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I used to attend St. Marys without the walls church service every Sunday and eventually in 1956 got married there by the Rev. Digby Thomas. My Father had been a choir boy in that church many years before, having lived in ...Read more

A memory of Chester in 1950 by Barbara Evans

I was born in 1946 and went to live on Sutton Flats when I was 5. We lived there in various flats until I was 21! By then, each block was known by a name rather than just a number and we lived at the top of ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1958 by Norma Rowles

My memories of Grays go back to the 1940's and 1950's the war years and before the London over-spill estates Of Belhurst Park and Basildon arrived. I was born and lived at 106 Bridge Road with my parents ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1940 by Albert Wm Gosnall

I was born in 192 Sutton Flats and Christened at St. Thomas's. My older brother Johnny and I were very happy there and both attended Halton Bank School. Our auntie, uncle and cousins lived close by in another ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1950 by Lynette Riley

I went to all three of these schools and left st.james about 1952.I read the comment from Hilary Leopold and remember her,we were in the same class at one time.I remember Irene Butler,Maureen Sexton Joan Whte ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1950 by Teresa Keech

I remember moving to my granddad's house when I was 9yrs old. It was an old house, no bath room, only out side loo. My dad who brought me up built a bathroom on so we could have a bath - before we used tin bath in front of the fire. It was ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe in 1969 by Denise Harrison

I was a pupil at Sir Walter St. John's Grammar in the 1960s. It is now the home of Thomas's whose pupils include George and Charlotte Wales

A memory of Battersea by Peter Peterjameslongdon@Gmail.Com

I spent most of my early life just on the borders of Heston and southall, as my father was a male nurse working for the ministry and our house came with his job, back in the fifties, I and my mum and dad ...Read more

A memory of Heston by janetsmith728

I cannot remember the year but the club went on an Easter Ramble. We got a diesel train from Marylebone to Great Missenden. Leaving the station we turned left and up a hill. Then we turned left ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell by Nick Beard

I lived at no 50 just 2 doors down from st Winifred’ s church from 1944 to 1964. My mother was Stella Jeffery and my grandparents Mona and Charles (Jeff) Jeffery who was a dentist and had his surgery at No 50. Does anyone ...Read more

A memory of Penrhiwceiber by suetew