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Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

I may be a year out with the date, apologies.I vividly remember the day a young Queen Elizabeth II visited my home town of Dewsbury. We were in a fever of excitement at my Junior and Infants school, waiting for the bus to take us ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury in 1954 by Megan Clarkson

Our family lived at Lightwater (1 High View Road) ; I passed 11 plus and was sent to Frimley And Camberley County Grammar School, starting in Sept. 1959. One of the first things we had to do was to get the uniform. We ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by tobypaws2002

I went here wi my wee sister roughly 1975, I was 8 n she was 3, we went on a bus from buchanan St. I think our dorm was called ambrosia, top of the stairs & along to the right, I think there where 6/8 beds in it, I ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by Catherine Mccormack

My memories of Collingwood began with my very first day there, in 1948, when I was l was left alone in a big empty hall, not knowing what to do! Eventually one of the teachers came in, saying crossly, " Why are ...Read more

A memory of Wallington by Gillian Bryan

I spent spent six weeks there with Scarlet fever. Dinner always seemed to be greens, potatoes and mince , which I still love . The footsteps of the nurses along the wooden outside corridors meant those big injections were ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Peter Davies

Hello, I hope there are still folks alive to remember 1966 beating the bounds in Kerswell village. My mum and dad , Don and Cynthia Plummer, ran the old Halfway pub opposite the old greyhound track. And ...Read more

A memory of Kingskerswell by David Plummer

After two ''BIG C'' scares and an operation I finally managed to get back to the HALFWAY HOUSE (Sept 09)....seemed just like yesterday Steve and Kim were so friendly...How the area had changed oxton school had gone also Birkenhead ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 2009 by Mike Dennis

In the 1950's I used to ride my pony from the Leatherhead Road in Gt. Bookham through Fetcham to Leatherhead to get to the blacksmiths.  The blackmsiths was a proper big old forge at Prewetts Dairy off Randals Road. I used ...Read more

A memory of Fetcham by Paula Clements