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Was stationed at R.A.F. Stanbridge as my first posting out of RAF Cosford (Boy Entrant 20th) in May 1955. Lived at RAF Bletchley and travelled to and fro by gary to Stanbridge. Moved up to Stanbridge the following January and lived in the RAF block, one for the men and one for the WRAFs. Have a lot of happy memories of that time both of Bletchley and Leighton Buzzard. Went back to visit Stanbridge about 5 years ...see more
With big hugs from waiting family on one of the many platforms that was Central Station, we hurried though the noise and clouds of steam towards the station exit and into the sunlight...my eyes gazing in wonderment at all the the grand buildings, trams and bright yellow trolly buses, we had nothing like it in our Hampshire town, our railway station had but two platforms and ...see more
Does anyone remember Charlie's exchange mills? It was C. HIRSTS & SON.
I am trying to trace June who worked in the offices.
June.
Yup, I think it was called Parkers (or was it the one in Palmers Green?).
The journey up to and across London to King's Cross Station in 1944 for a 4-year old boy was exciting enough, but our adventure had only just begun. Holding my mother's hand tightly, we searched carriage after carriage for our seats on the packed but magnificent steam engine that was to take us at breakneck speed to Newcastle and the safety of my nana's house in Stanhope ...see more
I remember going to the woods to collect a christmas tree, it was so tall we had trouble getting into the big oak door.
Mr & Mrs Rix and their family lived in the lodge.
I think it was about 1986 when I moved to Horton, I was around 7 years old. We only moved from Wraysbury Road near Staines but it may as well have been 500 miles, leaving all my friends that lived all along the road to moving to Horton. There wasn't that many kids in Horton back then. We moved into the house next door to the Five Bells pub, a large detatched 4 bed house, it felt like a mansion house. Darlaron was ...see more
My maiden name was Wood. We lived at Cuckoo Hill, I just wonder if that was our father's VX. I have spoken to my brother Richard who thinks it's possible as they were so very rare in those days. My brother Richard use to run the youth club down the road from the church. He did it conjuction with his school friends from Johns Lyons School, Martyn Potts, Graham, Johns Coles and some others. He is ...see more
Us Ainslie's remember 'the Apters', who was the 'jockey' in the family? Was it Eric Apter senior? Who was Michelle Apter, my bro was in !! love with her when we were kids.
I remember it well, we fought to get a single cabin instead of what we called the Monkey Cabin at the end which was the communal cabin where people finished up going home wearing something they didn't arive in, but the pool was great, there was a diving board and a spring board then even though the depth was only 6 ft deep. When Sam came to open the iron gates outside there would be ...see more
My memories of Waterperry are all happy ones, my granmother Mrs Sparkes lived at no 4, the house was built in 1921, and my mother lived there as well, so some of the memories are from what she told me and some are from myself. As for what my mother told me, she as a child did not have it all easy in the school summer holidays, she once told me that she used to dread the school holidays as she had to go stone ...see more
Margaret Forrester, what number did you live at? I lived at number 19, I can't remember you, I can remember the Maguires. I had a brother Keith that would be about your age, what was your surname then?
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My dad used to drive the speedboat, I used to go for rides as a child, it used to seem so fast. All the holiday makers used to scream, it was great fun. I used to help with the beach ponies and donkeys in the summer holidays. Has anyone got any memories to share?
My dad was taken suddenly from our home one day when I was at school. I returned home to find my elder sisters and mother in a state of distress. They told me daddy was in hospital and that we would all have to have an x ray and injections. A man in white overalls came and sprayed all my dad's clothes and also his cup and plates. That was the beginning of 6 years of visiting Milford ...see more
I was born 16 Violet Road in 1960 and lived there up until 1970 when we moved up to Church Road (dead posh). As a kid I played on the 'Matchy' where all my mates learnt how climb and on the 'Rella' where the kids from Lily Road had a football pitch in between the two railway lines that ran to the docks. Happy days when everyones front door was left open and everyone in the street was your 'Auntie' or 'Uncle', we also had summers!
