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My first job was as a nanny to the Chess children, Oscar, Anna and Paul. Their dad had car sales rooms, one was in Port Talbot. When I got married my husband and I worked in Coney Beach, a big self service cafe on the front with a bar ...Read more

A memory of Porthcawl by Eira Waite

This Airport was, in 1951/52 when I was there, RAF Dalcross. It was here that I did my advanced flying training on Airspeed Oxfords and won my "wings". Two members of our course were killed while flying from here. Many happy ...Read more

A memory of Inverness Airport by Terry Clary

Always known by my pals and myself, just as "the Greyhound" (late 1950s). In those days, the Public Bar was on the left hand side of the building, which had benches and scrubbed wooden tables with a sprinkling of sawdust on the ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich by Ken Cook

I was born in 1956 in Albert Road, Kilburn and lived in the area until I was 15.  I remember the community as one that was very close knit, you would walk out of your door and say hello to everyone you passed, young ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1965 by Kim Brown

I was looked after by a lovely lady called Sister (Enid) Butler who took in unwanted children until they were re- homed either by fostering or adoption (this was me). There was a young lad there called Peter who allegedly set fire ...Read more

A memory of Hinton Martell in 1959 by Ali Burbidge

I was stationed about the USS Canopus, and lived with my wife and son... and then daughter... on the second floor of the wonderful old house known as Joppa. I have a ton of photos, as well as a ton of memories. Another Canopus family ...Read more

A memory of Innellan in 1974 by First Name Last Name

My dad Harry Kitchener Stacey worked part time as a bar man at the Duke. I remember coming on the bus from Bartly Green in the afternoons, sometimes after finishing his shift, dad would take me to the afternoon movies just around the corner.

A memory of Harborne in 1957 by Paul Stacey

When I lived in Twyford and surrounding areas between when I was born in 1944 and when I moved away from the area in 1971, much of my time was spent in Twyford. My uncle, aunt and my cousins lived in Norton ...Read more

A memory of Twyford in 1962 by Anthony Beard

I lived a mile or so east of Rush Green, in Barton Avenue but my mum would send me with a note to get the shopping for the family. She would sometimes give me eight half crowns or 1, a lot of money then. I would cycle down, first ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1958 by Tony Davis

I went to the County Primary School from 1956 until 1962, the teachers were Mrs Bracken and Mr Gore, Mrs Gutterage was the cook and later my mother. The lady who lived directly behind the school kept lots of ...Read more

A memory of Church Minshull in 1956 by Tony Peet