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I was born in 1960 at home at 151 Roxeth Green Avenue. Growing up in South Harrow was great, the 'local shops' were down at Shaftesbury Circle where there was a really old-fashioned sweet shop, all dark wood and high ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1960 by Pete Sullivan

I met a young lady named Pat Brown, who lived at 3 Station Cottages in Wormald Green. I was a young army apprentice from nearby Harrogate and I first met Pat at the cinema in Harrogate one weekend. I was posted abroad to Germany ...Read more

A memory of Wormald Green in 1963 by Anthony Chard

Mum came from Llanegryn- Eileen Jones from Bodegryn. Each summer we used to visit her village and stay in the guest house in the village (it was actually Mum's old house!) I remember they had a fabulous parrot in one of the rooms- I ...Read more

A memory of Dolgoch in 1963 by Kathryn Brady

I recall my first day at Our Lady and St Joseph's in Glenboig, Sept. 1962, Miss Docherty our teacher who rapped my knuckles when I wrote with my left hand, no longer after I relayed the story to my Mother! Words were axchanged ...Read more

A memory of Glenboig in 1962 by James Kelly

I lived at The Bull 1959-1963 it was a family pub with many local characters among it's customers. Looking at the photos of Mitcham bought back memories, although I didn't reconnise some places straight away, I did the cinema, ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1960 by Patricia James

For a few seasons at Heaysham Towers I was a kid entertainer. I played the accordion and the show was put together by Madam Patti Regina. Johnny Spillers was the entertainment guy. I think the show played on Sunday afternoons. I live in the USA now but often think of the old days. Grant Slinger

A memory of Heysham in 1969 by Grant Slinger

I spent the first 3 years of my life in a nissan hut situated on the common. In 1953 after the flood we moved to Twyford Avenue where my brother now lives having purchased the house. I was married in St Nicholas church ...Read more

A memory of Great Wakering in 1960 by Maureen Farrell

I lived with my mum and my two brothers and one sister at 7 Manor Road, Erith, which was on the junction with Crescent Road. There was an iron foundry opposite our house, which had a very tall new chimney put in when the ...Read more

A memory of Erith in 1960 by Audrey Simpson

My memories of Sancton are happy childhood ones, my grandmother lived here from 1901 and when she moved to Leeds many years later I was taken back to Sancton to visit my aunt and uncle Albert and ...Read more

A memory of Sancton in 1969 by Julie Mcgrath

Yes, the Milano was a little bit of the Left Bank in Wolverhampton. But what about the 'Troc'? It was a much more dubious place. 'Cool, Clean Consulate' were the other cigarettes if you wanted to pose and couldn't afford Passing Clouds. Dainne

A memory of Wolverhampton in 1964 by Dianne Brown