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I started work for Austin's of East ham in 1978, and work their other factories in barking I have done research on Austins as no one seems to know about the company now that were the largest joinery company in the country, ...Read more

A memory of East Ham

My father worked at Sonning Mill before transferring to Sindlesham Mill, his name was Fred Hopkins, he was a rollerman, we lived in a row of small cottages with a yard behind the cottages and a very long narrow garden . my mother cooked on a ...Read more

A memory of Sonning

This photo shows a view from the 'top' of Surrey Street market and my father was a trader there from just after WW2 until his untimely death in 1960. He operated a fabric (yard-goods and drapery) shop and during the good times had a stall ...Read more

A memory of Croydon

Can I post a few memories of Wimbledon's 4 cinemas. I was born at the Nelson in 1943, and lived locally in Woodside until my early twenties. Just after the war the town had four cinemas. The Odeon in Worple Road was the largest and ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by cliffjharrison77

i started work in bates yard 1955 till 1984 i saw lot of changes

A memory of Croydon by davidschultz637

I am a New Zealander born in 1946. From about 1950 to about 1953 my father worked for the NZ Government in London and my parents, my older sister and I lived in Lynwood Ave, Ealing during this time. I have many memories of this time ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by dgjensen

We currently live in this house, or to be correct the two cottages on the left which have been knocked through and made one, and luckily now with Central heating is quite warm and cosy. Like Mike and Rachael next door whom have also posted on ...Read more

A memory of Farningham by Russell Berryman

My gran Emma jane Stacey and grandfather Walter john Stacey lived here . My father used to take us on the cremyl ferry across to Edgecombe and then we would bus it to Millbrook.. Sometimes we would be ...Read more

A memory of Millbrook by manchuella

I was born at 53 Potter Hill, it was great in those day's. Mrs Jones had the shop at the top of Potter Hill, same row as the Church was on. We were 4 doors away from Codge Frank, the chicken and egg man. Nita was at the fish and ...Read more

A memory of Pickering by anneandchibby

I remember the dairy in Havelock road i was a milkboy helping a milkman on a round in a bedford van doing as far as heathrow airport driving across the tarmac to the aircraft hangers, try that now, i remember waiting early ...Read more

A memory of Southall by daleewestcountryjag