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I am the baby in this picture. It was taken in March 1953. My parents met while Youth hosteling and took me with them after I was born. This picture was a postcard sold in Ingleton. I was given one by a man in a cafe there, who my parents used to visit.
It sounds really funny and familiar to hear:: Jezreels, Canada House ( where I went after my daughter was born 1986 !), Littlewoods, Lefevres, Darland Banks - I love it.
I lived in Barnsole Road from 1969 - 1979 and loved all of it. I went o Barnsole Road School - my Mum was a teacher there, Mrs Peatfield- yes she's still alive, now 89 yrs old.!
Then I went to Upbury Manor School, which was great, a new school with ...see more
Living in Langdon Place was a real advantage when attending Mortlake Primary. 2 mins from registration and guess what nearly always late. A real little community on its own where we lived. All my brothers went to the same school with primary and senior school on the same site. Don't think there was a teacher we weren't all scared of at some stage. Remember the head well Mrs Wyatt also Mr Johnson (Scabby to ...see more
Hello,
I am writing on behalf of my mother whose parents lived in Marbury in Northwich at some point up until 1952 I believe.
It is thought they lived at 187 East Park. Her father was an Alkali Labourer and he was called John Morrison and her mother was called Christina Morrison [formerly Christina Lawes].
They had 3 children, John, Sandra [my Mother] and Shirley Morrison.
It is understood Christina ...see more
I was born in Paignton in 1935 in 1 Stafford Rd our house backed on to Queens Park. When I was 6 years old we moved into a flat in 26a Torbay Rd under The Devon General Bus Station. Dellers Cafe was on the opposite corner & I went to dance classes there run by Sybil Jones. i did a lot of concerts in The Palace Avenue Theatre, & entertained the troups during the war years in various venues. I was married in the ...see more
That name brings memories back , I lived on Kent avenue and used to see Teddy in is little hut as a night watchman . Me Derek and Jeff B.loy
Does anyone remember the dance hall over Burtons the tailors spent many an evening there in the early 50s I was working at Firestones on the Great West Road then. Went to Bulstrode school how I hated school couldnt wait to leave. Met My late husband in Lampton park. Does any one remember the bug house cinema as it was called, but it was cheap so often went there. Sorry to say Hounslow has changed so much I havent been ...see more
I have vivid memories of the slippery rock in Vernon Park. Other memories from the park were, the bench in the shelter at the lower entrance, I used to run around on top of the bench. The rhodedendron bushes, they were great for dens. I loved the museum, I think they had a butterfly collection. My dad taught me to ride my two wheeler and to roller skate in Vernon Park.
We lived across from St Paul's church ...see more
MY MUM WAS BORN IN CWMAMAN,HER PARENTS LIVED AT 38 TRENEOL .I THINK THAT IS HOW IT IS SPELT THOMAS AND WINIFRED OWEN..MUM DAD MY SISTER BROTHER AND I SPENT SCHOOL HOLIDAYS STAYING WITH THEM. WE USED TO GO TO THE SMALL SWEET SHOP RUN BY MARION, SADLY BOTH MY PARENTS HAVE PASSED AWAY. AS THEY WERE MARRIED IN ST JOSEPHS CHURCH WE ARE GOING TO VISIT AND SCATTER BOTH THEIR ASHES IN THE AREA SOON. DIANE ROGERS
My family came back from Australia in 1952. We were housed in the old R.A.F camp in Forest Rd. In the fine weather we walked across the fields that ran at the back of the camp to Failop School, Fencepiece Rd. After a year we moved to Greenwood Gardens next to the school . In the junior school I remember one teacher Mr Penny.
I went to the secondry school in 1955. I remember with fond memories the head master Mr ...see more
In March 1940 we came to live in Gerrards Cross. The school which my parents chose for me was called "Oakend". in Orchehill Avenue, I think. Two ladies, Miss Hitchcock and Miss Salmon, owned the school and taught us, with the help of a younger Assistant teacher.
One abiding memory is of the gravel covered play area, and the consequent grazed knees !