I started school at the age of five following in the footsteps of my brother John and sister Pam and walking each day to school from Quarr Lane, sometimes we used the footpath starting at Frogmore farm and coming out above the football field which was in the field next to the Council houses. Mrs Smith was the infant teacher and Mrs Hurst the senior teacher. I remember my mum taking me to the dentist that came to ...see more
I used to live above our shop, "Luff's" the grocers. My bedroom window looked out onto the clock tower. I spent many hours looking out of that window watching people going by and watching the activities around the clock tower. I believe we lived there from about 1948, I left in 1959, but the shop is still owned by my brother.
I remember going to see an old family friend who lived in one of the houses on Chipping Steps. His name was Fred Cook. Fred was a very good friend of my dad's family (the Topps) who used to run Macfisheries on Market Street. My father Michael Topps, well his father Ernest and mother Norva, ran the business which is now a charity shop. Tetbury I call home even though I was not born there but my ancestors were.
I was born at Trevalyn Manor in August 1953. I have returned to The Golly these last few years for short holidays and still love the place. Does anyone know when the place closed as a maternity hospital? A lot of people will remember my brother David (Dai) Williams who is 12 years older than me. He has been asking about old school friends and neighbours, so if anyone can remember him we would love to know.
I have very happy memories of working at this hotel many years ago but have lost contact with the friends I had there. My first introduction to good food was from Bill the chef, and his daughter Yvonne made delicious puddings. She became a good friend and her family took care of me when I most needed it. I was also bridesmaid to Sue and Andrew, she too became a friend. I think it was one of the better ...see more
This is categorically Mid Holmwood.
An old pond just up from Bonds Pond that is now filled in.
I was a boarder at Beauclerc School in the 1950s and remember Miss Garlic and Miss Walters. Miss Garlic did everything - stoked the boiler (called Robin), looked after us, taught, issued the bills and weeded the garden. She kept tortoises and made the papers when she hatched some. The tree was a most beautiful old weeping beech, not a willow, which had a huge skirt under which we were forbidden to go. But we ...see more
Around this time a fire destroyed much of the Imperial Hotel which was, then, owned by Trust Houses. The previous year (1970 on the 6th of March) The Moorland Hotel, Haytor, was also much destroyed by fire. This started at midnight - a fact of which I am fully aware as I was the manager of the hotel – also owned by Trust Houses. It occurred during the police annual dinner which was taking place at the ...see more
My Aunt Clarice and Uncle Keith Symes live in Micheldever in the early 1960s, I used to go there on holiday, I remember going to the river and collecting cress off the water, there was tons of it. I believe they lived in the Forge, I believe Keith's father and brother worked in the smithy.
Does anyone remember Bryn Row in Treboeth, Swansea? I was born there just after the Second World War. My parents were Tom and Lily Evans, my brother Len was 12 when I was born. We moved to Penlan in about 1948. I have a vague memory that the cottages were halfway up the hill from Brynhyfryd Square. I have been trying to find a photo but no luck so far.
I too was a boarder for just one year, along with my two younger sisters Linda and Angela. One night Angela was ill - do you remember? To call the sisters you had to pull the bell rope on the landing. Sister Lawrence always seemed so strict but underneath I think she was a big softie, Sister Bernard well, she was strict but Sister Rose was the worst and such a beautiful face too!! As boarders we had to ...see more
My mother was a niece of Donald Stewart (her father "Charles Stewart's" brother) She remembers being driven in his treasured Rolls Royce when she was a child.
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My parents owned a confectioners at 5 High Street Cheshunt in 1959 known as R.A Press. I had been born in 1955 at 16 Sidney Road in Waltham Cross, a house my parents purchased in 1950, and my grandparents lived at 55 Northfield Road. They were John & Margaret Press.
My mum and dad Ronald Arthur Press and Irene Elsie Crow married 17th Dec 1949 at the Holy Trinity Church. I think my grandparents had moved ...see more
I was born in Widnes in 1934 and lived on Lowerhouse Lane until I married in 1965.
Then went with my wife, Shelagh, to live on Elkan Road before moving to Lowton in 1967 and then to Sheffield in 1971.
Memories of Widnes include dancing at Everite, playing cricket for West Bank and Peter Spence. I visit Widnes fairly regularly.
My memory bank has been activated by the contributed items about Hugh Bell Central School, though my recollections of Hugh Bell are older than those published on this website. My years at Hugh Bell were 1938 to 1942 and so my memories have had many years to fade and I’ve been living on the far side of Canada in the beautiful Okanagan Valley since 1948.
