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Apart from lack of traffic, this picture of the Square doesn't show too many changes from when I remember it. I left Wimborne Grammar School in 1951 and became a trainee reporter with the Wimborne News in Mill Lane, just ...Read more

A memory of Wimborne Minster in 1951 by Brian Davis

In 1938 my mother walked this street with me and my brothers and sisters every week, to and from Cowgrove to visit my Grandmother, who lived in a row of cottages around the corner (coming from the Minster) which I ...Read more

A memory of Wimborne Minster in 1930 by Edward Read

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY BACKGROUND: My mother Milly and father Bert moved to Winchmore Hill from Camden/Kentish Town. I was born in 1944 at The North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton. I grew up initially ...Read more

A memory of Winchmore Hill in 1944 by Richard Starling

My father (W F King, known as Bill) was a member of this group which unfortunately no longer exists but has donated its photographs and booklets to West Yorkshire Archives. My father left me all his ...Read more

A memory of Windhill

This photo takes me back to when I was 5 years old and used to go to the supermarket in the Westmoreland Centre at Bromley South with my mum. It always seemed to be windy there, although I expect this is just the only time I ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1972 by Vicki Waving

I would like to ask if anyone remembers the shop Winifred in the Morris Buildings on Watson road. As i was chatting to my mother and she could remember an aunt that had the shop in the 50s - 60s. i am hoping someone may have a photo or some more information i could surprise her with. thank you

A memory of Worksop by Stephen Davey

I grew up in Chiseldon - Windmill Piece from 1953 until 1965 and would like to see any photos of the snow in Chiseldon for the winter of 1962/63. We didn't go to school for I think 4 weeks after Xmas and there was snow still on the Matlborough downs well into March.

A memory of Chiseldon by tomski1951

The caption in the Francis Frith book 'Paignton', by Peggy Parnell (p.46), reads: 'With his powerful business aptitude, Mr Dendy quickly installed the most important tourist commodity, ...Read more

A memory of Paignton by robert_slack5

I remember being taken to Wiveliscombe as a young boy in my Uncle Jim's dark green Standard Vanguard, he ran the Rock Inn at Waterrow 1954- 1965. He would take me to the toy shop at Wiveliscombe Square called ...Read more

A memory of Wiveliscombe in 1960 by Julian Bishop

This is a picture of the main entrance gates of Woking County School for Girls, known as the Girls' Grammar School, at the corner of East Hill and Old Woking Road. Girls were never permitted to use these gates: ...Read more

A memory of Woking in 1966