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In about 1961 my father became the manager of Blackbushe Airport. As a result my mother, brother (16) and I (9) moved from our comfortable town house in Cheltenham to a large mobile home attached to, what was then, the ...Read more

A memory of Blackbushe Airport in 1961 by Nikki Mc Allister Freeman

I moved to Mitcham Road, Tooting, near Amen Corner and next to St Boniface Church, from Putney at the age of five. The year was 1947. The maisonette we lived in was above a perfume factory, it’s now an Indian restaurant called ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1950 by Kit Wells

The entry regarding Gladstone Road and the Mission brought back many memories. As a child I went to Sunday School there when Father Clarke was in charge and Mrs Smith ran a handicrafts club on Thursdays after school. On the corner ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1950 by Maureen Draper

I think it was Colin who remembered that the 118 bus went from Clapham Common to the Cricketers. Well, Colin (or whoever it was), it went all the way to Raynes Park. I lived in Meopham Road, Mitcham, the upper part of which ran ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by Douglas Tunbridge

As a small child I remember going to Wilkies fish shop in Western Road and from the counter you could see into their living room at the back. They had a huge fish tank filled with bright coloured fish and I felt very priviledged ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Trudy Simpson

My nan and grandad owned Davidson's greengrocer's in Mitcham, and my mum and dad lived there with them in the 50's early 60's before moving to Cornwall, and I have very fond but distant memories of holiday's and Christmas's ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1970

Have to say reading the entries of everyone’s memories is simply wonderful. Both my parents grew up in Mitcham, my father John Stockley who was Mitcham born and bred, married my mother Jean Nightingale in the church in Church Road back ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1969 by Paul Nightingale

I grew up in Mitcham, born in 1976 and left there in about 1997. I feel like I have two Mitchams in my head - the old and the new. I felt a link with the place because my dad had grown up there and my grandad had links with Morfax and ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Jim Pearson

I lived in Frith Road, Croydon and was in the same class as some of my friends who went on the trip to Norway. My parents couldn't afford the price for the trip (at that stage their were seven of us!). I went with the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1961 by Alan Oliver

I first came to Pagham in 1965, we used to holiday at Church Farm Caravan Site and in those days it was run by John and Shirley Romaine. I have fond memories of Buster and Cocker from my Church Farm Days and I remember ...Read more

A memory of Pagham by Elaine Bradley Fowler