Most of the teacher’s names have ...see more
Not wishing to sound pedantic, but (with reference to another 'memory' posted about this photo) I'm pretty sure the photo shown is of the cottages on Old Village Road Barry, and not buildings adjacent to Cadoxton school which is a few miles away. These cottages are still in existence though I think one or more may now be slated not thatched.
or around there-ish. Always got sent to Wandsworth on Wednesday afternoon if anyone needed anything from the shops - Wandsworth High Street shops closed on Thursday afternoons - Battersea shops on Wednesday afternoons. Guaranteed my sister would run out of cotton, or something similar and I would get sent to get it. Didn't mind - 170 and 44 went to Wandsworth.
I come from Battersea, SW London. My mother sent me to Barrow Hill School when I was 8 years old, I stayed there for 3 years. We lived in dormitories. The head master at that time was Mr Churchill. I had a nice time there, sports day was good. My mother used to come and visit me. There were places there where we used to venture out. The army used to leave all their ammunition lying around, it was ...see more
My most vivid memory of Hengoed Viaduct was when I travelled by train over the viaduct (Hengoed High Level) to Stoke on Trent in the summer of 1961. The whole family went and we stayed at my father's step-brother's home in Burton on Trent.
That viaduct crossing on the train was absolutely breath taking when you looked down the valley and beyond. I have since ridden across ...see more
Valence Park swimming pool I remember always being cold. It cost a couple pennies in old money, cup of oxo and a thick biscuit, and the old changing sheds by the pool, 2 foot gap top and bottom of door, freezing, haha. The noise in there - I can still hear it now. What fun we all had, I also remember the bandstand, and Sunday am people reading their Sunday papers, just relaxing, good times.
My name is Bryan Cole, I ...see more
icecream bike box...tonys.....came..corona lorry came ..orange pop tizer...cherry ade.........prefab 1951/2....garden out back......shed coal......little fire living room....gas fridge..fitted tin doors kitchen table folds up......museums have prefabs now to go in....little fire close glass doors in living room..2 bed toilet bathroom..........beginning tv..bbbc 3pm kids look mother 15 mins ...see more
I was posted to the RAF radar unit in Hawthorne from 1954-1955 and had some of the happiest memories of my service in Easington Colliery. We attended most of the dances in the Welfare Hall after having coffee in Moscardininis? cafe. I was particularly friendly with Eileen Quinn who lived in the Station Hotel and often wondered what happened to her. Everyone in the village was so friendly and there was ...see more
I used to go to Montecleffe girls school from 1956 untill 1959. It was an all girls school then with the toilets outside and they were wooden seats! Mr. Davey was the care taker. My teacher in class one and two was Miss. Swain and in clases 3 & 4 it was Miss. Bibby. She was a strict old woman. Her house adjoined the school.
I was born in 1946 and spent the first 3 years living in a curved un-insulated "nissen" hut next to the gunsight in Adel. We then moved to 71 Raynel Way in 1949.
I attended Cookridge School and used to walk up Farrer Lane, on my own, even in the dead of winter with snowdrifts bigger than myself. We were told never to go on the embankment of the reservoir, 3 of us did one day and were caught ...see more
The name of the pond is Four Ways Pond. My family have lived around Holmewood for centuries. There are indeed four ways leading from the pond, hence the name, simple really.
My grandparents William and Lilian together with their 5 children lived at The Lodge, Chiselhampton. William was head gardener employed by Sir Charles Peers until his death 22.9.42 aged 58, Lilian died 18.10.74, her 86th birthday. They are both buried in St Katharine's Churchyard, Chiselhampton. William was a special constable. I have a ...see more
I was really shocked but pleased to find this photo - it is of my mum and nana in 1955 on Scunthorpe's High Street - we lived in Allanby Street. I was 10 years old when this picture was taken - it has brought back fond warm memories thank you - Linda.
Well, I was born at no 54. My godparents lived at no 56. Mum taught at the village school (Ingrave Johnstone Primary) and I was a May Queen's Attendant in 1970. And I remember we had a float for the Brentwood Carnival, it must have been a nursery rhyme theme as my brother and I were Jack and Jill!
