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yes remember the bull demolished i and built Macfisheries supermarket in its place left my job with my mate Dave Palmer, we were both employed by Billy Horsborough who was the manager for better buying supermarket and the green grocer ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge by mercia2005

My name is Carl Wilkinson and I was born in 1954 and up until I was 14 I suffered from very bad Asthma my doctor said I had a church organ in my chest that was out of tune, so I was sent there I think in 1959 for the better ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves

I lived in Hickman road Sparkbrook from 1941 to1950 my mother was moved there after being bombed out twice in the war I loved it there and had lots of friends there, I remember V.E day and the bonfire, in the street to celebrate ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook by daniel.lynock1

born in 1940, and fond memories of schooldays at ditton primary ,in Liverpool road before moving on to simms cross, teachers were Miss Hartles Mr jones Eric Williams, Ankers Sammy Butterworth ,and not forgetting the ...Read more

A memory of Widnes by Raymond Price

Few people are aware of the part Birtley, Tyne Wear, (part of County Durham in those days ) played in the Great War of 1914 - 1918. Belgium in 1914 was occupied by the German Army, and thousands of refugees fled to Britain where ...Read more

A memory of Birtley by ranorwood

As a child in the mid sixties I remember that during the summer holidays my mother would take my sisters and myself for picnics occasionally in the walled garden that was at Langley Vale and also remember how we ...Read more

A memory of Langley Vale

I was born in Nelson Hospital in March 1960 and taken home to Burley Road, where I was for my first year, then the family moved to Lancaster Road, nextdoor to the painter: Olaf Barnett. My early memories were of open spaces ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by roland.patten170

Does anyone remember this restaurant in the late 60s and 70s? It was a massive treat to be taken here by my parents as a small child and feel so grown up, sitting in the red velvet booths with white tableclothes, melba toast ...Read more

A memory of Pinner by gina

My name is Ian Powell and lived at 48 Kew Bridge Road opposite the Plough and Waggon & Horses P/H. We arrived in 1947 when I was 6 mths old. I also had a younger sister Lynne who sadly passed earlier this year. Our house was ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by powlee

I was 19 years old, in the R.A.F. at Chivenor from October, 1948 to June, 1949 and was at the dance-hall in Barnstaple one of those nights in April, 1949. Across the room was the loveliest girl I had ever seen, brown wavy hair to her ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1949 by Kenneth Hughes