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Northolt Wonderland

I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Philip Yorke Edgell

The Start Of A Wonderful Marriage

My wife and I married here on the 17th Feb 1977 and we've not regretted a day since. It poured with rain going in but the sun shone coming out. That has just about summed things up for us. The Rev Wood and Rev Carr ...Read more

A memory of Saltash by Chris Scott

Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I

Every now and then I reminisce and take a trip down memory lane, of my childhood days growing up in Newarthill on Burnside Rd. I remember Tosh McGarry and I going to Father Gillan's jumble sale and buying an old fox ...Read more

A memory of Newarthill by Peter Laird

Machine Gunned On Churston Drive By A Young German Pilot

My Aunt Joyce (born 1931) used to live on Churston Drive. She told me this morning about how she was walking to school with a friend one morning during the war when a German plane machine-gunned ...Read more

A memory of Morden by David Stephenson

Walderslade Thoughts

I live in the house where I was born in Walderslade. I have a huge collection of memories as, being 64 things that linger in the memory are triggered by living in the place you grew up. Kit Hill Avenue was originally cut ...Read more

A memory of Walderslade by Dave Tutt

Growing Up

My father came back from war in 1946 I was born in 1948 in Salisbury my father rented a flint cottage in the middle of the woods at Beach’s barn (they were demolished many years ago ) my father was born in Everleigh the family were ...Read more

A memory of Beach's Barn by Ronald Ayres

The Great Children's Summer Garden Party

During the1950's, long before the introduction of Green Shield and other reward stamps, members of the Co-operative Society in the days before the Co-op as we know it today, earned tin coin cash money to ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Error And My Memory/Memories Of Sonning Common...

Not sure if it is an error, but 'Brinnds Corner' is spelt 'B-R-I-N-D-S C-O-R-N-E-R' after the butchers shop, (now an off-licence), on the corner of Peppard Road/Wood Lane and Brinds Close which ...Read more

A memory of Sonning Common by Philip Reeve

A Lifetime In Bredbury And Woodley

I have so enjoyed reading all the memories of Woodley and Bredbury. I lived on George Lane from 1939 to 1964, and went to St Mark's School in Bredbury. My Dad, Jack Hallsworth, worked at Livingstone's ...Read more

A memory of Woodley by Elizabeth Thompson

Yesterday's Birch

I REMEMBER BIRCH IN 1960'S. THE VILLAGE SHOP WAS RUN BY A JEWISH MAN CALLED MR WOLFE. WHEN YOU CROSSED THE ROAD ON TO WHITTLE LANE THERE WAS A ROW OF HOUSES THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THE WHITE HART PUB . AS YOU WALKED UP THE ...Read more

A memory of Birch by franciscaine7

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