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Our family had already started plans to emigrate to Canada in 1956. I graduated from North End Secondary Modern after completing my O levels in June. I needed a job for a few months until we left in November. I heard that Dr ...Read more

A memory of Chandler's Ford by joannablacklock

I lived in Buckhurst Hill from when I was 6 until I was 16. We lived at 94 and then 108 Princes Road. My maiden name was Rasmussen, I am Susan, and had a sister Tina, two, years older than me and a brother Bob. Bob ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by sue.gravenor

I was born Leslie Dennis Crutch in Grove Road 1948. My brother Ken was born 9 months after dad (Ronald Kenneth) had gone to Normandy as part of the landings - I was born 9 months after he was demobbed (funny that) to mum Winifred ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Les Saunders

Now Andrew Goatley will sing the blessing: “Lord, receive us with thy blessings Once again assembled here. Pardon all, their faults confessing, Year by year, a richer ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by David Browne

In reply to Keith Hawkins' appeal to anyone that knew of F.W. Hawkins shop on Hosier Street, Reading, I used this shop during the 1950s as a small boy while spending the weekends with my Nan & Grandad who lived at 61 ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1955 by John Shrubb

Does any one remember me? My name is Robert Cox. I lived at 47 Sheridan Road right next to the lane that went down to the tip (now built on). I went to Upper Horfield School and I still remember my first day at the school in ...Read more

A memory of Horfield in 1967 by Robert Cox

I too remember the Godrey Talbot talk at Prize Giving. I also remember we were given the afternoon off school to get ready, and given book tokens before the event to purchase a book that would be presented on the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Linda Lavin

In 1955 I was 9 years old and lived at No. 16 Putney Hill, which was on the right in this picture and if memory serves was the house before the white one behind the tree. My grandfather owned the tobacconist and ...Read more

A memory of Putney in 1955 by Rod Chunn

We came to Shaftesbury from Singapore in 1955, when I was 4 and only spoke Malay. We rented part of the then rambling old house called Green Close, at the bottom of a hill. We then moved to 3 Lower Blandford Road and started ...Read more

A memory of Shaftesbury in 1956 by Josephine Morris Turner

Born 1946, lived at Prospect Farm, Hardisty Hill till 1972. Then got married, returned in 1978 to 2 Hardisty Hill, known in them days as the Airey houses. Parents still lived at Prospect Farm. Went to Fewston School then to ...Read more

A memory of Blubberhouses in 1946 by David Marston