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My name was Betty Knowles, my family and I also lived in Hayes Lane at number 48, and my grandfarther lived next door, his name was Wilfred Poole. I remember the ash bank over the road where we use to put jacket potatoes in the ...Read more

A memory of Lye in 1959 by Betty Brownlow

I was born at 6 Victory Villas 8/25/47 My Mom, Iris Law, married an American serviceman and we moved to Boston in 1963. I still miss Fairford and consider it my home. Attended all the local schools. Remember those walks to school ...Read more

A memory of Fairford in 1947 by Diane Sacramone

I have fond memories of Strone. My mother was the warden at the SYHA hostel at Strone which was Dunselma on the hill. Strone Primary was my first school. I remember the US floating docks and the protesters ...Read more

A memory of Strone in 1959 by Gavin Redfern

My name is John Jeffrey. Our family lived in the sandstone buildings across from Youngs Windows known as Munroe Place. Our house number was 66 Millbank Road. I remember a few names when growing up there till ...Read more

A memory of Wishaw

When I was a kid I had to walk from Pound Hill to Barkers every Saturday morning to fetch a gallon of Blucole paraffin for my dad. Barkers was the local garage/taxl rank. We lived in Pearson Road and then moved to Mill Road, Three ...Read more

A memory of Three Bridges in 1955 by Roger Jones

Montpelier night club down the hill from the war memorial. Does anyone remember the club in the 1960s? The night club was one of best late night spots in Yorkshire. Dance floor, meals, bar and gaming room. Cabaret artists ...Read more

A memory of Harrogate in 1966 by John White

I lived In Flavell Road, Wandsworth SW18, from around the age of 5 years (1959) to 1965 approx. Flavell Road was demolished To make the dual carriageway we have today. My grand parents lived in Bramford Road and my aunt in ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by Sheila Fowler

I'm sure Barnet Cinema is well remembered, but I cannot find any photograph of it. Another building that I recall is GOTHIC HOUSE which stood at the top of Baker's Hill and overlooked Clifford Road golf course ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1950 by Roland Wood

How lovely to read all these memories and what a lot I had forgotten over the years! I too, was born in Thornton House (1951) in Warwick Toad, I never realised that it used to be a school. In later years it was turned into ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1951 by Anthea Post

Both my grandparents were in service at Kirkham Hall in the 1920s and 30s. My Grandma, Annie Morris, originally from Newcastle, joined her Aunt Annie (who was cook) there when she was in her teens and ...Read more

A memory of Kirkham in 1930