I spent most of my summer holidays in Cefn Mawr at my Nain's. Most of my late mother's family came from Cefn and a lot still reside there. I have such happy memories of Sunday morning walks on the river bank with my uncle and his dog. Millions of memories of playing in the river at Newbridge where my late uncle was the river bailiff. When older calling for a cocoa in Louise's cafe on the main street. Gone ...see more
My memories of Oving are wonderful to me. My parents Jock & Maggie McLintock owned the Butchers Arms from about 1961 to 1966 or 1967, I may be wrong but sometime around then. The pub has very fond memories for me. There were darts competitions and various other activies my parents undertook for the villagers. It was a wonderful village, I went to the primary school down the lane next to the Black Boy ...see more
Approx 1955 my mum was a housemother, Pam Parkinson. We went to school in a white double decker bus and scrumped in the farm, fished in the creek down the hill. I want to contact boys who were living there at the time. Good memories. My sister and dad were there as well. We are in Australia, mobile 0418120229.
I first started work for Colliers Cabinet Makers in School Lane and as an apprentice I had to go for the cakes and biscuits at a bakers shop in Silver Street which was situated just around the corner from School Lane. When this picture was taken, I was in the Merchant Navy and when on leave, regularly purchased a suit from Burtons' "Fifty Bob Tailors', which is just in view to the extreme right. The street ...see more
The bakehouse was a regular visit for us on Saturday mornings - when we used to go to the morning picture shows - and we would call in to buy freshly baked crusty rolls to eat during the film, but were usually consumed long before we got to our seats. The picture still shows the roading with its cobbles still in place.
My family from many generations back have liven in Woolton and Gateacre. I grew up in a house opposite the English Rose pub and went to Out Lane primary school. We spent our summer days playing in the orchard by Watergate Lane, in Quarry St swing park, Woolton Woods and Camp Hill and School Lane swing park. We learned to swim at the tiny Woolton Baths and I think I read every book in the childrens dept of ...see more
My name is Leslie Gale. My mum and dad moved into the house along Treacle Bolly in March the 7th 1947 and a week later we were flooded out. Does anybody else remember this flood as several bridges were washed away? We moved out of this house in 1950.
I am trying to research a Thomas Wilkinson b 1803 in Audenshaw, married a Maria of Buxton, he was an Innkeeper in the 1820s and 1830s when several of his children were born. The 1841 census states that he is a Soda Water driver (assumption that he no longer was an Innkeeper). Perhaps if I knew the names of the Public Houses I could do further investigation.
By, this photo brings back memories. I lived at the then British Legion Club from 1951 to 1958 while my mother and father Jack and Mavis Harding were club steward and stewardess. I started school there in 1951 and it has great memories for me, it was a great time with Langold Lake nearby in its prime. I still think of my old school mates sometimes, and even though I was young I can still remember some of ...see more
My dad knows of the chocolate box, in fact it is believed his mother May Ellis owned or managed it at this time - she had three children, two boys and one girl - does anyone remember May Ellis or her sons Harry Ellis or Jim Beech? Also my two aunts and an uncle from the Beech family ran a sweet manufacturing place and may have supplied sweets to the shop. Dad still has lots of memories of Farncome and some funny stories to tell.