We went to a shared playing field for team ...see more
I joined the Guide Company, the 1st Chalfont St.Peter Company, but this soon had to be divided, so that the 3rd. C.St.P. was also running in the village The 2nd, C.St.P. was at "The Colony". Is this still in existence? I remember learning that Epilepsy was a condition with which people learned to live .. Each Guide in the Company had a partner, to watch over. If a girl had the ...see more
As a family we moved to Dingley when I was 6. I could not speak a word of English, but soon picked it up thanks to the friends I made at school. I have fond memories of Miss Kaddick who ruled with a rod of iron! My best friend at the time was a girl called Beryl Hart,I often wonder where she is now. We moved back to wales when I was 9 and have never been back, but I still remember my time at that school I would love ...see more
The Perry family owned 2/3 businesses on Mill Street, but the corner building on the left, at the corner with the over- hang was run (owned?) by my step grandfather Samuel Perry in the 1930's/ 40's, maybe even either side of these dates. My father, William (Bill) Hales told how as a single man, along with friends they would pay to play snooker in the room above the shop. His sister twins, Edith and Phyllis Hales would serve ...see more
My mother and I were evacuated to Dacre Banks in 1941 when I was only 1 year old. We stayed until I was 4 and my first memories are at Dacre Banks. We lived on a farm just outside the village, where we had to walk up to the railway line, cross the line and then the farm with two houses was on the right. We lived in the first house and my first memories are of the farm. The kitchen had a 'stable' door where ...see more
My dad Ralph broster was born in irby 1927 at corner farm (which is now the library ) my grandfather (pop) William (Bill)Broster ran corner farm caves farm & manor farm . Dad always used to tell me all intresting stories of growing up in irby there is still living there to this day 1 of which has the wood yard on the corner x
I remember the Anchor & hope very well, it was back in about 1973 when Dallas Bullen's father was the landlord, me and some mate's had been drinking in the public bar, and i left a brand new cardigan, that my mother had taken week's to knit,behind. Several week's went by before i remembered where i had left it, so i went back to the pub to ask if anyone had put it behind the bar for me, to my amazement, there ...see more
We moved to Stoke Rd Blisworth 1975 six new houses were built opposite the post office,Mr & Mrs Freestone lived across the road they made us very welcome on one occasion Mr freestone removed a window when my wife locked herself out leaving our two month old son in the house,I cycled into Northampton Town center all hours of the day and night for work purposes and would take our baby along the towpath of ...see more
Is there anyone out there who remember a farm called Woolmongers Farm at Nine Ashes. It was built over by a new estate at sometime. Anyone remember it and if so do you have any memories of it or he Chalkley family who lived in it?
I spent many hours in the park, not just playing, but the Scout Hut was there too. It was a wooden building with gas mantle lighting and a coke stove for the winter. In the summer the windows, which had metal bolted shutters over them, were opened to let natural light in. During the winter, you would arrive and it was like being in a freezer until the coke stove warmed the place up. We had a lot of fun there. Eventually, ...see more
This image shows Longmore Garage in the foreground. My friend Terry Stokes did his apprenticeship there. I spent many hours hanging out there and helping if I could. We also used their spark plug cleaner for cleaning the spark plugs that got fouled up on our Lambretta scooters. Charlie was the head mechanic, manager and was a master at panel beating and bodywork.
Andrew Taylor
Light Hall high School for Boys until 1969
Now living in Toronto Canada
Mawney Road School 55
Pettits Lane 55 to 59
Married 64 at Good Shepherd Church
Mildmay Road and Oaks Avenue
Worked at Grenvilles Men's Clothing on the Eastern Avenue
Maiden Name Cummings
Loved my teenage years. Enjoyed school, teachers I remember are Miss Henn MrsHounsell Mrs Rogers Nimbus dance hall every Sat night, Wykham Hall next to St Edwards Church, dancing of course! Loved RaphaelsPark in the ...see more
I attended Brandon High School and our Rector was Mr Neill. (Otherwise known as Wee Bud).
