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I was four years old and lived with mum in a caravan parked in this farmer's field along with other caravaners. Mum and dad would have paid rent to the owner of the farm. I was the only youngster around and had no ...Read more

A memory of Burtonwood in 1959

Nan and Grandad Pritlove lived with us in Estcourt Road. They owned Pritloves Confectioner and Tobaconists at 294 North End Road. Marks and Spencer's eventually bought the business so as to expand their store. Nan died in 1951 and Grandad in 1966. My family left Fulham in 1956 and moved to Hove.

A memory of Fulham in 1950 by Terry Mitchell

I think Stonehouse had something for every age growing up. Brownies, cubs, scouts, and guides. A youth club and a coffee bar. Always somewhere to explore, the canal, Doverow for sledging, the brickworks and always ...Read more

A memory of Stonehouse in 1952 by Jackie Shearman

I remember Leadgate way back in the 1950s. We were lads from Medomsley Edge Homes who went to the pictures there, I think the place was the "Roxy". We went to school with lads from Leadgate. Two of them I remember well - ...Read more

A memory of Leadgate in 1950 by Bob Bomley

I can remember Sam the blacksmith. I would stand and watch him at work in the forge. He had lost an arm (presumably in the war) and he had different attachment false arms which he would change to provide the tool he ...Read more

A memory of Dalham in 1955 by Robert Smith

I was brought up in Bletchingley in the 1960s and my father Clyde Howard Willats was born near Redhill. He knew Outwood well and used to tell me the story about the two families who owned the two windmills, they were the ...Read more

A memory of Outwood in 1958 by Tim Willats

My family and I used to spend our holidays at Point Clear almost every year during the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, and often met the same families each time we went down there. I ...Read more

A memory of St Osyth in 1956 by Robert Munn

I was born in 1947 at Birch Haill Hospital and lived in Castleton, first on Manchester Road and later Alder Road until I got married at St. Gabriel's Church. My maiden name was Jackson. I attended Castleton ...Read more

A memory of Castleton in 1957 by Irene Tuck

We lived at 29 Northumberland Road in the 1950s with my grandmother. My sister Moira and I went to Longfield school and I have many happy memories there. My grandmother took me with her to St Albans church as a very small ...Read more

A memory of North Harrow in 1958 by Jan Herd

I remember the time when a poor boy stole ten shillings from a teacher's purse. Later the school was assembled, the gymnasium horse installed in front of the audience; we boys. The headmaster, instructed ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1958