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My family moved to Handley in 1947 and I spent the rest of my childhood there. Our family name is Harris and my parents were Drs Paul and Zoe , they had five children. We lived off the road to Deanland. I never could ...Read more

A memory of Sixpenny Handley in 1950 by Nicola Campbell

How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” all ...Read more

A memory of Barrington by masters.clifford2

My family and I moved to a bungalow at Coombe Place in 1960. My father, Walter Motley, took up the post of farm manager on this 100 acre dairy farm with a herd of Jersey cattle. Coombe Place is set on the side of the South ...Read more

A memory of Offham in 1960 by Susan Walton

I was born at 12 Ashwood Avenue on Peel Brow estate Ramsbottom in 1952. My father after being demobbed from the eighth army in 1945 had always and continued to work in cotton mills. In 1960 our ...Read more

A memory of Stubbins by david

I was born to Jewish parents whom had a ladies clothes shop in Kensington Gardens (The Lanes) my Father died in 1941, My Mother now a very young widow decided she wanted us all to live above the shop because of bombs ...Read more

A memory of Brighton in 1930 by Anita Lewis

My family and I, the Oughtons, lived at 53, Wombwell Main Row, a community for miners and their families. My dad worked at Darfield Main pit all of his life up until early retirement in the early 1980s. I have kept in touch ...Read more

A memory of Wombwell in 1967 by Sallie Oughton /Taylor.

I spent the first eleven years of my life in Tottenham. We lived above the PDSA dispensary in Seven Sisters Road. My father worked for the PDSA as a vet, and I remember very clearly the queues of people waiting to have their ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1950 by Jacqueline Dagnall

I moved to Marchwood in the mid 1960s, I was not very old. We lived in an old house on the edge of the village, called Glengarriff. The old house was pulled down many years ago. I attended Marchwood Primary ...Read more

A memory of Marchwood

I was raised on a lovely estate called Thomas Moore estate, it was all new and I always went wandering all around Finchley from Avenue House to Victoria Park in Finchley central to going to school in Friern Barnet. I ...Read more

A memory of East Finchley in 1983 by Karl Paine

My parents moved to Bletchley from London early 1953, they first lived in St George's Road before moving to 35 St John's Road when I made my appearance shortly after Christmas. So much has changed since ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1953 by Alan Webb