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If you enlarge this picture you can see the letter ERS on the white building behind St Margarets. This was Suters, a family owned department store, built very much in the art deco style and the retail flagship of Uxbridge ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1955 by Philip Cousins

I was born at Mayday Hospital 1953. I had an older brother, John Read, and sisters, Judith and Gillian. John went to the Catholic school St Peters and Gillian and me went to the convent in Lingfield until we all emigrated to ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1962 by Clare Read

Does anyone remember the off lience next to the Winstanley Arms pub in Winstanley Rd please? My nan ran it and I was born there. I can remember a bakers/dairy opposite it. My nan moved there during the war and was there ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1951 by Charlotte Norman

I attended St John's from 1952 to 1959. This was an all girl's church school with about 60 children in three classrooms, with a hall where we had dinner and danced to the BBC's "Music and Movement". We used ...Read more

A memory of West Hendon in 1952 by Lorraine Allen

I remember summers being summers & winters being hellish with feet upon feet of snow. Being snowed in for weeks, but Mam always had a full pantry. You had to be really organised and I dont remember ever being hungry. Summer ...Read more

A memory of Byrness in 1973

I was born in Redhill but lived for my fist 12 years at 16 Dunraven Avenue, my father, William (Bill) Park worked at the Monotype most of his working life, he was in the sand-blasting area. I went to Salfords school ...Read more

A memory of Salfords in 1949 by Peter Park

As a child in the late 50's I used live in Fairfield Street opposite the Monks Abbey. Every day after the school day was finished at Monks Road school, I used play around the Abbey ruins and Fosters field as well as the ...Read more

A memory of Lincoln in 1957 by David Edwards

This is Scarborough Road near junction to Scamston. You can just see the old village hall on left. David Beans milk place next door.

A memory of Rillington by Ian Vasey

My mom had the sweet shop on Croydon Road at Wallington Green. The fire alarm was sounded by Ken on his way home in the early hours after finishing his night shift. This was told to us, by Ken, at Mom’s sweet shop next ...Read more

A memory of Beddington in 1963 by Colin Savage

I was born in what used to be the Aldersbrook Maternity Home and lived in Shakespeare Crescent, Manor Park until my parents moved in 1983 to a flat in Aldersbrook which had been the maternity home - talk about coming full ...Read more

A memory of East Ham