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Living in Southend meant that Felixstowe was a bit of a busman's holiday for us but Nan had a caravan there - close to the amusement centre on the old unmade road to the fort. I clearly remember the hiss of the ...Read more

A memory of Felixstowe by Collin Unwin

I was born in 1951 and enjoyed a very happy childhood in Thornton Heath. Our house backed onto the Graveney River and the Rec. Blissful for children. Many happy hours spent in the children's playground with the playground lady a qualified ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Pauline Macdonald

Spent a good deal of time here in my younger years. My brother & many of his friends worked at the MoD,, & had what they called 'the Tuesday night cinema club'. Good or bad, most Tuesdays would see us at ...Read more

A memory of Great Malvern by bru.enzer

Mr Wolfe owned the butchers shop in Huntingdon. I learnt years later that he spoke up for a member of our family when needed otherwise our lives may have been very different. He was such a generous man, I was about 8 when I would ...Read more

A memory of Huntingdon by Charlotte Payne

Hi I lived in Roman Road 1965-75 Went to Stansfield road primary then onto Parkinson Street in 1973 I remember the field next to the park that used to have the fair every summer and the carnival parade came down Roman Road Sadly houses ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth by Jill Haskell

I think it was Easter weekend 1963, a friend, Peter Smart and I hitchhiked from Newcastle upon Tyne to Dunnoon. We were amateur 'Ban the Bombers'. We booked in to the Strone youth hostel - we had spent the previous ...Read more

A memory of Strone by Barrie Braidford

My strongest memories of Lewisham is there being three cinemas there. The Gaumont (where I saw the Beatles live in the 1960s) - I went to Saturday morning pictures there. The Rex cinema, just by the bridge ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham by Jackie Walder

I started work at 15 when I worked at the quilt factory, I later went to work at Tizer pop factory. I had smashing mates there my own age but we all got on with the older women as well. Friday night was the best night of the week ...Read more

A memory of Byker by D Olly

We were always good friends the closest... Rosoland died quite young and I had moved from Croydon and settled where she had moved to years before. Hastings. I was born in 2 Stretton Road East Croydon. stones throw from ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Dianne Woollams

I spent my teen years during the late 1970s and early 1980s at Church Farm Caravan Site. We spent our days wandering the site or walking to the Crab and Lobster Pub at Sidlesham. That was before the harbour wall was put in, and ...Read more

A memory of Pagham