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My name is David Garner and I was born in 1942 and lived in Faringdon Road, My Great Uncle was Charles Jeyes a building contractor and was also a Past Chairman and President of Luton Town Football Club I went to school at Leagrave Junior School and eventually to The Technical school on Park Square

A memory of Luton by David Garner

When I was in my early teens birdnesting I got caught on the Swan neck pipe in the top right hand side of shop and had to be rescued by Bill Parker who lived opposite. He had to hold the only available ladder on his ...Read more

A memory of Little Sandhurst by bugsymason

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

I found this cutting from the Lynn News & Advertiser, Friday, January 12, 1968 and thought it might be of interest to others. IF ANYONE COULD BE CALLED ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton by geoffhunter

My twin brother and I were born in 1936 in King Edward Road, a stones throw from the old dance hall and the Westbury Arms Pub. We started our education at Westbury Infants and Junior School where the Head Master ...Read more

A memory of Barking by cliffordsmith961

I am currently working on a book about my relatives, the Esplins and Cuthberts who lived in Dysart. Most of our relatives have left Dysart and live spread out over the globe. My grandparents lived down Dysart in Cook St and ...Read more

A memory of Dysart by k.cuthbert

Forget Penge, forget Sydenham, forget Crystal Palace, Anerley had the Town Hall. Centre of the Council Employment. Opposite on the north side of Anerley Road, on the railway bridge, were two kiosk shops which my earliest ...Read more

A memory of Anerley by Bob Hakewill

My name is Jacqueline Billingsley. I was sent here in the 1950's from hospital due to kidney problems. I remember the Matron who would take her small dog for walks every morning in the woods. Being very fond of dogs even at a ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by jacbill15

I'm researching my dad's family.... the New Bolsover Colliery opening 1898 where my grandad Walter Lunn moved from Bourne to Bolsover.. and I have been led to Cawthorne as his father James Lunn was born in 1807...Well that was a tiny ...Read more

A memory of Cawthorpe by Christine Evans

It was nice to read of some familiar names that lived in Seaton at the same time as me, Jon Sandy for one. I often think of Jane Sandy and where she is now. I came to live in Seaton when I was 2 years old in ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1958 by Lynda Collins