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Really strange looking at the photo of Oxford St circa 1955.  It took me some minutes to work out that I was looking at the old Post Office from the Square.  I remember the railings outside the Post Office.  I guess ...Read more

A memory of Pontycymer in 1955 by Paul John

I guess this photograph is looking down the valley with the photographer standing near The Square. I can't quite remember the name of the hill (Alexandra Road?) just out of shot on the front left of the photo. It had a pub halfway up on the left, and a doctor's clinic if I recall correctly. Paul

A memory of Pontycymer in 1955 by Paul John

I may be a year out with the date, apologies.I vividly remember the day a young Queen Elizabeth II visited my home town of Dewsbury. We were in a fever of excitement at my Junior and Infants school, waiting for the bus to take us ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury in 1954 by Megan Clarkson

Hello I was at Port Regis between 1953 - 1955 I was 7 when I got there and left just before my 10th birthday. Was anyone else at Port Regis, Broadstairs when it was a convent for ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1955 by Rita Faith Pilbrow Carlson

I am trying to contact someone who lived in and around the Mayford Rd area during the 50's and remembers in particular the Coronation and the street parties circa 1953 and any photographs taken ...Read more

A memory of Balham in 1953 by Philip Spencer

I first saw Oxhey in 1956 when I would take the train from Hatch End to Bushey & Oxhey station (as it was called then) on Saturday afternoons to see Watford play football at Vicarage Road in the old Third Division South. ...Read more

A memory of Oxhey in 1956 by John Howard Norfolk

This picture is the view from the main road of Harlow lock, Old Mill Resturant and weir and the towpath where the rowing boats and canoes were moored when I lived there. They were moored both sides of ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1950 by Eddie Tait

My mother took short term housekeeping positions and in 1953 we lived in Westbrook House in Westbrook village, looking after Sir Edgar and Lady Ludlow Hewitt. He was a gentleman farmer and I sometimes drove around his land with him ...Read more

A memory of Bromham in 1953 by Sonia James

I cannot be specific as to the date of the Queen's visit because I was very young at the time. On the left hand side of the road you can see what was at one time the post office but which later became a carpet shop.  On the ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1956 by Kathleen Green

I was born in Little Marlow in 1947 and lived three doors away from the village shop, run by Miss Littlewood. I would go there and weigh the sultanas, currants etc., and put them into little blue bags. My Mum (Phyllis ...Read more

A memory of Little Marlow in 1950 by Liz Hughes