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I often think back to the days of going around on my Raleigh Grifter, all my other friends on their choppers or a Raleigh Burner if you were really rich! We used to cycle up to Webheath Estate and think we were the ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1981 by Wayne Robinson

I was born in 1950, and only left when I married in 1973. I remember the donkey rides in Kennard Arcade in the 50's - they had little bells on their harnesses and for sixpence you could have a ride which seemed like for ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1955 by Rosie Lee

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

My name is Jenny and when I lived in Northolt I was named Jenny Shepheard. If anyone remembers me I would love to hear from them. I went out with a guy called Steve Hewlett for many years whose mum and dad were called ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Jenny Dawes (Shepheard)

As a child we lived in the Vista and our back garden ran alongside the cow fields, my friends and I would go across the farm to get into the palace grounds. There was a swimming pool that had dirty water in that was perfect for ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1959 by Jill Parish

Hi, Just looking at some old family photos of us fishing by the Swans Neck at Birlingham back in the early 60s when I was about 12. I come from Birmingham and the place my father worked was Mitchells and Butlers brewery who ...Read more

A memory of Birlingham by Michael Lewis

Hello, I was born in Crewe in 1947 and lived in Lockett St with my mother and father and 3 brothers. When I was about 3 or 4 we moved to the village of Weston about 3 miles from Crewe. We lived in Weston till 1963, ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1960 by Alan Pitchford

Back in 1971, I joined a friend from London on a surfing trip to Polzeath. I'm from America, and was in the middle of a year-long jaunt around Europe and North Africa. I hadn't gone surfing in several months and was ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath in 1971 by Joel Sanoff

I have vivid memories of Tolworth Broadway. As a child I was born in Tolworth (strictly Kingston Hospital in April 1948 just for my birth that is). Mum, my sister and I would go to the Broadway ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by Christine Roberts

I've picked the year '67 but I honestly don't rememer, it was '67 or '68, possibly even '69. Anyway, my friends and I used to frequent the ground floor disco in The Glebe every weekend. It was the highlight of ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1967 by Anne Bell