My mum ran the raga muffin second hand shop in the satisfied from 1971
It was relocated when the new saimsbury a was opened in the mid eighties. I remember elliot butcher shop in West Street and the fish shop in swan street. Wales the ironmongers and woollies. Also bonnell and Curtis electrical. Happy memories
I remember getting pregnant in early 1966 I was living and working in London I had a one night stand with a famous person out of a famous band he went back to America and said he would send for me but never did. I ended up in this mother and baby home had my daughter in December 1966 I remember having to stay there fir Christmas and new year I called her Pamela after Wayne Fontana song. She was taken ...see more
Between late 1940 and 1944, my Father Andy Taiano and his best mate Ted Young , were the camp barbers.They gave the new recruits their first haircuts for king and country! He moved from S.E.London with my Mother,shortly after his Parents, Sister and foster Brother were killed in an air raid in Walworth S.E. London. In 1944,he returned to London with the American red cross. He recalled once,that,they ...see more
I certainly remember your name, is it the high school you are referring to or flaxely road.. .Steve Fawcett flaxely road school 1960 - 1965 Selby high 1967- 1970
I remember the Queen riding through Wheatly Hill and the flag waving. It was 1960 so I was 4 at the time. I remember trudging through the snow along a main street to go to school - this must have been Wheatley Hill school and I remember the name Mrs Hartnell ?? Perhaps she was my teacher. I also remember sitting in the school hall, I think listening to 'watch with mother"? So many memories have been ...see more
In the summer of 1960 I spent my Westminster Hotel School holiday working at The Pier Hotel in Seaview, Isle of Wight, mostly working in the dining room (that white windowed section protruding on the left).
Funnily, I don't recall much of the working part of the summer. I don't think it was very enjoyable and, as a first year student, I hadn't had much experience and had not yet fulfilled the restaurant ...see more
I was at The Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow in 1954 as I was suffering from rheumatic fever. I was taken there from Ramsgate General Hospital with another girl from Cyprus who also had the same disease.
It was a Research Hospital I believe so I remember we had various tests done for research into the disease and I had a special diet for a week consisting of baked beans and salt free bread and ...see more
My family lived on Mountview Road N8, from 1959 until 1971.
We were blessed with a ground floor flat with cellar, in an old Victorian House at ,No. 35.
We were opposite the reservoir, so had a wonderful view over London.
I also remember clambering down the grassy hill by the railway track on one side of our road, to watch the very last steam train go by.
Being on a hill, I recall ...see more
Can anyone please job my memory where the old indoor Swimming Pool was? It was very small and old and crammed but I remember it being off down a narrow lane somewhere at the bottom of the High Street or was it in Castle Street? This would be circa 1960 -1965 please?
does anybody remember Birkenhead north end in the 50s&60S. I lived in Alwen street from 1945 till1970.I enjoyed my childhood there,playing allsorts of games kick than can the allyo football cricket anything you could play we played it Ilchester square was a meeting place for lads and girls from the river streets.The square was a block of 3&4 story flats,a thing that used to amaze me in the square was ...see more
My childhood was a very unhappy one from the age of 7 until I left home at age 19. I had a very abusive stepfather and a compliant stepmother and it is a wonder that I came away with any moments of joy to look back upon ! In order to survive ( and that's all it is)I sought out any opportunity, most of which involved some relatioship with nature.
My stepmother's parents lived in tne North End, on ...see more
Does anyone have memories or knowledge or is even a living relative of of Helen Smith (nee Williams) of 81 Avenue Road circa 1957 possibly lived there until circa 1997.
Any information appreciated.
I remember having spent a few years of my childhood as an evacuee in a place called lea. The address was 4 cross cottages eccels wall lea. My sister also was with me there, it was the most memorable time of my life. The lady we lived with and her Daughter Kitty was very very kind to us. I believe Kitty worked at a store called George masons in Ross on Wye.
