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I lived at the wayside garage on the A6 from 1952-1962. I used to cycle to the village (Meadows) past Escomes Farm opposite Holmemere Hall and up Dykes Hill, passing Alan Clarks farm where I used to help ...Read more

A memory of Yealand Conyers in 1957 by Heather Leach

Adams had a poultry farm in Duck Pond Lane (left hand side of Sainsburys). They lived in a big grand house at the bottom of Woodchurch Lane; it fronted onto Prenton Road West. There was a plaque on the outhouse ...Read more

A memory of Oxton in 1954 by David Wharton

I was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1950, and lived on Hough Hill for the next 21 years. Swannington back then was an agricultural village, some people worked out of the village in factories or construction, ...Read more

A memory of Swannington in 1955 by Robert Lakin

I have very fond memories of Caerau. I was born 1946 and I loved Caerau. We had real fun times in the summer picking whimberries and your mam making delicious tarts, families gathering on the mountain for picnics, spending hours on ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1951 by Diane Vincent

I was born in St Albans in 1946 and lived at a cottage called Primrose Cottage, The Hill, Wheathampstead. My grandmother lived in the cottage, Wayside Cottage, on the hill which still exists today. ...Read more

A memory of Wheathampstead in 1950 by Alan Riddell

Born in Wimbledon 1950, I lived in Trevelyan Road in Tooting until I was 10 when we moved to South Lambeth.  My nan lived behind the Granada in Tooting and she cleaned there.  She lived in Bickley Street.  I went to ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1950 by Janet Mc Gowan (Nee Gibson)

I and a few other chidren were sent from Portsmouth authorities to this school which was for malajusted children. Mr Benions was the principle and it was run on the lines of a Rudolf Steiner School. We had no schooling and were ...Read more

A memory of Torcross in 1955 by Diana Earley

Can anyone tell me where the stone quarry was at Sheriff Hill? From 1944-1949 I lived at Springfield Place. My grandparents lived at Egremond Gardens. On the 1911 census my grand father and great-grandfather are living at Lilac ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1950 by Ann Thirlwall

My memory of Marchants Hill is in 1958, when I was about 5 yrears old. My dad was a teacher in East London, and he and other teachers would take kids form London to stay there for a week. I remember the old swimming pool ...Read more

A memory of Hindhead in 1958 by Helen Barnett

We moved from Weymouth to Kingston Russel just after have taken the 11+ exam at St. John's school. When I started at Long Bredy school I only remember one classroom and one teacher. Hand bells and country dancing stick in my ...Read more

A memory of Long Bredy in 1952 by Christopher Morris