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Born in '48, lived in Rugby Avenue Sudbury Town until I was 21. Went to Alperton Sec Mod between '60-66. Great memories from my schooldays... Mr Hostler was Headmaster and some really good teachers: Irving, Parkinson, Sladden and ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Graham Rose

Ho now,s Thomas Bousfield and his wife polly.frederik str number 10 He was a chip bilder and was often in pub ureka at frederik str Pleas let me now and if ther is a foto show me Pleas. GREETZ June bausfield van der zee email adress jrbausfield@hotmail.com

A memory of South Shields in 1943 by June Bousfield

I was in the Gables Boys home from around 1959 until 1963. During my time there I got more beatings than enough from Goslin, I will never forget this man but all memories of him being bad, he was not a nice man. He caned me ...Read more

A memory of Maldon by Peter Martin

My Mum and Dad ran the sweet shop at the bottom of Kentwood Hill from about 1957. 'J.E. Griffin, Bread, Cakes and Confectionery'. I went to The Highlands School until my Dad died in 1962. Then moved to Lawrence Road, off Norcot Hill and ...Read more

A memory of Tilehurst in 1962 by Annie Cator

In 1944, when I was six, bombs dropped at the end of our road in N. Mitcham (Caithness Road) rendering our home, and others, uninhabitable, and after spending one night at Woodland Way Community Hall we were ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1944 by Frances Innes

I remember the austere yellow building as if it were yesterday. There I dreaded the school dentist who was, by modern standards, a butcher. Like Susan's account we also went to the swings after a visit to the dentist although at ...Read more

A memory of Swinton in 1960 by Gordon Williams

Used to get the weekend bread from Dunns the Bakers every Saturday morning.Thought nothing of joining the queue.Also Halls which was nearer to the clockon the broadway Crouch End. What lovely times they were.

A memory of Hornsey in 1953 by Carol Tucker

My Aunt, Lily Hewitt, owned a 19th century greengrocer's shop down on the left side of this view. She and her Husband Frank (who died in the 1940's) had run the shop from well before WWII, and went most days to Manchester ...Read more

A memory of Macclesfield in 1957 by Peter Roberts

My brother (Nigel) and I were in Pinehurst in 1964. I left in 1967 and my bother remained there for three more years. At that time Maurice Goldsworthy was in charge with his wife Elsie and son Neil. ...Read more

A memory of Pinehurst in 1964 by Brian Kemp

I was a young child with my Mother and sibling stranded at Romford Station on the night Harrison - Gibson burned down, after a visit to GrandMa because the power had also been turned off to the overhead power lines on the ...Read more

A memory of Ilford in 1959