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I was born in Queen Charlotte's hospital in 1957 and lived at 139 Estcourt Road for the first 11 years of my life. We lived upstairs and my grandparents Harry and 'Flo Francis lived downstairs. I went to Sherbrooke Road school and so ...Read more

A memory of Fulham by jacqui572011

I used to come to St Osyth every year as a little girl with my family. We stayed a a chalet near the Sailor Boy club. This was from 1965 ish to about mid 70's. The Family consisted of my nan and grandad, mum and dad, ...Read more

A memory of St Osyth by sjonny001

We lived in the Peabody estate. 6M, 13U and finally 4A as the family grew from me to finally 4 children. We were very privileged and had a bath under a table top in the kitchen, originally heated with a boiler, coal ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by John Faulkner

I was born at 12 Lyndhurst Ave Southall on January 1941. My parents moved into this property in the late 30s. I remember a bit of the war when I was about three or four as we had a shelter in the back garden as we ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Eric Wedderburn

Living in Lewisham in what was Engate Street in the late 1950's Peter Pans Pool was to us like a holiday Park and I spent a lot of time there as a child even when we moved to Sydenham in 1960's. ...Read more

A memory of Catford by Rosemary Riddle

I lived in Blackley but spent most of my time walking up and down Factory Brew to visit Grandparents,uncles,aunts and cousins in harpurhey.I went alfred street girls school during the years 1950-1954. I loved the ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey by Janice Allison

I lived at 4 Bungalow ,Christchurch Road which was a prefab Next to the prefab was an old victorian house occupied by the Knights Youth Club I belonged to the cubs at Christ Church A crowd of us used to go to Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by John Newton

My Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother Sarah Frost died in Audley End in 1847 at what I believe to be the Almshouses. The lady who registered the death was called Ann Love who also lived there. Does anyone have any further ...Read more

A memory of Audley End by Margaret Peach

We moved to Sutton in 1956/7, Sutton Court Road, and I attended Sutton East before moving to Worcester Road and then going to Ambleside School in Cheam, then onto the Willows before completing my A-levels at Nonsuch High School for ...Read more

A memory of Sutton by Rita Westlake

I was born in 42 Lindsworth Road in 1960, our house backed onto a cricket pitch which was owned by a local resident who kept it beautifully maintained and at the end of the cricket pitch was the canal or the 'cut' as ...Read more

A memory of King's Norton by Karen Dixon