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I was born at 42 Stanley Avenue Portslade, on 21st July 1944. We moved to Shoreham after the war and Dad ran a small transport cafe, which, last time I visited it was a bookmakers called ...Read more

A memory of Shoreham-By-Sea by chrissy-harris

It's quite some time since I submitted my 'War Times, and a bit more' and having read a few later submissions I thought I might as well add a few more observations. Many have suggested that for those who moved away many years ago ...Read more

A memory of Colindale by Jack Luxon

I grew up in Hoxton in the 40/50’s. I went to Whitmore School in Gopsall Street, leaving in 1953. I remember busy Hoxton market with all the stalls and shops, funny how some remain more in your memory, the pie and mash shop, ...Read more

A memory of Hoxton by Maureen Halliday

I was a 9 year old boarder at the Meath School for a year in 1981/1982. In those days the school was a state specialist convalescence school for respiratory diseases. I remember my time in Ottershaw fondly. Each week we'd ...Read more

A memory of Ottershaw by anthony_fairhurs

The following is taken from my mother's memoirs and the time period Winifred would have worked at the Lodge was between 1929-1932. Her mother, Ann Pamela Myring (b 1887), is described as a 'Housemaid Domestic' in the ...Read more

A memory of Shenstone Lodge School by hilary.tait

I was born in woodgate street nine Ellms lane Battersea in November 1936, all the people older than me who were around at that time must have passed away. In our house lived my grandparents, my mum and dad, brother jock, sister ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by squiresdp

1950's: As a young lad I lived just a few minutes from this park (which is in Cleethorpes not Grimsby) and so spent a lot of time there. This pond was home to many hundreds of small fish, which I assume to be sticklebacks and ...Read more

A memory of Grimsby by John Ellingford

I left the Royal Navy in late 1971 and worked in Zermatt Switzerland for a short time when I applied and got my first head chef position in England I was 21 yrs old, The owners then were MR & Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Coverack by Patrick Horan

I LIVED IN Scotland Bridge Road, New Haw, just down the road from West Byfleet. I attended WB primary school and then briefly the secondary school before I went to Woking Grammar. These were very happy days. I worked ...Read more

A memory of West Byfleet by tonyvermot

Doesn't anyone there remember the Park Lane Ballroom, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights (if you could afford it!. I often wonder what happened to some of the lovely girls that went there and taught me to jive, where are you Noreen, ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by frank.aylard