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Living in Hillingdon we used to catch the 207 trolley bus into Uxbridge for shopping and entertainment and particularly on Saturdays for Burton's dancing. We would hang around the underground station always fearful of the ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1959 by Garth Randall

As a boy I was shipped off in the summer holidays from the family farm in Kent to stay with Grandparents at 15 Ellison Road. I soon developed a fascination for the trains and would spend most days on the station courtesy ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1959 by Lynn Woods

My Grandad was George (scissors) Jackson. He was a very well known and respected member of the Tilbury community. He ran his florist business from home in Auckland Close, serving many Tilbury families with cheap bouquets, ...Read more

A memory of Tilbury in 1959 by Larraine Jackson

My father was manager of a drapers shop at the lower end of Green Lane in the 1950's. It was called Ryder's of Northwood. If you turned left down Green Lane at the war memorial (as this photo shows) it would have been the second ...Read more

A memory of Northwood in 1959 by Christopher Tubb

My father, William Westgarth, and his family lived in George Street, Willington Quay, for many years before moving to High Howden. My father worked at the slipway, then on to Swan Hunters ship yard; ...Read more

A memory of Willington Quay in 1959 by Carole Westgarth

I lived as a child in Down Road, Alveston (at Barton Cottage - now demolished) from 1959 to 1964 and have great memories of Thornbury. Having no car in those days the family would march down the hill into Thornbury to Mass on ...Read more

A memory of Thornbury in 1959 by Paul Martin

I worked and lived at the Golden Lion Hotel, beginning when I was 19, fresh out of Westminster Hotel School, when I was a trainee/assistant manager there from 1959-63 or 64, with the exception of the winter of 1962/63 when I worked in ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1959 by Dylan Rivis

The coffee bar at South Croydon with 'steps' was known as the Chalet Swiss. So called, as it resembled a typical Swiss wooden building. It was one of only a few places 'teenagers' could meet. Another was the Tarantella on the A23 towards Norbury.

A memory of Croydon in 1959 by Sylvia Fowle Ne Williams

In 1959 I was a poultry student at Durham school of agriculture (Houghall) on the out skirts of the city. I lived at the college for nearly a year. My memories of my time there and times spent around the city are still fresh in ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1959 by Jimmy Perryman

As a school girl I have delicious memories of the forbidden coffee bar in Darlington Street. I remember it was downstairs, or is that now muddled with a thousand other coffee bars? It was dimly lit and had an amazing machine ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton in 1959 by Ann Atherton