I remember walking with other children (who also lived ...see more
I trotted through and round the square in 1955 as I lived at 28 Park Road just off Talbot Square. I attended a ballet school (hidden on the right hand side of shown picture) and if memory served me correctly ballet school was called Stewart School of Dance
I used to live in Mewburn Avenue.My grandparents(Surname:Metcalfe lived at 25).I remember playing in the crematorium.Jumping the ditches and admiring the rose bushes.I also loved crossing over the blue bridge on the way to the local shops.Nan and I used to walk to Bretton town centre.All the memory's and smells at the shops.Visiting the library.Seeingbthe birds and rabbits hanging in the ...see more
I am Jeannette McNicol (nee Elliott). My brother John and I moved there with my parents ,when I was 13 years old and he was 12. I had found the house when we were having a picnic by the Webbern with friends. I had gone skipping off down the lane, and seen the house around the corner, and run back to my parents saying "Mum! Dad ! There's a fairy house around the ...see more
My father told me that my great grandfather , William Ratcliffe, worked on the swing bridge over the Manchester ship canal.I have not been able to find any information to verify this. I would be interested to hear from anyone who has information on this point.
My name is Wayne Lavigne and while I am a Canadian I do have an attachment to Omberseley. My mother is Patricia Pheysey, one of four daughters of Donald Pheysey and Helen Maude Pheysey.
My grandfather's family originated in Stourpourt but after World War 1 he married my grandmother in Birminhgam. They moved to Ombersley not too long after my mother was born, which was 1921. They lived at Shruberry House.
My three ...see more
I have fond memories of being a beater in the late 50s. Major Houston had the shooting, I imagine rented from Airlie Estates or their forerunner. Keepers, dogs and beaters were driven up the Glen on twisting, narrow roads prior to thé construction of the Backwater Dam, in a 1920s vintage shooting bus driven, with much crashing of gears, by the Major's chauffeur, Eddie Thayre. Other ...see more
Winning the first cup in Millwood history ,the hall Caine shield does anyone remember this ?
We came to Cherry Hinton 1960/61
My father somehow acquired renting the old vicarage on a temporary basis as he had just got a new job with Pyes and we stayed there until 1966.
We were a family of 8 Mum Dad 2 sisters 3 brothers
Family name Curtis and I am second youngest Vikki.
The vicarage was a great place to grow up in.I was 5 when I arrived and went to the infants school which was next ...see more
My dad Chic Upstone and relative Dick Rush climbed up the tower to correct the clock for the vicar in the 1950s
my grandparents and great grandparents married in this church and lived in the Stonebow and Pavement area.My great-grandfather and his father sold humbugs in the Shambles market:
I am trying to find out about a person who was evacuated to fovant in September 1941 or there about his name is Joe Williams , I don't no anything about him except when he went to fovant he stayed with a family called Target and they owned the butchers shop in fovant , he also joined the church choir . in1952 mydadRonald Braybrook bought the butchers shop from the Target's and my dad also played the organ in the church for ...see more
I lived in King St in the 1950s on the right as you go down the road almost opposite the classic cinema which closed in 1959.
Dimes place above a shop is where my mother and I lived.
From the other side of the world I came across this memory page of Smallfield. I worked at Smallfield Hospital 1966/67 attached to the nurses dining room. Loved working there and the people I met. Unfortunately, I have lost contact with all of them as time moves on. I lived on site and I remember my bedroom window looked out over the fields towards Gatwick Airport. And this bedroom was centrally heated with ...see more
I visited Maidstone Zoo as a child and I think it was during the 2nd world war. I remember the railway track along the side of the driveway but no trains were running. My most vivid memory, and I have never been sure if this is real or remembered from somewhere else and it is of standing on a bridge over a railway line and seeing a train loaded with what looked like bombs. Does anybody know if this ...see more
I remember visiting here with my mother in the early 1950s. My Grandparents Herbert and Nellie Chappell managed the Hotel from around 1913 I think. Does anyone have information that would give me some dates for them ??
