my own.  When I got to Ranmore, I used to tie ...Read more

A memory of Ranmore Common in 1958 by Paula Clements

My early memories of Woodford, were being taken by bus, from Byfield Primary School, to the Moravian church, in Parsons Street, for the polio injection, also of going to the cinema, which was opposite the Post Office, to see the Big ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Halse in 1959 by Neville Eyles

I am a former pupil of Chaigley, where I spent several happy years.  I remember the little school house on the left side opposite and a little further up from  the post office where we used to sit and have an illicit smoke.  I also ...Read more

A memory of Thelwall in 1976 by Chris Everard

This was the year that I and my family moved into the Post Office where we lived for the next 9 years. During this time I saw lots of changes to the buildings accross the Framfield Road. My father changed the inside of the Post ...Read more

A memory of Blackboys in 1956 by John Hawes

I remember breaking and entering on a Friday night in February. Mr Doyle the local policeman rounds us up on Saturday a.m. in his house that doubled as a police station. Father went crazy and ripped up Wales-Australia ...Read more

A memory of Pontyclun in 1958 by Peter Harris