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I can remember my infant years at Napier Road school. I remember when I was in the first year there, we would have a small slice of toasted bread in the afternoons. Then I went to Holbrook School when ...Read more

A memory of West Ham in 1958 by Jean (Nee) Thompson

1956, I was brought up in Doon Street, Kirkdale, along with my 3 brothers and 5 sisters. We all went to St John's School, where we had Father Hopkins and Sister Mary Francis, we used to call them the dragons. ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1954

My husband has just come across a book which was rescued from the Newbridge Mill during the flood it suffered in 1953. The book entitled 'Knole and the Sackvilles' by V Sackville-West has an ...Read more

A memory of Colemans Hatch in 1953

A little bit of history here, folks! Famous for being the location where I had my tonsils out in 1955 (or6?). Also famous (or it should be) for being the very first hospital incorporated into the National Health Service on (I ...Read more

A memory of Flixton in 1955 by Roger Hare

Can anyone remember the air-raid shelter on bull farm at the side of the school. I can remember we used to run across it when we were kids. I just wondered, do we still have any? We lived in the nissan huts, off where ...Read more

A memory of Mansfield in 1959 by Gloria Brotherhood

I came to live in Meopham in May 1953 when I was 5 months old. I lived in a house called Kesteven right on the bend in the road at Meopham Green. Derham's the bakers was opposite, where Ken Derham used to bake all ...Read more

A memory of Meopham in 1953 by Melanie Everett

I am a Blaen boy, born in 7, Wind Street, just came across this site. I remember some of the names mentioned. I was born in 1946, my mother was Cath Drumm (nee Walters), my father was Sean Drumm from Tullamore, Ireland (ex R.A.F. where ...Read more

A memory of Blaenllechau in 1950 by David John Drumm

I well remember their delicious very large cream puffs, we would try to make them last as long as possible while friends and I sat and enjoyed them; also their goose loaves - so crispy. My husband Terry and I ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1950 by Brenda Smith

I was about 13 or 14 and was deeply in love with the daughter of the pub. They had a table tennis room behind the pub, very narrow and small. I was terrible at tennis so I used to keep score on a small notepad. One time my pencil ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1958 by Nicholas Haffenden Baldwin

I remember this scene well, the pub in the picture is The Hope Inn. At the time my mother and father kept a pub further up the canal towards the River Nene, this pub was called The Castle Inn. At the time this photograph ...Read more

A memory of Wisbech in 1955 by Dave Garford