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I was born in Brentwood in 1947 at the little maternity hospital on Shenfield Common,i moved away in 1970 and have rarely been back.I was talking with a friend who also lived in Brentwood at that time and we tried to picture the high street but as it was in the fifties.Near the old town hall,a little nearer Kings road traffic lights,there was a shop that always had the most wonderful smell of fresh ...see more
I lived only for a few years as a small boy at 10 Hurst Close (part of the Northolt Racecourse estate) but have fond memories of it. We were the Duncans and it would have been from 1969 to mid the mid 70s when we moved to Cornwall. I remember playing in the field behind in the close and in the Dabbs Hill Lane flats. Went to Islip Manor Infants where I remember a Mrs. Perkins, who brought her goat to school one ...see more
My Great Grandfather George Henry Baker (1880 -m1947) was the owner (following his father also George Henry) of the Blacksmith and Scrap Metal Dealer later known as Slades Scrap Yard In Wooburn Green. My Great Grandfather was a big character and very much in the centre of life in the village. An active Freemason, President of the Workingmen's Club and President of the Football Club. Each year he ...see more
Hi, just wondered if anyone remembers my Dad's shop at 126 Tooting High Street, it was situated between Webbs Scrap Metal Merchants and a factory called Sterns, opposite Woodbury Street, This would have been 1950's
I was born in 1A Marsh Lane 1964 think that sweet shop was my nans
My grandfather ran the Nene Inn for Elgoods brewery around 1900 to 1914.
My father was born there in 1903.
Pubs long gone but Elgoods let me have the original name plate .
I was born and brought up here. Lived away for 37 years before retiring back here. Nothing like the Fowey of my childhood, full of people who moved here because they loved it and have never stopped trying to change it to their version of a retirement idle ever since.
I remember going with my granny to what they led the home leagh on a Wednesday in the new road .during the meeting they came round with peas in vinegar . must have farted all the way home .
I remember Mr. Beecham, a lovely teacher who took us for science - but look out if you misbehaved. I would watch fearfully as he dished out punishment. He would take you into a little side room he called his 'cupboard' and tan your behind with a big white plimsole. One day I was caught messing around and it was my turn for the big white plimsole, I was mortified. I was marched into the cupboard with the sound of the ...see more
I hit my 60th birthday at the end of last September. I look back over my life which took a few detours over the years with very fond memories of my primary school life.
I adore my 4 children and great grandchildren and realised fairly recently that St Ann's primary school not only gave me a great start in life but many every day school things from when I was 4 until though to 11 are ...see more
Before the days of Widford Industrial Estate we would walk from Writtle Road to Widford Church. My sister and friends would make rush mats for us to sit on by the river. Hawthorn hedges lined the lane, cornfields on Chelmsford side, and grazing on the river side where horses were kept on the first field. Some Saturdays friendly football matches took place on the middle field where teas ...see more
Pete I remember u m8 u was there when I was I spent 6 weeks in the cooler the cells at one go cos I fought the system I'm not letting them scum that dished out the abuse get away we r coming for them for justice through the courts I remember steve from isle of wite the artist me n steve hung around wid taffy bunion n dribble eye wow what a blast from the past keep ur chin up m8 we will get justice I never forgot what went on there
Hi my name is John Cooper. I was born in 1948 in Etruria street in Battersea. My parents names are Henry ( Harry ) am Jane ( new Shipcott ). I also had a brother, Dennis and a sister Jean. We lived there until 1953 when we moved to Carshalton in Surrey. I have almost nil memories of those times, so I would like to link up to anybody who lived in Etruria street or surrounding area. I believe that this whole area was ...see more
I grew up and lived in Durham Road, Feltham. From 1952 to 1971.
Went to Cardinal Road infants school from 1957 - 1959. 1959 - 1963 Hanworth Road Junior School, 1963 -1967 Lafone Secondary School for Girls. Boundary Road, Hanworth.
My dad was a train driver and we used Feltham Train Station all the time. The entrance then was on the top of the bridge. My Church was St Catherine’s with the beautiful ...see more
We lived in Lower Feltham and the bus took us to Hounslow which was a great place for shopping for the latest clothes...not that I had a lot of money to spend. In 1957 I started a Parke Davis in the Home Sales Dept. as a very junior junior! Their offices were the latest design and the pay was good. £3.76 my first pay packet. They made the toothpaste called Euthymol and I have used it ever since. I am now 78 yrs ...see more
My then boyfriend told me to take the throttle of his 650 Triumph Bonneville - putting eye makeup onat the time I believe - said I’ll have the clutch
. When I say open her up just let her go - so I did! We went over the Blackwater Bridge at ??? Mph. All at the Manor were gobsmacked! Thought we wouldn’t stop in time. But we did - just. I so loved those days.
