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This picture shows the beach and the Eastern Esplanade at the Thorpe Hall Boulevard Junction. The elaborate shelter was built as the Thorpe Bay Terminus Waiting Room for the Southend Corporation Tramways before the Esplanade Line was linked ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

I lived in Coalville in 1940. My father was a Police Inspector and we lived at the Vaughan Street Police station. There were two flats, the other was occupied by Dad's Sergeant. The Court used to sit upstairs in another part of the ...Read more

A memory of St Austell by John Roberts

We lived from the late forties until 1957 in the Council houses at Crookhayes, The fields behind our houses were numerous and we used to enjoy watching the cows gadding about. The hedges surrounding the fields were ...Read more

A memory of Shaftesbury by euphemias

Feeling a bit nostalgic, I browsed some sites showing my old primary school, my home town and village of Pontnewydd and found this site with a memory of Gazzis ice cream parlour in Pontnewydd. I remember my father treating us to an ice ...Read more

A memory of Cwmbran

I was born in park royal hospital in 1955 and lived in Douglas avenue alperton until 1980. I remember going to Saturday matinee at the regal cinema, ice cream in demarcos who also did great coffee. Henry coopers fruit & veg stall ...Read more

A memory of Wembley

I remember Moot House. I had moved to Harlow New Town in 1952 as a ten year old girl with my family and in my teens I cleared the tables and washed up in a café in the House on Saturdays. As I was too young to be employed and ...Read more

A memory of Harlow by rossmeadpa

I remember my school days at Tilbury where I started school in 1934 at the Roman Catholic School in Calcutta Road and left in 1944 just a year before the end of the second world war In 1947, I was called up for National ...Read more

A memory of Tilbury by John Ryan

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the Third ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the Third ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the Third ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage