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Hi there, I couldn't see a name on this entry but the entry above it had the name Ted Stock, is that you? I don't remember that name but remember York Road School and the dreaded Mr S who also beat me most unfairly. I remember Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1955 by Jeannie Fletcher Nee Beddows

My mother lived at Morris Ave, Penrhiwceiber but I was born in 1942 at The Lady Aberdare hospital Mountain Ash. My mother walked through the snow to get to the hospital, the matron told her she was foolish doing ...Read more

A memory of Penrhiwceiber in 1948

I was born in Caerphilly Miners Hospital in August 1969 but I grew up in a property called Gladstone Villa with my mother and my grandparents. The property was a council one and it was split into four flats; we lived above the ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed by Andrew Dexter

My grandfather and father owned J.McMurdo & Son Bakery in Fairy street. My grandfather started the Bakery before the war. It came under a compulsory purchase order and was demolished in 1973. When I left school in 1972 ...Read more

A memory of Rutherglen in 1965 by James Mcmurdo

I remember the winter of 1962/63. I was at Crowthorne C of E Primary School at the time and lived in Pinewood Avenue. I used to go home for dinner and I remember the path and road being thick with ice and compacted snow - no ...Read more

A memory of Crowthorne in 1962 by Pauline Witton

Our school was next door to Ealing Studios. Our headmaster was Alan Sainsbury Hicks, a peppery little man who came to a sad end by drowning, I heard. When I was in form V or lower VI we had a request for a number ...Read more

A memory of Ealing in 1954 by David Woolf

I got married at St Michaels (first time) on September 19th 1970, was married for 24 years then divorced. Everybody I knew got married in that lovely old church. Pitsea was lovely in the "good old days", I remember going to the ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1965 by Beryl Lucas(Bull)

I was a teacher at Walsh Manor Home Office School in the early days of the school. Mr Laycock was Headmaster, Mr West was the deputy and Mr Arrow was the other teacher. The Housemaster was Mr Stewart. Lord Longford was one of ...Read more

A memory of Crowborough in 1965 by Colin Newman

My name is Bob Dunford born 1937. The Dock Road tragedy is the worst memory of them all. The night before went swimming with all my mates in the naval cadets. Next day, I and my friend Peter Gerard ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by Bob Dunford

I came into this world in 1952 at the Alexandra Nursing Home in Muswell Hill. I lived in St Mary's Road off the High Street until 1960 when we moved to Hawthorn Road where I lived until 1974. My dad (Pete McCafferty) used to drink in ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1952 by Jan Carpenter