Also remember the cool dude who I emptied a bottle of ...see more
we lived in a 2 up 2 down mid terrace house on the crags there was 10 kids 2 adults i dont know how thay managed but we had a great time growing up
I remember going into the Book Club while waiting for the bus to go down Crowborough Hill. We occasionally missed the bus if we got too engrossed in a book. We used to get off the bus from Tunbridge Wells and then take another bus that went to Jarvis Brook. We used to get off at the end of Green Lane because we lived near Poundfield Post Office. I remember when the Book Club moved to other premises and ...see more
I have a document saying from 1657 It is addressed to the villagers of Ketton and has the mark of Sarah Morris
My parents bernard and Jackie Jackson lived at 78 kingsley crescent in 1968.
I have memories of collyhurst. My grandparents also lived here. I remember playing on the landing. If my memory serves me correctly I recall a fish and chips shop where you could take a glass dish for chips.
My first memories of life were living in Queen Street after being bombed out of our little house in Morris Street.
My father had to go into the forces December 1941 and my only sibling Amelia had contracted diphtheria and died. She was 3 years older than me and a very pretty child
Despite all that sadness worry and grief my mother managed to make the most of.things and made me feel safe and ...see more
I was born in Battersea in 1938. We lived at 28 Forthbridge Rd near Clapham Common. With my mum and sister, I went to the Granada cinema loads of times on a Saturday night. Often you had to line up to get in and they had these men dressed up in uniforms, even with 3 stripes or 2 on their arms, who used to bawl at you as if you were on a parade ground. We could only afford the 1/6 pence seats but kids ...see more
I have so many clear memories of Gatley Primary.
My mother used to take me by car in the morning, but in the afternoon I walked down Cedar Road to wait at the bus stop. There was a wonderful sweet shop there.
The headteacher was Mr Pearce. He used to have a funny way of saying "Hewld hands!" when we had to walk in pairs to the canteen.
The food was disgusting: I remember telling my mother the ...see more
im looking for any one that lived in Stonehouse Street in the 1960
My father relocated our family back to England from Nyasaland (now Malawi) to Bozeat in 1962 and he became station master at nearby Castle Ashby Station. The 1959 move to Africa ended with the demise of The Commonwealth. When Britsih Railways went through a Beaching transformation, at that time, Dad found our family jobless again, so we tried Australia in 1965 and have remained there, or thereabout, ever since. But Bozeat ...see more
I would ha e been about eight years old when we came to Fairbourne in about1955 there was my mum and dad my three sisters and four brothers we stayed in this lovely Railway camping coach i remember my eldest sister taking me down to see the beach it seemed to stretch for miles the camping coach was lovely i remember it being very close to the main railway line i can still picture the inside of it now we had a really happy holiday there Margaret Gresswell nee walker
The park was called the wreck it was at the top of Langtry road estate
My maternal grandparents ran a hotel/tea rooms in the High st called “Hove to”. I fondly remember our family visits 3 or 4 times a year (we lived in Rutland), a long drive in those days.
I am 62 now and we must have visited from approx 1962 to 1968.
I remember having measles while staying there once and I had to lie in a dark room all day when everyone else was out having fun.
They must have been there ...see more
I was born in White Road in 1951 and went first to the nursery at Grace Road, where I remember a climbing net which was outside on a frame of some kind. It seemed huge. We had little blue camp beds where we all had to have a nap after lunch.
From there I went to Montgomery Street and remember Mrs Askew and Mrs Gorniak. A clear memory I have, is of learning to write on a slate ...see more
after sharing a house with my aunts in broardview avenue rainham in the late 40s we moved to romany road 1950 we were the first family onto the road , only a few houses were up so lots of brick stacks to play in , the top end of sturry way a old steam traction engine was parked in the fields , down sharpes green u,s landing craft lay pulled up on the river banks MTB s were mored out in the river, great place to grow up,
me and my brother drove for the M/D in the mid 1960s at that time a few younger peaple were starting onthe company the money was not very good but we made so menny good friends there and being a young guy the girl conductors were very nice , the canteen was so good a lot of the crews used to have there sunday dinner on there days off gillingham and chatham was a wonderfall place to live, i later drove for reeds paper mill for 40 years .
