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My parents moved from Hackney East London to Orchard Road in 1958, I was two years old. Orchard Road connected to New Road by way of a pedestrian break in a hedge between the two roads, New Road was unmade in those early days. A ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield by michaelyoules

Living in Langdon Place was a real advantage when attending Mortlake Primary. 2 mins from registration and guess what nearly always late. A real little community on its own where we lived. All my brothers went to the same ...Read more

A memory of Mortlake by jim

I can vividly remember Blythe Mansions, I used to go there with my late mother to visit an aunt and other relatives who lived there, I can still see it now, there were two sections of the estate as I recall, with two half ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey by john.cashin64

Among the lovely pictures of 1950s Oakwood is a picture of a lake in Oakwood Park for model boats which I used in the late forties and early 50s. Sailing boats there was a favourite pastime of my friend and neighbour (at the time) Alan ...Read more

A memory of Oakwood by Roger Crunden

My first memories of Motherwell was living down the Daisy Park at 18 Braidhurst Street and watching the new housing scene being built opposite my house ,the old mill used provide a perfect brae for our bogies which consisted an ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell by Alexander Mc Bride

I came upon this site by chance and it brought back so many memories I thought I would share a few. I was born in Fritzlands Lane No. 151 this was my Grandparents house, at the age of 4 or 5 my Mum and Dad were ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham

I remember, Bertha the old lady that often sat on her doorstep facing the Apollo top of Apsley Grove just quietly having a smoke, never bothering anyone and watching the world pass her by. One Saturday morning on the way to the ...Read more

A memory of Ardwick by twodpoletudor

i remember in the mid 60s my friends and i jumping off the farleigh bridge, how on earth we didn't break our necks i will never know, we stayed almost every summer week-end in the hopping huts, and had to come back to london late ...Read more

A memory of East Farleigh by flamefix

We holidayed in Barmston for two weeks each summer, being a family of six who travelled from Huddersfield. My dad was a turner for a large engineering company who formally was a 'regular' in REME seeing active service throughout the ...Read more

A memory of Barmston

I went to st.helens school in valley road from 1955- 59 I remember miss tarry and miss howling who was very scary. If you got 3 very goods for your work you had to see miss howling for a gold star; however waiting to see her for ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by quick_thinker2003