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I moved to Pitsea in November 1968, and my second child was due the beginning of December. We collected our keys from the council offices in Basildon, to our brand new house in Wickford Avenue. We were so excited, after being in a rented ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1968 by Sheila Madsen

As a child, up to the age of about twelve, we visited our grandparents at Godfrey Road during the summer holidays. This was probably between 1952 and 1960. My father, Ernest William Smith, was born in ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd by Robert Smith

Although born in Surrey, my parents moved to Swaisland Road when I was a baby, before buying a house in James Road in 1939 - just before the outbreak of WW2. I attended the West Hill School during my junior days. ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1940 by Michael Scotter

Born at 158 East Hill, I remember Claytons with the clock, Wavy Line across the road where I worked when I was 11, Ted and Ellen ran that, Fontaines sweetshop where I bought Jubblies with my sixpence. Went to St. Annes school. Would love ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1959 by Margaret Loughran

I lived in Hilldene Ave, 133 (to be exact) since I was born; almost opposite what was then Everards Hardware Store. Roof jumping at the back of the shops and riding bikes down the mud slope by what used to be the nursery by the church. ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1970 by Chris Newby

Our school, Park Modern Secondary, was situated in Barking Essex just outside of the east end of London. Each year, we had school camp at Sweets farm on the top of Dundry Hill, where we would camp for two weeks. We were told repeatedly by ...Read more

A memory of Dundry in 1963 by Christopher Bowers

I remember playing football outside our house on Primrose Hill with a police man when we heard a loud rumbling noise. We noticed dust clouds rising behind the last two houses on the street, we ran to my house and went to the back yard door ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn in 1954 by Norman Edwards

Memories: What happened to my youth in Streatham. Was born in 1942, raised on Hambro Road three doors down from the dust yard back of the ice rink. Educated Eardley Road, Balham "Borstal" High School, Brixton school of Building ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1955 by Kenneth Butcher

Right, I may be showing my age now and out of the blue finding this on the internet about 1973/1974. its about Alvin Stardust and his Mum at Wickford BR Station, for some bazaar reason at the age of 13 ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1974

I was born in Winchmore Hill in 1937 and from a very young age lived with my parents and younger sister Carole in Wynchgate, backing onto to the lovely Grovelands Park. When I got married in 1957 our ...Read more

A memory of Southgate in 1957 by wendypardy