I arrived in Leek, or more precisely Leek Brook, aged 4 in 1931. Later went to Miss Rainer's school. Father was sales manager at Joshua Wardle (later director). Many happy memories of Leek and its surroundings until I left for the army in 1945, never to live there again. Nevertheless have visited many times, largely because of the railway at Leekbrook which was very close to our house. Memories include the ...see more
in the harbour at Porthcawl there were some times moored two fast patrole boats owned by the Royal Air Force and they were painted in the colours of the R.A.F. Occasionally they would go off on patrol manned by R.A.F crew I have seen them going off on patrol gathering speed as they left the harbour.`That was many years ago as I am now 76 years old and living in Belgium
I was born in South road, Sparkbrook in 1946 and attended Montgomery Street school until age eleven. Mr Brazier was the headmaster, he was wonderful. My first teacher was the lovely Mrs Askew then Miss Gorniak who was very strict. Remember Mrs Cooper, Mr O'Sullivan and my last teacher was Mrs Jones. Very happy times there. Would love to hear from anyone who remembers me. Penny Mitchell nee Gore
For me it is a beginning too.I hope a making of new memories of a great Grandfather I never met,
His name was Thomas Baker he was killed in the Parcslip mines tragedy. I New absolutely nothing about this till today as I've been searching for my Grandfathers family tree,he died at 39yrs.I never New him as he died when my father was 13yrs...
I'm hoping that new light will come forward. It's unbelievable that I have ...see more
I remember this area when I was growing up, my Nan lived in the small block of flats behind the newsagent shop where my sister, brother and I would get sweets from. Behind the wall, in the centre of shot, is a parking area where we would play football and other ball games, just to the base of the flats in the picture was a playground area. Between the flats behind the shop to the left and down to the left were brick built mounds with forts on the top, all out of shot. Yep happy memories.
I spent over 10 months as a patient in Black Notley Hospital during 1958/59, and in April 2019 I was invited to recount my memories in an interview with BBC Essex.
If you would lite to listen to this 17-minute interview please visit the link below:
https://vimeo.com/373864205
Kind regards,
Chris Dell
I was there in 1972 , worked on the farm and garden , was exspelled after 15 months , mr board was head master , it was a nightmare place , spent most of my time in the pokey lol
Hi I worked at Essex Hall when was 17 as a cadet nurse it was situated alongside North Station..Happy Days
i remember visiting low Burnham when i was a child and it was a lovely little town with a sweet shop and a lovely pub were all the farmers hung out.
I used to be a regular at Sterling Scooters which you can see in the service road next to the laundrette.
Came to West Drayton in 1963 after living in Greenford for the first 7 years of my life. I remember taking the weekly rent money (7/6), my Mum had given me, up to the town hall from Thornton Avenue where we lived.
Also remember mucking about in the cells with my little muckers when the cop shop was ...see more
My parents bought the then new property of 14 little Bookham street sometime in the mid 1950's when I was a very young child. I went to school in East Horsley and one of my memories was being brought home on a Saturday lunchtime by a friends father a Mr Crabb who would go into the Windsor Castle and leave his son John and I outside next to the off sales ...see more
I have many memories of this place. My grandparents lived in the trailer park you speak of in Hemingford abbots . Their surname is Radford. My grandfather actually made their home on the trailer park I believe and continued to live there after moving up from London after the second world war. His name was Albert Radford and my grandmother Dora Radford . Both have passed away and are laid to rest in ...see more
I am currently researching the *Collard* family. in 1899 they lived at 56 Rollo Street. My Great Grandmother was Lilian Thompson nee Collard, 1880-1949. Does anyone have any memories of the Collard family to share.
Hi, I have a relation who has static caravans on Millers Cottage Fame, Caravan site, Gannick? Road, Towyn. I was wondering could anyone help with the history of Millers Farm, what year and who owned it, and if possible I would love to see a picture of the original farm, thank you
Remember Mrs rudman. Mr force Mrs Phelps . Mrs The man put a ruler across my hand twice for drawing margins freehand! I was only 10
Does anyone remember miss Smith the headmistress from 1958 onwzrds. drove a little silver car. She scared me rigid
I once visited this store after dark one evening with another pupil [surname Menzies] boarding at The Abbey School. It must have been around 1959. Other than the school's buildings and grounds, the whole village was out of bounds for the boys. The purpose was to buy a packet of cigarettes. Menzies and I were only 10 years old at the time. The shopkeeper had no qualms in handing over a packet of ten Park Drive ...see more
hi my name is lynne cochrane, which is my maiden name. we lived as a family with cousins in the old highlands house, overlooking highlands gardens, which was owned bu my grandpa george percival howe, the house was demolished in 1972, which was very sad for all us kids, i was 13 at the time. so thank you to this site for all the wonderful pictures of barnet and the highlands gardens.
