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I spent a few years at The Mount Boys Home (1 Heygate Street, Wellington) in the early seventies. I wonder if the building is still there, has anyone got any photo's of it?

A memory of Wellington in 1973

I have very fond memories of Tooting. My parents and I moved to Fairlight Road in Tooting in 1974. My first memory of that is the smell of paint, and sausage rolls bought from the bakery shop just round the corner; the paint ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1974 by Anne Marie Ayton

I remembered my family was the first Chinese family to live in Aveley High Street. This park I used to come to a lot with my parents and sisters/brother. This slide - I remember when I first slid down on it, my sister ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1976 by Miu Ling Cheng

I was born in Quarella Road Hospital in Bridgend, but grew up on Cwmdu Street, Maesteg. Often went to the top of the street to get sweets and pop for myself, and a fresh gooseloaf for my mother. I remember it as a very ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1975

ODE TO WALLSEND I was born at Wallsend Village green in the heart of Wallsend Town, I spent my childhood in an era great to be around, We all grew up together and played in our back lanes, My cousins and my neighbours in the ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1976 by James Bridgewood

I remember Whitoff bakery at the top of Wast Street as this was the year I got married and we hired our cake stand from them.

A memory of Crewe in 1970 by Ian Speake

I found this site through a link on another, which had pictures of old buses - http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/?cat=51 I commented there on some of the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport fleet, which my dad used to drive. I was born in ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury in 1974 by Gordon Sharpe

Yes, I remember the time the Trident crashed near the "Crooked Billet" pub. I was driving a 116 bus and was on the bus stand in Staines. The journey to Staines from Hounslow was uneventful. I had about 20 minutes before ...Read more

A memory of Heathrow Airport London in 1972 by Ivor Seymour

I was born in my grandad's back room, 39 Cecil Street, Coatbridge. My mum was Jeanie Young who married Johnny Mclean my dad. My grandad Billy Young was a character who was well known about Coatbridge, I remember a pub he used to ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge in 1970 by Lorraine Morris

I also remember going into Sainsburys as a child in the 1960s when it was halfway up the High Street on the left, it had metal racks on the front of the counters to rest shopping bags on. The marble effect floors were a ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1974 by Richard Lee