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I'm sure Barnet Cinema is well remembered, but I cannot find any photograph of it. Another building that I recall is GOTHIC HOUSE which stood at the top of Baker's Hill and overlooked Clifford Road golf course ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1950 by Roland Wood

How lovely to read all these memories and what a lot I had forgotten over the years! I too, was born in Thornton House (1951) in Warwick Toad, I never realised that it used to be a school. In later years it was turned into ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1951 by Anthea Post

I grew up in Parkgate when there were three pubs and three shops, I schooled at St Pauls Junior School, Headmaster was a very strict Mr Moore with Mr Teare, Ms Bowness I think, Miss Martin and Mrs Crossthwaite. Those were the ...Read more

A memory of Frizington in 1955 by John Isaac Johnston

I always played on Barnies Hills, there was a big hill, we called it the hill, it had a big dip on top where you hid which we often did when we heard our mams shouting us to go in. Then there was the rafts we made to go sailng. In winter you could skate on the thick ice.

A memory of Collyhurst in 1950 by Clare Booth

I'm Not sure whether that was the actual date but as a child of five I recall my mother standing on the top step of our home where she would watch me go over the brow of the bridge on Midland Road on my way to ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1954 by Roland Mitchell

My grandparents lived in Kings Place, Bukhurst Hill, Florence and William Street. I stayed a lot with them and always remember the toy shop at the bottom of Queens Road, its name I can't recall. There ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1959 by Barbara Mcauley

I too remember the days when when I and my friends would get the bus to Wheatley Hill and go to the Embassy Ball Room looking for romance. Of course we would also go to other nieghbouring villages but the Hill was always my favourite, ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1950 by Ralphh Hughes

I was born in Croydon in 1945 and lived in Victoria Place near Duppas Hill Lane. I went to the Howard School, then on to St Andrews School. My friends and I used to go to a coffee shop in South Croydon, I think it was it was in Lower ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1959 by Clifford Carver

The school bell would be rung around the playground. Dinner time. The children taking school lunch would cross to the church hall. My best friend and I would race away up the school brae and further on till we reached 'the ...Read more

A memory of Kinnoull Hill in 1951 by Winifred Lilian Macdonald

What happened to some of the people I knew in my class when I was at Langley Park Junior Mixed School circa 1957? I left in 1957 to go to Durham Johnston School after the 11+ exam which split us all up! Names such as Keith ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park in 1957 by Glynne Lewis