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This photo was taken around 1960 as my father (who can be seen in the photo, cleaning the bedroom window) bought number 11, St Paul's Street in 1958 and did not open the barber shop for over a year. I was 5 years old when we moved ...Read more

A memory of Stamford in 1960 by Suzanna Sawyer

We moved down to Acton from Stafford in the midlands in 1949 when I was 4 years old. We were given a flat in The Vale, my first school was East Acton infants up East Acton lane, a cracking little school. I was very happy ...Read more

A memory of Acton in 1960 by Roger Brown

My name is Jean - maiden name being Hamy and I had a wonderful childhood living in Stanford Close. I have a brother and sister - Janet and Michael. I remember going to the pond - catching small fish ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1965 by Jean Kelly

I was born in Wales but moved to Stafford with my parents and brother when I was 3. We lived on Sabine Street and I went to St. Paul's school and then to Riverway. We moved to Exeter Street when I was about 11. I got married ...Read more

A memory of Stafford in 1962 by Ellen Lockley

I saw this photo and recalled how little the view had changed from the 1920s into the 1960s and early 1970s. There was a place called Paddy's Heaven which was a few old cottages at the end of Commonwealth Rd, this is where ...Read more

A memory of Caterham in 1963 by Belinda Charrington

This estate including Stanford Close, going off to the right, was built by the Barwood Brothers, builders of Laceby between 1962 and 1960. We were the first owners of the left-hand of semi detached bungalows seen ...Read more

A memory of Laceby in 1963 by Dennis Read

I went to Albert Park school and then broughton modern and lived in grasmere st my name was Stamford then. We left when I was 15yrs old and came to Prestatyn as my Mum and Dad ran the Salford children's holiday camp. I have great ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1960 by Irene Crumb

Wolseley Bridge has some memories for me going back to late 1968 and throughout 1969 as I was a pupil at St Bede’s School in nearby Bishton Hall. My mother was matron at the time and as we were mother and son (father died ...Read more

A memory of Wolseley Plain in 1969 by John Richard Jones

I lived in Eynsham for just 6 months when I was 9 years old.  My mother was doing her health visitor training in Oxford and so from Monday to Friday we lived in a rented cottage in the village and I attended the local ...Read more

A memory of Eynsham in 1963 by Sue Carlyon

I grew up in Woodford Bridge with my twin sister Jean, friends Norma Overton, Pat Ancona, Lyn, Norma, Gillian and Gloria Jenkinson, and Richard Cutmore. Happy memories of buying hot bread from Rackhams, taking a ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1960 by Janice Mckenzie