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My name is Margaret Saunders. I was born at 3 Theobald Street, but at sometime we moved to 18a Theobald Street. I went to Furzehill Infant and Junior schools, then on to Lyndhurst. We lived over the shop that was the stationers, ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1948 by Margaret Wilson

My sister Wendy and I went to school at The Sacred Heart Convent on Erith Rd in the early '50s. I remember being taught by nuns in traditional nun's habits. But one teacher who wasn't a nun I remember because she was called ...Read more

A memory of Erith in 1954 by Marian (Aka Brooke) Lydbrooke (Nee Cope)

The "Rec" was the place to be in the 1970's when you lived on the Cedar Rd Estate. We lived just round the corner on Elmdale Rd and had a garden which backed on the Rec. This was a good short cut into the Rec. Lived there as a young ...Read more

A memory of Earl Shilton by Andrew Christon

My memories of Walthamstow are mainly of other people - but here goes! My son was born in 1965 in Thorpe Coombe Hospital, where some of the people who have posted memories on this site were born. Before 1934 my ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow in 1965 by Diana Dioszeghy

I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned ...Read more

A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by Donald Rumbold

I am puzzled as to which year this photo was taken. It must have been very late fifties because my earliest memory of The Rest Garden, as we called it, was when it was still recognizeable as a graveyard. The gravestones ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

Hello. My dad, Horace Jenkins, worked as a coach lettering painter for British Rail in Thornaby for most of his life. He died at 17 The Larches, Teesville in 1953 at the age of 46. He was the best lettering ...Read more

A memory of Thornaby-on-Tees in 1950 by Muriel Redd

I had the perfect Job for me when I was 10. John (Jacky) Robinson had me working for him on the horse and cart. Fridays and Saturdays you could hear us walking the streets of Easington - our famous yell was "ANY ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1969 by Kevin Wilson

Hi, I have been looking for a site like this so I could look back at Pinehurst. I was the longest serving boy at the home - went in at 8 and came out at 16. 1979 was when I started a good life there. I have so many great ...Read more

A memory of Pinehurst in 1979 by Bruce Ingles

My name in the sixties was Marilyn Pooley, I lived at St Blazey and went to Fowey School. I have been raising my family for the last 40 years and now fancy looking back at my younger days. One of the ...Read more

A memory of Tywardreath in 1966 by Marilyn Brown