1943! The year I was born, where I lived and was brought up at my grandparents' shop,
'S W Pearce & Son'. I went to school in Downderry and Antony, then later Liskeard Grammer. On leaving school, I worked in the family business, followed by 30 years in Plymouth. My parents retired in the mid 1980s, and moved to the Barbican, Looe, after selling the business. My father, Donald, died in 1990, my ...see more
A few of my happy memories of living here in Kirkley Cliff opposite the Putting Green, went to school at was Alderman Woodrow Sec/School helped paint a fishing boat scene in the entrance, days on Trawlers /Drifters as a tea boy trying not to get the mugs full of sea water, having a great time on the Elec Boats in Kensing Gardens, learning to play bowls, fun on Claremont Pier, roll the ball, horse ...see more
I lived at 13 Belmot Stret, I went to the tin school in the 1950s, the headmaster was Mr Munie, he used to have a leather strap in his office. I have a picture of when I was playing for the football team when we won the league. I also played for the cricket team. I remember Bobby Ray, his dad ran a bookies from his backyard. My father was a window cleaner for the area. My friend's father was also a window cleaner, ...see more
Did anyone attend the 'old' Beauclerc School in Sunbury-on-Thames? I was there in the 1940s when Miss Clara Garlick was the headmistress and Miss Walters was the Principal. There was a beautiful weeping willow in the gardens. I was a boarder there and there were a few day pupils from the village. The old school has been demolished and there is now a modern school in its place. One of my ...see more
I met my wife Jean Izon in Streetly, she was born in Bridle Lane. There was a holiday camp for children from Walsall right opposite. A church and housing estate now occupy the site [Bridle Wood]. Her father was the local coal merchant [he wore a suit on weekdays] and they had a phone in the house [strange to a boy from Walsall[. We were married by the Rev Alan Holt at All Saints Church in 1966. We are ...see more
My dad's mum lived in Fowler Street in 1901 aged 5 years old, her name was Frances Ann Coulson. She was married to a David Taylor in June 1914. Their son was my father, called Charles Henry Taylor. I am Joyce Collins, nee Taylor. I am doing the family tree, can anyone out there help me to trace family members living today, who may have old ...see more
I am Frank and Dorothy Ebbs's eldest daughter, sadly both deceased now, mum died last May; I lived the first 5 years at Manor Farm, Shenley Church End and then we moved to Manor Haven just beyond the Almshouses; Used to help dad on his milkround; used to love helping him bottle the milk; I do wonder if there is any spare land with no buildings on it in Shenley Wood.... the greatest of memories. ...see more
Hi Joan, I remember you and your family, many times we met on the various walks around Digmoor, you with your mum dad and sister, me with my mum and dad, indeed these were good times. I lived further down Grimshaw Lane surrounded by fields and pathways. I too attended Digmoor school with such happy memories of Freddie Holmes, the best teacher that I ever knew. I still see Miss Bond, another teacher, at Upholland church at the eight o clock service on a Sunday morning. So nice to hear from you.
Hi there, I just started doing my family tree, found out that my grandfather was born in Quainton, lived at North End. My great-grandfather was killed by a horse in 1905 working on a local lord's land. I am trying to find out which estate he worked on. 1911 census finds great-grandmother Louisa living in North End and working as a servant. Great-grandfather was buried in the churchyard at Quainton.
I was born in Wimot Road in 1939 at the Maiden Lane end. We lived there until 1948 when we moved to Willow Road where I lived until I got married in 1961.
We moved to Temple Hill after a couple of years at Downs Farm off of Fleet estate. I worked in and around Dartford all my young life.
I did start at Westhill School for a few months under Mrs Parsons. I then went to the National School half way up West Hill.
Does any one remember me - Ted Stock?
Hi Geoff, yes I was on the Longleat Estate in the 1960s, only for three years, I was gamekeeper, on the Corsley side of the Estate. Mr Minter owned the shooting rights over the Estate, with Mr Bill Buckett retained by Lord Bath to manage the deer herd in the park, and the lakes around Longleat House,. I started work at Longleat a few months before the lions arrived. After working for Mr Minter for one ...see more
I am tracing family history. I would like to know who was running the Post Office in that year in 1948?My mother Marjorie Edna Webber was an assistant there. I also have family memories of Mattie and Percy Allinson who I used to stay with. My father and his brother used to stay and help at Allinsons farm on Cove Road in the early teens and twenties of the twentieth century. My mum and ...see more
We spent many lovely holidays here and my lasting memory is of our first job was to race down to the beach and see 'Dick' Davies and sort a beach hut for our 2 weeks stay, they were a little piece of calm when the weather was rough, plus a place to keep all the beach bits not needed to be lugged up the slope. As we got older Claire and me would sit in there watching the world and the local 'lads' go past. I can ...see more
This was around 1968 and I lived in 21 Millfield Lane. I got auld Mrs Bradney's downstairs flat and me Nanna lived in No. 25, so nice and handy to pop in for a cuppa and a chat as me Ma 'n Da 'n two sisters had moved to Pegswood, Morpeth, through me Da being transferred from Loughbride drift in Callerton to a mine in Ashington.
