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I remember Blakes Corner so well. I was born in 1959 and it was just like the picture. The memories came flooding back to me. I used to walk the streets of Barking with my dad.

A memory of Barking in 1969 by Kathy Lewis

As a young lad growing up in the village was a joy with the forest & common for a playground. We knew nearly everybody that lived there. You talk about Morgans the newsagent and Myers the Butchers; I ...Read more

A memory of Chigwell Row in 1960 by George Surridge

I remember seeing Amen Corner and a few other groups there. And i also went to the Bali Hai I lived in Gleneagle Road.

A memory of Streatham in 1966 by Lesley O'dea

I married Jack Raphael in St John's Church and was his wife for thirteen years. It used to take hours to go up one side of the street then cross over and down the other. It's not like that now - five minutes does it! There was ...Read more

A memory of Carluke in 1961

Reading about Ealing Road again I remembered the wood yard/shop at right hand side at the top of Ealing Road, past the Regal cinema. It was a very narrow shop but a very deep shop and i loved the smell of the wood on sale. Does ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1962 by Alan Riddell

I was brought up in the flats on the main road of Aldrington Road next to Wates furniture shop. I went to Eardley Road then in 1960 went to Dunraven. I remember very well the sweet shop on the corner; the smell was heavenly. I had a ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1960 by Valerie Mcintyre

This was our local post office; these shops were a meeting place years ago and everybody new each other then. The shops at Upton Lea then, were very clean outside. On the corner we caught the old buses, jump on & off to Slough.

A memory of Slough in 1960

Known locally as 'the new shops' close to the junction of Moorside Road and Woodsend Road. The shops also included a branch of Boots, Bamforths cycle and radio shop, an off-licenes (right in the corner), a grocers, a newsagent, dry cleaners and chippie. There may have been a fishmongers as well?

A memory of Flixton in 1960 by Roger Hare

I Moved to Wembley in 1948 at age of 2 and lived there for 22 years. We lived in Ealing Road opposite Lyon Park Ave. My friends and I used to go up Lyon Park Ave to the Iron Bridge which crossed over the railway lines and do ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1960 by Alan Riddell

I owned the Ford Anglia 105E parked on the road outside the church in the bottom left hand corner of the photograph. I rang the bells at the church and usually parked in that place. The car, Harry Potter blue, registration ADH ...Read more

A memory of Bilston in 1969 by Bryony Dorrington