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Just found this site by accident and it’s brill. I lived for several years at 2 Pine Street opposite the Busseys and can remember all of the people. Kevin Greener remembers I lived at 2 Pine Street with my parents ...Read more

A memory of Perkinsville in 1968 by Brian Keay

Two station foremen were employed at Law Junction in 1961: a fellow called Guy, and “Old Andrew” who was in charge of me. Unfortunately both their surnames are lost to my memory, and yet, like the alphabet, I still remember the sequence of ...Read more

A memory of Law in 1961 by John Cunningham

Rag Days , who knows why they were called rag days I believe Reading Uni is now rated as one of the top 100 unis in the world , as far as i can ascertain the rag day parades have gone now mores the pity they were fun days and ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1960 by Frank Waddom Brown

I attended Greenfield Street Boys School from 1965-6, until I moved to another school. Shops around that time included, Woolworths. Hyde Sports Centre on the corner of Newton Street and Manchester road. Garbutts shoes, ...Read more

A memory of Hyde in 1969 by Alan Hesketh

I am Pam Craddock nee Waller. I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Low Valley. My father Ernest worked at Darfield Main Colliery until the 1980s when he took early retirement and he and my mother Edna came to live here ...Read more

A memory of Low Valley in 1962 by Pamela Craddock

Rex Greens opposite the Union fixed gear carrier bike ( or butcher bike) hale rain or shine start at Norwood Street zig zag across Castleford Road,Snydale Road, The Grove Dalefeild area and then through Woodhouse Estate finishing at Kingsway. 2s 6p/week

A memory of Normanton in 1962 by Brian Close

In 1969 I,remember my husband and myself being managers of Morrelis Coffee bar in the high street. Taking the baby for a walk down the old harbour in the summer,and listening to the band on the Leas at weekends. Went back a few years ...Read more

A memory of Folkestone in 1969 by June Boiling

I was 11 years old in 1965 and had moved to Wetherby in 1963. I walked around Bernards store several times. The shop across the side street from Bernards Store was a small Newsagent. The lampost in front of it was the pick up ...Read more

A memory of Wetherby in 1965 by Graeme Airey

I was born in Mayday but brought up in Lansdowne Road for the first two and a half years. I remember the fountain being in the grounds of the water works where Tesco is now situated. When I was nearly 3 we moved to ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1960

I moved to Northolt from Greenford in 1960 aged 6, to the Racecourse Estate and lived at no 15, Plumpton Close with my mum and dad and sister Corinne and brother Clifford. Our little road was all families with small ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1960 by Deborah Alexander