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The Methodist infant school's headmaster was George Topliss, my teacher was Mrs Cresswell. The school is now a private house. There were only three classes, infants, juniors and seniors. If you did not pass the 11+ you stayed until ...Read more

A memory of Southwell in 1952 by Nesta Phillips

I lived in Holly Grove House for 16 years till 1960 when we sold the house to a developer. A E Mathews used to come to parties at our house, he built four tubs house oppersite where he lived ...Read more

A memory of Bushey Heath in 1956 by Iain Mitchell

I also remember Hounslow Cottage Hospital very well. I had personal experience of it when I was taken there for a check-up after a minor car accident in about 1950/1 when I smashed my face. They checked I didn't have a broken nose - ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1951 by Susan Coleman

I was born in Liverpool (Smithdown Road Hospital that was renamed Sefton General by the time my sister was norn there 19 months after me) and was christened in St Andrew's Church in Clubmoor. We lived for a short ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1955 by Susan Coleman

I left Huyton to go in the army in 1956 and met my lovely wife and stayed in Wiltshire but never forgot The Mayfair picture house. It was Joey Dutton and me who started calling it 'The Ranch' because of all the cowboy pictures.

A memory of Huyton in 1955 by John Currie

I have a photo taken in 1959 of my mother outside the boarded up cottage in Mill Street where she was born in 1920. My Grandparents moved there around 1918 from Pontypridd. I can remember that it was down by the river and looking back ...Read more

A memory of Cynwyd in 1959 by Margaret Dickinson

I was born in Saffron Walden 57 years ago. I was a Mulcahy and went to St Mary's in Castle Street. It was reading about the paddling pool that prompted me into writing. I remember playing at that pool, oh so many ...Read more

A memory of Saffron Walden in 1958 by Iris Stock

My grandfather William Forey and gran Nellie, moved to Tre Ifor, when they demolished Dare Street in Aberdare. I think it was around the 1930s or 40s. The whole street moved to these new houses, and most stayed ...Read more

A memory of Llwydcoed in 1950 by Heather Forey

I was so surprised to find this site – pleasantly so! I now live in South Africa, but was born in Sunninghill in 1943. My mother told me when I was old enough, that I had been premature, jaundiced (apparently ...Read more

A memory of Ascot in 1953 by Janet Sanders

The date is approximate. Does anyone recall, or have any information about, a large detached residence in Harrowdene Road called the Red House? It stood where the existing bungalows are in Sylvester Avenue and was ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1957 by Robert Smith