Sent here early 80's for 3 weeks. I'm now 50. HELL on earth! Forced to eat porridge which made me sick even though I told them this. Watched a monitor at another table forced to eat food from floor that another younger child had dropped. Ten mile walks every day with holes in my shoes. And I was only 11 and had taken my period. That didn't go down well.
Will NEVER forget her telling me I was ...see more
We holidayed in Barmston for two weeks each summer, being a family of six who travelled from Huddersfield. My dad was a turner for a large engineering company who formally was a 'regular' in REME seeing active service throughout the war in the Middle East and Europe before returning home in 1946. My mum and dad worked hard to bring up a large family and ensure that we got a two week break each year during "engineers ...see more
I remember these 3 cottages before the top two were demolished leaving Clerks Cottage at the bottom. I remember the house being lit by gaslight, my father was always buying new gas mantles because he kept hitting them with his head. I remember the cold dark nights when I had to go and get water from the well and the bath nights in the old tin bath in front of the fire.
Right opposite was the ...see more
As a young child in the late 1960’s our family used to take a regular trip on a Sunday to friends at Hill House Farm, Hartley Wespall. They were tenants of the farm and the only names I can remember are Daisy, Gladys, Tom and Buller. I don’t know their surname. I now live in in Hartley Wintney and have such fond memories. I would love to see some old photos of the farm as, sadly, we don’t have any. I did ...see more
Hi my name is Bryan Hall, but when I was born it was Bryan Daniels. Because of my mothers persnal difficulties I was taken in by the Surrey County Council aged three months being put into council care. In 1945 I was sent to the Farningham Homes for boys where I stayed until around 1948 when I was adopted and my name changed. In 1949 I was sent back to Farningham where I stayed to around 1955.
I was ...see more
my parents became engaged while sitting on this walk ----in 1924 !
I was born in January 1942 on the estate of Lord Rothschild in Home Farm, the former estate manager's residence. Lambeth Maternity Hospital in London was bombed and my mother was sent to Tring.
I worked at Victor Towlers for ten years and the photo Tolworth Broadway 1965 with the square clock at 2;30 is the wrong date. I suggest it is probably 1960 as per the others. The shop on the left was part of Victor Towlers by 1962 when I started there.
Many thanks for this information - it has been passed on to our archivist and the image date will be altered. Ed.
My grandfather Terence Price was born in Troedrhiwfuwch around 1938 I believe. I grew up with stories of his childhood and would love to hear more about those who may have knew him/his family. I think he lived on a farm and his father raised greyhounds. He would tell me stories of having to ride his bicycle a couple towns over to pick up fish for the dogs and smell was awful! Eventually he married my ...see more
95 Sunton brings many happy memories. This beautiful cottage was my grandparents cottage, Frederick and Bessie Brewer (nee Barlow). They lived there circa 1938 to 1977.
My maternal grandfather, Thomas Mottram, owned The Hop Pole pub on Market Street - sold it in 1924. My paternal great grandfather, A E Webb, started a haulage company, centred at a house called Mendham, on Wolverhampton Street, which became Webb Bros. Any body remember these? My Aunt, Hilda Mottram was a primary school headmistress - not sure which one.
Hello everyone.
I have just registered. I have been searching for info on platts common around 1948 onwards. I used to live in Hague Yard at platts common when I was little. It would be great if anyone as info. I would be most grateful. Lynn
My parents were Jack and Gladys Jones. My dad worked at wombwell Main pit and then Platts Common as a timekeeper.
The coffee house some people remember was called Wilson's, and although only 8 or 9 I remember a large gold-coloured coffee pot hanging outside, much like a pub sign. Yes, the smell was indeed delicious and pervaded the entire High Street. Wilson's was opposite the old alms houses where the trams now turn left towards Crown Hill. My mum used to take me and my young brother into Wilson's in the early 1950s as a ...see more
Hello, my family lived at 83 Hereford Road, Shepway, I think we were the first to live in that house, wonder if anyone can tell me when these houses were first lived in, I was born in 1949 and we lived at Vinters Park in a Nissen hut so would think we moved to Hereford road about 1950.......would love to hear of anyone else with similar memories.
Hi looking at the photo the extension was completed just prior to Christmas 1965
Hopefully just a little detail that may be of use
Jeremy
Many thanks for this information - our archivist will make an update, Ed.
