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My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford in the 1960s and 1970s as a couple of walks ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The day ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by shea.carol

The two principal grocery shops in Westbury village, as it was still usually called, in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the Co-operative grocery by the corner of Church Road -- the Co-operative butcher on ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

IT'S DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE OVER 55 YEARS HAVE PAST SINCE I WAS LAST IN PEN-Y-BANK. MY FATHER WAS A COAL GETTER IN MORGANS LEVELS, A HARD MAN THAT WENT BY THE NAME OF LEN THOMAS, OR BETTER KNOWN AS LT. I WAS ONLY 8 YEARS OF AGE ...Read more

A memory of Pen-y-bank by rthomas

I'm Not sure whether that was the actual date but as a child of five I recall my mother standing on the top step of our home where she would watch me go over the brow of the bridge on Midland Road on my way to school: ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1954 by Roland Mitchell

Hi Guys , Another piece of East End literature from Vic B , I was thinking back the other day of the things that made me laugh as a youngster growing up in the East End although it must have applied to the whole of ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

I was born in 1940 three days before,so I have read,a massive bombing raid over London on 29th September.We lived in Lancelot Court and then Harlesden for twenty years.Spent a lot of time in Wembley as Mother worked in Lyons ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by heffordr

Truly a wonderful pub when managed by Gerald and Edith Leader, before they moved to the Blue Lion on Broad Lane.

A memory of Bracknell in 1955 by Melvyn Ball

Saturday the 8th June 1963 was predicted to be the hottest day of the year thus far. Setting off by coach from Cheltenham were members of a savings club, myself included, bound for Weymouth. Our first stop was for refreshments at the ...Read more

A memory of Warminster

I too, remember Mr Foden (Church Coppenhall Juniors) along with Mrs Kruger, who used to scare me when she read 'The Hobbit'. Mrs Barker from Broad Street Infants and even before then I remember being at the nursery school next to St ...Read more

A memory of Crewe by Carole Capper (Stretton)