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My name is Robert Best. I was born June 24th. 1939 in Plymouth and evacuated to Princetown in 1941. My Mother, her parents and I moved to Plympton when I was 3 years old. I have clear memories of Princetown, of riding the train up ...Read more

A memory of Plympton by rjbmk

My husband was a career officer in the US Air Force. In July, 1971, he was posted to RAF Upper Heyford for four years. We found a house to rent in Shipton - Gale's Green - just two doors from the Shaven Crown. Our ...Read more

A memory of Shipton under Wychwood by jbp7466

1 lived in Erith until 1970 born in 1932 at 7 Athol road off of Deluci road which is next to the old Tivoli cinema we move there in 1934 from west street we had incenderies drop on our house in 1942 my father put ...Read more

A memory of Erith by george28532

Mum was evacuated to Ledbury in 1940 when she was aged 15. She spent two very happy years living with the lovely Preece family. Mum attended Ledbury Grammar School, the 'Country House' in the Frith postcard. ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by Liz Jarrett

Roger... After reading your recollections of the Woodsend Road I hope you don't mind me adding to your list of memories. It fair to say before I start to write we do know one another and by now we both have a lot of ...Read more

A memory of Flixton by yumapair6

I have lived on cedar street in ashton under lyne from being born to getting married and moving on the street opposite cedar street , Alderley street , my mum being still on Cedar street now , I remember where my ...Read more

A memory of Ashton-Under-Lyne by ultimatechez

Born in 1954 I lived in Graham Road, Wealdstone until I was 25. I started my school days at Whitefriars whilst waiting for a place at St Joseph’s and then ultimately Sacred Heart Grammar. I had a Saturday job in Poplar Stores and ...Read more

A memory of Wealdstone by overkeen

My parents home was in Costons Avenue in Greenford, I was born there in 1937 and lived there for 30 years. The rear of our house looked out to trees which grew on the boundary of Perivale Park some eighty yards away across the ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by vincentlees

My Harrison ancestors all came from Cambridgeshire, mostly from the Downham, where they were agricultural laborers and my father, Victor Alfred George Harrison was born in 1914 in Peterborough. His father, George William ...Read more

A memory of West Hendon by edgwaredr

My mother grew up in the Mainstone area in the 1930s and went to the village school there (by the Churchtown turn) for a number of years. Twenty years on, my brother and I would spend most of our summer ...Read more

A memory of Mainstone by Kevin Flynn