This photo rings back memories of delivering meat to nursing home on a bi weekly basis, In the 1960’s this hall was used as a nursing home and my dad supplied the meat. My memories were of the heat from the kitchen, the smell of nursing home patients and the trophies shot by previous Lord Gisborough’s on their safari’s throughout the Empire. I bet that they still hang on the walls,somewhere
I worked for McLeods ,slater and Plasters in the 1950s Rosehill Square was my main area to work at ,had a GF called Anne Peat who's Mum owned the picture house in the Whifflet her young sister was Ray, the man thing I remember was Fergusons of the Whifflet who had the best brides I Scotland,
I lived in Sidcup asa child up to the age of 11, moving away from the area in 1970. I went to Days Lane Primary School. I don’t remember there being a high street as such but a row of shops I do remember which included a Hairdresser, a newsagent and a small grocer’s as supermarkets used to be called then. I have fond memories of walking past the shops to school and across the way was a long woodland path that led ...see more
My first recollection of life in Whiston was as a small child waking up at my Grandma's house on the morning she moved from near the crossroads to a newly built bungalow in Birchall Ave.(although her family had lived in Whiston for a few generations).
This would be the mid fifties and heralded the start of many happy years staying over there some weekends and at summer holidays. I had cousins living nearby and soon made ...see more
Hi, my surname was Rivington and we use to live on the corner of Seymour Street and Holt Hill. Looked like the house of the Munsters 😁I was a real tomboy. Use to go to mersey Park primary then prenton high. I remember family names of Rimmer, Grace, King and McGrath. We use to play, 'war' in mersey Park. Hearing the hooter for cammel lards, Morgan ice creams on Church Road and lots more.
I may well have a poor recollection here as I would have been only 3 or 4 years old at the time but wasn't Sainsbury's first Tonbridge store located on the west side of the high street just south of the old post office / just north of the old Baptist church? - this is before they moved to Avebury avenue and subsequently to the Angel football ground area? This would have been in the early 1960's - Thanks for ...see more
Does anyone remember the the big empty house over the plannie ?that we called the haunted hoose ,in the 1950,60 ,also the huge big rock we all used to sit on when we were youngsters,i think that it is a residential care home for the elderly ,I loved growing up in Carntyne ,and when it was raining heavy, it used to Flood under the bridge at Rigby St, and when coming home from school had to Wade through it to get home ,or climb up to the railway line very dangerous indeed ,
I remember moving here in 1970 into a brand new tenement,mossvale rd, everybody seemed to just keep to themselves ,no community spirit ,nothing much to do then, no shops, as nearest shops were in Ruchazie ,there used to be a grocer van that came round were you could get essentials ,but costly, later on they built the shops and a chippy,it was a lonely existence as a teenager as nowhere to meet new friends ,
For a time, my best school friend in Gomersal County Primary School was Colin Chapman. He lived at the children’s home in Little Gomersal. He had a walking impediment and wore a steel leg brace on one leg. At a certain point in the time I was at the school (1953-59), he suddenly disappeared from my life and I have since wondered often about what happened to him and how his life turned out. If anyone has any information about this person I’d be very grateful to receive it 🙏
After the War my dad worked in the garden at Wolfe's. He used to brjng home bags of extrusions and we'd trim them for extra money.
Hi all I lived in Vale grove Acton and enjoyed good times in Acton park I remember Sean Connery house. Churchfield road grocery store my uncle managed playing on the railway crossing gates etc Saturday morn pic odean & Granada
Although I only lived at Great Totham as a young boy for 7 years , 48 years after moving to the Cotswolds because of my fathers work I still have a fair few memories.
We moved to Foster road in 1965 from Chelmsford the year when all these great photos were taken, shame there are not more.
I remember playing with friends in the ditch area by the brook at the bottom of Catchpole Lane just to the ...see more
I went to Etton Pasture School
In the year 1983 to 1986
I have some good friend there
I can remember wood work class and the head teacher
Richard Langford
My father is the gentleman looking towards the camera, on the left hand side, behind the lady in the light coloured coat. His name is George Allatt Meadows. I remember being around 15 and my father coming home from Cheadle village and saying he had seen people taking photographs. He & my mother, Emily Meadows lived on Oak Road, Cheadle.
In the late 1960’s I was a pupil at a nearby preparatory school (Bishton Hall) and used to enjoy walking via Colton to Rugeley as well as the main A51. Walking up towards Admaston was a bit far as I was only eight years old but I did walk up there on a few occasions. Now as a driver I explore the area and go around other nearby areas, but I always enjoy parking by Blithfield Reservoir for a look and walk around. Sometimes I enjoy a walk around Colton too.
I lived in Hayfield from 1940 till 1960. My mother moved my brother and myself here to get away from the bombing of Manchester where I was born. I have so many memories of being brought up in this wonderful, for a small boy, place.
I well remember the Park Hall swimming pool, set in the middle of a wood, with statues on pillars all around. It cost 2/6d old money, or 25 pence in new money, a day to go there ...see more