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I remember coming from school and running up to the hillside fields helping Wheightman to load the hay onto his tractors and building the haystacks on North Pasture, off down to the yard pond looking for frogs and ...Read more

A memory of Newbottle in 1956 by Richard Leadbitter

I remember shopping with my mum & aunt every Saturday. When we were finished with the shopping we would visit a little cafe right next door to Woolworths. After I had drank my bottle of Tizer, I ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton in 1953 by June Fahnestock (Nee Clea

I have just returned from London and I was checking to see if there were any photos of Finchley Road and Lymington Road. I was born at No 8 Depot Cottages and stayed there until my dad passed away in 1959. My ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage in 1950 by Derek Paul

My name was Susan Penfold and I grew up in a small house on Evelyn Avenue in Newhaven. My mother's mother was one of seventeen children born in Piddinghoe. I used to visit my grandmother's home and aunt Tops, auntie Else and uncle ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1955 by Susan Peppard

Does anyone remember the Hounslow Welsh Society which used to meet in a room in the grounds of Hounslow Hospital? My surname was Richards then & my Dad was a producer of the amateur dramatics & we also had a ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1952 by Peggy Roberts

I was born in north London in 1951. We moved to 3 Penzance Road when I was about 6 months old, I lived there until 1972. I remember Wallies van, buying broken biscuits from the shop in Petersfield Ave, playing runouts and tin ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1951 by Raymond Smith

My grandmother lived in Clayton West and my four cousins and I often slept over. Her surname was Sleaford but I have no memory of the actual address. I have just very clear memories of the worn stone steps into the cellar and the ...Read more

A memory of Clayton West in 1950 by Jean Martens

I went to Barrow Hill School in the early fifties, Mr. Rees was the Headmaster. On a Friday evening we would go into his home and watch the Cisco Kid on television, the first television I ever watched. I also remember ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1951 by Daniel Wright

My family and I moved to Peterlee in the Autumn of 1955. We lived in Thorntree Gill. Petelee was quite new then. We could see the North Sea from my parent's bedroom window. At that time there were no ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee in 1955 by Margaret Sewell

In the late 50's I moved to Rochford Road, just a few hundred yards from the airport. My dad, had learned to fly in Canada during the war and was now back working as a booking clerk for British Rail at Prittlewell. As a ...Read more

A memory of Southend Airport in 1958 by Colin Prentice