I grew up in collyhurst flats 16 winterton road my mam was olive lyons my dad was george lyons I went to st james school then to st oswalds then to the albert memorial I had 2 brothers george stephen lovely memories of whit monday where we always walked dressed in our best dresses mams and dads in the pubs every one knew everyone such happy times
It was Eddie and Eve Rogers. The shop was what is now part of Tony Moss Motorcycles. The Rogers family lived behind the Decorating shop which is also now part of the motorcycle shop.Eve was a big smoker/drinker, I remember going to visit her in her flat at Roden Lodge in Wem in around 1979, just after Roden Lodge was built. She was good friends with my Mum who gave me this info today.
Hi, I was brought up in seaforth vale in the 50,s early 60,s...went to star an St Wilfred's played football for both...anyone in touch with anyone remembers them yrs
I was one of the last pupils that attended the school, before they made St. Catherines the new primary school. It was such an amazing school to go to. When you first went to school you were kept apart in the 1st class and had our meals and toilets completely separate from the main school.
When you moved up to the main school, we then mixed with the rest of the school. Although the boys had their own ...see more
I entered the CRX as a patient in March 1974, ostensibly for 6weeks treatment, but I didn't leave until December 1981. I was under the care of Dr Barbara Ansell and her rheumatology team who specialised in children with arthritis and I grew up in Ward 2 where both boys and girls shared a Nightingale ward until we turned 12 when we were split into single sex wards, ward 3 for the boys/men and ward 4 the ...see more
I am wondering of anybody can share with me any memories or stories about the old cinema and billiard hall at 244 Whalley Road (now Ribble Valley Recliners).
I am using the building for a project at uni and I want to know the local's stories of the building as there is not much information that I can find. I am interested in personal stories, what you remember ...see more
while hop picking with my parents at a farm in paddock wood in the early 1950s
i was badley burnt when a petrol stove exploded farm name not rememberd
spent 6 months in the burns unit at a hospital in east grinstead
i wonder if anybody remembers this event
roy furze
I remember this view like it was yesterday. It is looking east towards Wilsons Corner. On the right is the Arcade and on the left side of the Arcade is a shop called Sacks & Brendalls (might have been Sacks & Brendlaw..). Anyway, I bought a leather flying jacket in there during the late 1960's or early 1970's and guess what....I've still got it and still wear it....!! Well, they never go out of ...see more
i was born at 58 killingworth avenue castlepark backworth i loved it went potato picking with my mam and grandmar loved the ride on the lorry.loved the huge park my teacher was mrs carr she had a huge beehive hair do i was terrified of her .mr vaugne was my favorate. allways used to play in the old areiel shelters in the playing feilds susan fisher
My husband was born in Albert Road, Penarth 1943 and used to speak of loads of old tanks left to rot away in fields. Also some sort of tunnel that was later blocked off. He left there for the Midlands when he was 7 years old and had learned to count to 10 in Welsh. He came to the Black Country and could hardly understand a word of what people said.
The photo of Station Hill reminds me of many happy days spent at my aunts house further down the hill ,she lodged in a lovely house with a balcony across the front owned by a couple Em and Bert who owned an enormous brown and white dog called Sport.I went to Benfleet from 1944 to the early sixties mostly for the summer holidays and freedom to wander were ever I wanted to.Trips by bus ...see more
I left England in 1956, the son of Bill Hubbard, the local blacksmith. I would love to track down Nicholas Campbell, the son of Winnie Campbell, my best friend at the time. Anyone could tell me how to contact him would be greatly appreciated, thanks, Anthony (Tony).
I was 2 ,1941 when we moved into 19 Brakespear road. My father was an engineer at Bristol Aircraft Co. We were bombed out of Bristol and my father was moved underground to Spring Quarry to build Centaurus engines for Beaufighters.I certainly remember the Americans being there as we would go to the Community centre to get little tins of sweets that, think were army rations.
They were good days, Weavern valley a great ...see more
Hello,
we are Alice Phoebe Hannah and Vilma students of the Central Saint Martins University College and we would like to receive any help from all of you that get memories of Rainham to join our exhibition experience will take place in Rainham Hall as soon. Please fell free to contact us at rainhamhallproject@gmail.com to share your memories with us, and we can get them alive in our project. Thanks Alice
Pretty sure that Butler's was the "approved" dealer for local school uniforms - certainly I got fitted out there for my Queen Mary's Grammar School uniform in 1959.
