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In the mid 50`s, I delivered groceries on a trade bike to places in Glen Faba, from Noyes shop, in Rye Road, squatters had moved into many places and were customers. They kept Alsatian dogs to keep anyone in authority ...Read more

A memory of Hoddesdon by interharnett

The little white building in the middle is the Lamb & Flag. I spent many a happy lunchtime & evening there in the '80's. It was a Marstons pub, run then by Don & Sheila Jones, an Irish couple who I think had been ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by bru.enzer

Hi mine is not a memory but wanting to say my birth father was at Blandford Camp he was training to be a physical trainer his name Brian he never knew I existed as he left the camp before he knew my birth mother was pregnant. They met ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp by Paula Hewes

Does anyone remember The Tramp. It's quite likely that he wasn't a tramp at all but that's what we called him, although we never spoke to him nor did he ever speak to us. He became an almost daily fixture adding to the intrigue of ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Denman Lalonde

Hi Mate. You wrote under Greengate and Irwell banner. During the late 1940s, I worked at The Salford Electrial Instrument works in Silk Street. Many a day I walked to Victoria Rail Station via Greengate on my way home to ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1940 by Donald Isherwood

Hi my name is Derek Phillips, I used to go to the Trades and Social Club back in the 1970s, I worked with my uncle Ken Mathews who was the secretary of the club. The steward and stewardess who ran the club were ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1973 by Derek Phillips

Being born in a house opposite the Angel pub in 1952, and having a family history going back over 300 hundred years in the village, I think we were a local family. Those memories of the school holiday times will last a ...Read more

A memory of Stanton by Colin Fordham

My family were the first to occupy number 5 Tenter Lane, Warmsorth. I think that would be at the end of 1946. I have photos of myself and my older brother outside that house in the snows of 1947. We left in the summer of ...Read more

A memory of Levitt Hagg in 1947 by Enid Richardson

Owen Ellis Roberts was born 8th Sept 1892 at Weoley Park Farm, on his death certificate it said Weogley Park Farm, Northfields, Birmingham, I would like to thank Birmingham archives and Warwickshire library for their help. Mother ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1890 by Don Burville

On the right, between the first and second trees there was AJC Motors, apart from Cornwall Garage, the local garage and filling station. The premises comprised an office on the street with an arch at the side leading to the ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1956 by John Price