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Yes.....the Broadway Lidi was my home. I am Stuart Smith, my father Gordon Smith was the first manager (well, they called it superintendent then) at the Lido. We moved there when I was about 3 years old, and lived in a ...Read more

A memory of Bridgwater in 1960 by Stuart Smith

The Fair Green was one of the first places my sister Valerie Cooper (nee Hook) worked in her capacity as an apprentice horticulturist for the Mitcham Council. When she went for the job they told her that she would have to do the ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1961 by Carole Baldwin

I lived in Kirby Hill for one year from 1965 to 66, I was a 13 year old boy. I absolutely  loved my time there and have many happy memories. My Mother and Father bought the Shoulder of Mutton in 1965 taking ...Read more

A memory of Kirby Hill in 1965 by John Wood

I lived most of my life in Sible Hedingham, as a family we moved there from London in 1962.  I was just 2 years old at the time. My father Robert Farren, "Bob" as he was best known and my mother Ivy, took over the licence of ...Read more

A memory of Sible Hedingham in 1962 by Anne Elder

The pub on the left of the picture was renowned for a few brawls in it's time, originally called The Globe (now known as Raferty's) I recall walking down Cambridge St and seeing a man being hurled through the window into ...Read more

A memory of Wellingborough in 1968 by Mick Austin

I was born in Minehead, and have also lived in Kitswell, Dunster, Williton, Timberscombe and Rodhuish, and attended all the schools. My first job after leaving Minehead School in December 1958, was at the fruit and salad farm ...Read more

A memory of Minehead in 1962 by P Aden

I moved to Freshford with my family when I was 12 years old and lived at The Inn for 5 years before moving away. We did not have the wall on the end of the building that you see in the foreground. By then a large car park had ...Read more

A memory of Freshford in 1964 by Rosemary Leader

How wonderful to have my memory jogged by the lovely pictures of Clapham Common. After school, most days we (my brother Lance) and my mother would have such fun. We would play spot the park keeper, (always nicely ...Read more

A memory of Clapham in 1962 by Margaret Beil

I was born in Gourock in 1960 and lived there until I married and moved to the States. I love living here but my heart belongs to Gourock and seeing these pictures brings me home again. My life growing up there is the ...Read more

A memory of Gourock in 1960 by First Name Last Name

In February 1963, when I was six and a half, my parents bought their first house, in Thorpe Road, East Ham. It was and had been a very cold winter, and when we moved in we had difficulty opening the back door, as there was so ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1963 by Jackie Craig