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We lived just down the street from this corner and it all seemed so small to me after returning from eight years in Canada. I had left England at age 5 and came back at age 13 which was quite a culture shock for me. But Slough and area ...Read more

A memory of Slough in 1959 by Carolyn Babin

Not sure exactly the last time we were at this park, but it was after 1960, that's the year my brother was born, and we came to Canada in 1964, so it was sometime or several times in between. I am pretty sure I still have an ...Read more

A memory of Kettering in 1962 by Helen Rayner

My parents had what they called their 'shopping account' with Barclays in Sunningdale - the main account was in Weybridge. About once a week my mother would go into Barclays to withdraw cash, and I would love to go with her. ...Read more

A memory of Sunningdale in 1950 by Barry O'dwyer

I remember when The Beatles came to The Wood in 1963 to record the Morecambe & Wise show at the ATV Studios off Eldon Avenue. Me & a couple of mates from school (Holmshill) played truant to wait at the back of Studio Gates ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1963

My great granny, Genty Jenkins (nee Roberts), her husband David, and their baby Celia camped by the Robin Hood in Pontnewynydd, Abersychan in 1911 in a tent. Gentys sister, Celia Attewell (nee Roberts) was there with her husband ...Read more

A memory of Abersychan in 1910 by R K

I was born in a house next to the canal at Trench Lock in 1950 and lived for 10 years in the Old Orchard, now long gone but reached up a short lane leading to Somerfeld's steel works. In 1960 my family moved to ...Read more

A memory of Hadley in 1960 by Keith Harris

My mother is 83 years old, she lived at No.1 St Georges Terrace, her name before marriage was Joan Cowlishaw. She lived with her father, Jack, who was a french polisher and mother Olive, an older brother William, and ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Amanda Page

My family moved to Ormskirk in 1960 when I was three. My father was starting a teaching course at Edge Hill and we lived in a flat over the coal board (next door to Clarks Shoes) in Church Street. Our surname was Byard back then. ...Read more

A memory of Ormskirk by Christine Glover

I was 19 years old when I was to move over to Newbury but at first I was roughing it until I could find cheap enough accommodation. At times, due to me being not able to get a good old scrub down and also a clean change of clothes; ...Read more

A memory of Newbury in 1968 by Roland Mitchell

Thay say that everyone remembers where they were when the news came out that President Keneddy had been shot. Well this is where I was; Friday night was dance night at the youth club and I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Merstham in 1963