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My father was born in this area and I am trying to find any history of my family. He was born to Frank and May Shelton during the thirtys and probably lived in the area throught the war. They were a big family in the area ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone

I grew up in Kensington and have so many fond memories of it from the early 1980's. I remember the video shop that used to be in the Odeon cinema, which is now a Hagaan Dazs cafe. I remember when the Ice House in Holland ...Read more

A memory of Kensington

Hi, my name is Julie King and l am 51 now. I lived in the greengrocers with my dad, Fred King, and my mum, Pat King, with sisters Maxine, Sharon and brother Terry. The shop was opposite Whitehorse ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath in 1966 by Julie King

I lived at 33 Craigweil Ave from the 1955 to 1973 when I moved to Canada. Best friends were Jonathan Matthews who lived next door and Chris Allum who lived around the block on Newberries Ave. I went to Fair Field School at the ...Read more

A memory of Radlett

My sister, Helen, and I lived at No. 3 Plasnewydd Street and, although Helen now lives in Lechlade in Gloucestershire and I have finally come to rest (no, not dead - yet) in Cardiff, we talk every week and often reminisce ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1947 by Nick Davies

Hi Lesley, How interesting to hear from you. I was born November 6 1950. My mum who lives with me is 91. She says I would have started at the school in Sept 1955, so we never crossed paths. I guess, Mrs Richards was ...Read more

A memory of Bradford-on-Tone in 1958 by Lesley Tribbeck

Just turned eighteen I was to get employment at Woolley Colliery but had to do my training at Grimthorpe Colliery. We had to do underground training and were to spend many hours looking at safety films on what, and what not to ...Read more

A memory of Ecclesfield in 1969 by Roland Mitchell

I have hundreds of happy of memories of Penysarn, the village in which I was born and lived until I was 17. My most vivid is during the year of 'The big freeze', with the roads being impassable, all the village children had the ...Read more

A memory of Penysarn in 1963 by Penny Butler

We came to Shaftesbury from Singapore in 1955, when I was 4 and only spoke Malay. We rented part of the then rambling old house called Green Close, at the bottom of a hill. We then moved to 3 Lower Blandford Road and started ...Read more

A memory of Shaftesbury in 1956 by Josephine Morris Turner

Does anyone remember Cowper's Row at the top of Brixton Hill opposite the "Telegraph' pub? There were two cobbled lane's, one Cowper's Row, the other I forget. Rouplell Park estate ...Read more

A memory of Clapham in 1950 by Mick Street