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Not sure what glyn.brian7 was seeing out the back of the Regent Cafe, but my mum and dad ran a cafe on weekends in Chipstead at the entrance to Banstead woods from the late 1940's until the early 60's and my dad was the only ...Read more

A memory of Sutton by carocatsaak

hi I found your memories by chance x I lived in dabbs hill from 1965 till 79 x I too went to Vincent x hung out at West end youth club which was opp target x went to old field n birds nest x I was a skin head with my mate ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by hils_p07

Although I did not live at 10-Mile Bank, my mother told me much about her life there. She lived right by the large bridge over the River Great Ouse with her Mother, Lilian, Dad, Harry, and brothers and ...Read more

A memory of Ten Mile Bank by shropshirelily

We moved to Derby Road in 1965 from West Thurrock after the farm closed and we could no longer live in a tied cottage. Next door to hatters garage. The house is no longer there as that area was demolished to build the new ...Read more

A memory of Grays by armchair5511

I have very fond memories of growing up in Aveley. I was born in a prefab in 1947 at 4 East Walk, my dad worked at Thames Board Mills clocking up over 30 years of service (he died in Field Road in 1970), like everyone born ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by drbcasa

I started my life in Stevenage at the age of 10 when we moved from London and my dad was given a house in Holly Leys, Longmeadow. I went to the Roebuck Junior School and I remember the long walk ...Read more

A memory of Stevenage by gwenausten

I was born in 1941 my dad bought the house in Lower Morden Lane in 1939,I went to Morden Farm School. Morden was a great place to be as a child I remember starting school and not liking it one bit I only started liking it in the last few ...Read more

A memory of Morden by David Huggett

Late night a watched a 1963 film "the Birds" and remember how it scared the living daylight out of me and my family! I was 5 and holidaying in Silverdale with my Large family ! I remember having to pinch the keys up from the post office ...Read more

A memory of Silverdale by Kevin Matthews

I just wanted to add my pennysworth. My sister Mary Mooring worked at Critalls back in the '40s and 50s. She first worked in the Braintree division, but then I think was transferred to Witham. On my return from New Zealand in '55 I invited ...Read more

A memory of Braintree by lenmooring

Having been an exiled Scot since 1966 I was rather dismayed to discover that Motherwell Central School (later known as Brandon High), which I attended in the late 1950’s, had been demolished recently. I clearly ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell in 1958 by John Cunningham