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For the last six years I have been looking at the families living in Heath Hayes and Norton Canes, and how these villages were so closely linked. Tracing my own family it was interesting to find that in the 18th ...Read more

A memory of Heath Hayes by Sue Baron

Born in Bulwell in 1959. I remember initially going to Cantrall Road school which was really nice. I remember Mrs Hare the headmistress, Mr Anderson and Mr Richy. I liked the latter but not Mr Anderson as he wiped ...Read more

A memory of Bulwell in 1964 by Keith Hull

I was also in this Fever Hospital with Scarlet Fever for three weeks I was 9 or 10. I clearly remember being rushed there in an ambulance wrapped tightly in a blanket with a bag of sweets stuffed down my front. I felt very ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1947 by Anne Chadwick

In the summer of 1960 I spent my Westminster Hotel School holiday working at The Pier Hotel in Seaview, Isle of Wight, mostly working in the dining room (that white windowed section protruding on the left). Funnily, I don't ...Read more

A memory of Seaview by Dylan Rivis

I MOVED TO STEVENAGE LIKE MOST YOUNG PEOPLE AT THAT TIME TO GET A HOUSE YOU HAD NO CHANCES ELSEWHERE MY BROTHER ALREADY LIVED THERE SO I WAS ABLE TO LODGE WITH HIM GOT A JOB AT BEA SYSTEMS AS AN AID STOREKEEPER HAVING BEEN ...Read more

A memory of Stevenage

I worked at Wannock Tea Gardens during the school holidays. I remember all the slices of Bread we had to butter and I still make sure that it reaches out to each corner. We really had to work hard carrying heavy crockery to the ...Read more

A memory of Polegate by Jeanne Fry

I have lived in Chadwell Heath for many years now, and I seem to recall a Greengrocers in the High Road which was owned by Barry Kitchener the Millwall footballer, am I correct or did I imagine it. It has changed so much now but not always for the better unfortunately. Mary H

A memory of Chadwell Heath

In 1955, just after my brother was born, we moved from West Ham to Forest Gate (Norwich Road). I was 8 years old and starting a new school was traumatic to say the least. My elder sister was at Plaistow Grammar School, so it did not ...Read more

A memory of Forest Gate by r.harcourt187

It was around the first or second week of November 1940 and I was still to be born. Mum and Dad [and me] lived at 252 Percy Road. Dad worked at the BSA and Mum was pregnant with me. Mum had just made a pot of tea when the Air Raid ...Read more

A memory of Sparkhill by john.taylor2711

We moved to Bayston Hill ( shrewsbury) around 1990... A beautiful leafy lane .. Grove Lane... no. 8.. We had our dog.. ( Biko) and soon got settled.. our neighbours were; no. 6 were Bunny and Barbara Hancock... amazing ...Read more

A memory of Bayston Hill by Pat Gomersall