Barry Howard
I remember the Domestic Oil Stores in Barden Road. In the 1940's I lived in Norfolk Road.
They sold all manner of things and there were goods outside, brooms etc. I do remember that two sisters ran the shop and used to see them sweeping the pavement outside the shop. I loved the smell of oil whenever I went inside. Unfortunately that is all I can recall at present.
I attended Belmont School from Nursery right through to Senior. My name was Gill Stokes (now McQuaid), I was born in 1939 and lived at 43 Headcorn Road, Thornton Heath. I know the school has been closed for years but it is great to know that there is still someone out there who remembers it. I sort of remember some of the names of the other pupils, Valerie Stebbing, Ann Stevens (we called her Moggy, don't know why!) ...see more
In the years of early 1960 through the 1970's my mother Iris Beilby was the housekeeper and cook to the High Court Judges when they were in attendance at the courts in Bristol. She had for a number of years attended to their needs when the were on circuit travelling around the country. I spent many happy times helping her to create dishes for these eminent judges and their ...see more
My name is Rob Beilby and I grew up in Durham City from 1937 until 1966. I and my brothers Bryan and Jimmy lived in a pub called the "Angel Inn" at the top of Crossgate from 1937 until 1945 with our grandparents and mother, our dad was gone in the army to North Africa.
I remember Dimambros being in Claypath near the Big Jug public house and was a favorite stop off for the ...see more
Used to get the bus to Park North around the corner on the left.
I remember straight ahead of you there was a shop that sold Tobacco it had a statue outside.
We moved from London into a flat above the shops and when Baileys the newsagent opened I worked there. It was whilst I was working there that I met a guy called Allan Cole (who was the first Head Boy in Albury Manor School) and we have been married now for 53 years. So yes we have many, many great memories of Merstham.
I remember once a year (c1961) a man used to ride on horseback from Rochdale to Norden dressed as John Wesley (or his brother?) and he used to go up to Bank House Farm where there was the original pulpit from when one of the Wesley brothers preached way back when. I am sure the pulpit will still be there and sure the building may be a listed Grade II, but no idea. I will bet though that this custom of the man riding into Norden has gone .
Anybody remember this? Jane Heywood
I remember making the journey back and forth from our home in northumberland to visit my grandmother who was housekeeper here in I think (late 60s). Florence humble a little lady with a blue rinse! I remember as a child of 10-11 the ropes outside and the wooden stair rails. But most of all I remember always walking around the lake before tea. Beautiful place.
I am not sure whether Baileys Pit Farm is the same as I remember a large old house just called Baileys Pit.
During the early 1980's, I worked for a company, H J Chapman based in Ledbury and the sales director (John Bailey) purchsed the house in Monmouth. It wasnt until his wife went into town to do the shopping that she noticed that there were postcards on sale in many of the newsagents showing her house as "the most haunted house in Monmouth".
when I was about 8 did stop in the wood at the keepers cottage was very dark
I remember working in the laundry in wey hill for many years when I left my home town of Birmingham, I have some great memories of my days there, starting in the wash room and getting to know everyone there. My Nan was the first of a number of my family to work there. I still remember my old boss Mr Bob Young who became a great friend of mine and we spent many good times in the Red Lion pub having a few ...see more
This garden belonged to the artist Oscar Prentice,who taught me to paint as a small child ,his house and studio can't be seen in this photo ,the gnomes all held fishing rods ,no vandalism in those days .
I remember the lovely fresh bread smell from Aldridges the bakery at the Triagle, the Grove Fish and Chip shop's marvellous rock salmon and chips cooked in beef dripping of course, Killips department store's dumb waiter, learning to dance at the Victor Sylvestor dance school above the Odeon cinema, attending 'Boy Meets Girl' dances at Wembley Town Hall on Saturday evenings, lining the street towards the Stadium at ...see more