There was a lucrative company in Millfield/Newburn, the Neolith factory. It had a top factory ...see more
My 2 brothers and myself lived in Griffydam, my name is Hilary, my 2 brothers are Brian and David, we were the Sharpe family. My dad Frank worked at New Lount Colliery, my mum Ena stayed at home to bring us up. We played in the fields near Kidgers pond, the meadows, the counries and Griffy Well, life was wonderful, we spent many hours playing. We went to the Sunday School every week and the primary ...see more
Does anyone know of a George Frazer/Fraser who lived in Acomb. I think he was a butcher and was good friends with my mum. Any information Thanks
I remember Stambridge Mill very well. My Father, Frank Sutton, used to moor his barge, called The Anglia, here. He used to load his barge with Corn and Wheat. I was around 7 or 8 at the time and we used to travel with him to deliver the corn. I remember a sweet shop being there and we used to buy candy bars, and if the bar had a stripe through it we got a free one. We lived in Sutton Court Drive, Rochford. My name then was Rita Sutton.
A unit of The Army Cadet Force was formed in Farmborough, with headquarters at Bath, about ten or a dozen lads joined. The National Service was then still operating, which us lads expected to be called into, being a cadet would hopefully give us a head start when we expected to be called up at eighteen.
Each year Farmborough held a Carnival, which most folk looked forward to, they would dress up as all sorts of ...see more
We were happy and dirty, playing in the streets, making rafts out of lollipop sticks after the rain with mud, going the the old rec park to watch a Punch and Judy show, also playing in the sand pit where I lost my shoes, went home barefoot, mum went mad. Having days out with aunty's cousins etc to Drinkwaterpark. Went to New Windsor School 1956 - 1963, loved Miss Rennie and Mrs Jackson. On to Clarendon High 1963-1964 ...see more
I too went to Oak Bank Open Air School and remember Miss Bremner well - she seemed to be particularly kind to me, but maybe she was to all the charges in her care! I remember in particular the camp beds put out on warm days on which we had to rest for an hour. Also, on birthdays we could choose who we wanted to sit with and were given a birthday cake. Not all memories are good. I was given an Easter ...see more
We lived at Bury Meadows Farm, Roading Brook Road, Harwood near Bolton Lancs, by the time I'd written that down everybody else had been waiting ages at Bradshaw School.
My sister Janet and I had many happy years at Bradshaw School with our cousins, John and Margaret Dewhurst who lived at Springfield on Roading Brook Road. Mr and Mrs Barker ran the school as headteachers. My first teacher was Miss Ivel. I ...see more
I lived and went to school at Farmborough, I started school at five years old, my first teacher was Miss Leakey, who later married and became Mrs Smith, two things I remember about her, she had one arm, but was quite strict, anyone not paying attention would be brought back in line by her holding your chin and shaking it, needless to say, we did not play her up very often. Mr Barratt was the ...see more
Circa 1954 my dad worked with three other men employed by Louth Council on either the rebuild or refurbishment of the top spire of the Market Hall tower. I have about 10 photos taken at the top of the tower during this process. They are available to anybody interested.
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My mum used to take me to Rhere for a Birthday Picnic every March 28th , when I was a small boy , so either the weather has changed or I'm as hardy as a Gypsy!
The Blue Lagoon at Battlesbridge was a very small nightclub. I worked there on a Saturday evening as a waiter in the restaurant. The other waiter was Bernie Wright, and we were both students at Southend Catering College. The kitchen was run by one of the lecturers at the College whose name I forget. I remember that Keith Skues from Radio Luxembourg was a gust DJ one night.The nightclub was situated on ...see more
I was evacuated from Battersea, South London, in 1944 to a large house named 'Goldcrest' on the Hindhead Road not far from Beacon Hill and have some happy memories of that time although as it was wartime everything seemed somewhat strange. The house was owned by Lord and Lady Freemantle who were extremely kind and hospitable to my mother and to me, giving us several items of furniture and a complete set ...see more
Myself and my 2 sisters and my brother lived in cottages at Hall Road near Aldborough Hall. We all use to walk all the way to Aldborough School in all weathers. My brother's name was Alan and my sisters' names were Ann and Gillian. We had a wonderful childhood. My parents eventually moved to a council house just passed the Black Boys public house. We use to love the fairs that used to come on to the ...see more