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I used to spend my w/ends and school hols at pickmere in the 1950,s ,I used to hire out boats for jack spencer they were the blue and white rowing boats. his boat shed is hiddenby the tree in the foreground,his house is the white one ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere by Dave Pitt

I was a at school as a boarder at Churcher's College from 1945 to 1951. The immediate post war years in England were a time of great hardship and rationing. I remember vividly the bad winter of 1947, when Heath ...Read more

A memory of Petersfield in 1945 by Howard Johnson

We lived in the flats called Pinehurst Close, wedged between the bottom of the RAE and the Queensmead shops. We moved (to Cove) just as Kingsmead Shopping Centre was being built (1966/7?). I went to St Patrick's School in ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough by Terry Loader

My name is sammy strachan I lived at 9a Middleton st the miners row's behind the commercial bar from 1952 until 1962.my fondest memories are of the primary school,the high parks,over the bing playing,and the outside toilets.simplicity I ...Read more

A memory of Ferniegair by samuelstrachan60

The row of houses on the hillside is Holmclose, a row of council houses built after the Second World War, where I lived from 1950 to 1970. The large building in the foreground is Hinchliffe Mill JMI School where I attended until 1956 when I then went to Holme Valley Grammar School.

A memory of Holmbridge by Mrs M I Davies

I lived in Junction Road, Romford from 1946 until 1954. We lived in the last house but one next to the Railway and Railway Bridge. There was a long drive leading to the bridge which was slightly uphill or downhill whichever way ...Read more

A memory of Romford by Mary Hill

I was born in Catley Lanehead in 1955 and lived in the back of the shop at the top of Smallshaw Road with my mum and dad. My nan Agnes lived across the road from the Chapel further down and not long after we moved a few doors down ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale by susanbarrett2015

This picture was taken outside the Bus Shelter and public toilets in the centre of old Corringham where the number 2A Eastern National Buses used to stop for a 15 min break on the journey from Southend to Grays. Directly opposite ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by thestockies

I was born at 7, Nightingale Row, in the box room which was originally shared by my mother Mavis Warren and her sister Glennis Byard as they were to become. The daughters of George and Martha (Dot) Edwards. The house was rented from ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd by howardwarren257

HI. Nice to see the photo and comment . I was born in 1945 ,half a mile inland at the crescent, an half circle of 15 brick bungalows. probably built in the mid 1930's. I worked on the Farm mentioned it was called Mount ...Read more

A memory of Aldbrough by Richard Michael Robinson