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I was born in Croydon in 1954 and lived in Addiscombe all my life. I went to Woodside School and also Ashburton Secondary Modern in Shirley Road. Both Addiscombe and Croydon have changed so much. I remember Kennards, C&A and Debenhams and when buses ran through Croydon town centre.

A memory of Croydon by bailey143

I was born in Davidson Road in 1942 and went to Davidson Road School. I remember we had blackboards and chalk to start with. We had music lessons and all learnt to play an instrument and also to read simple music (can't do that any ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by reneeshipley0

I went to old Harlow College during the war. I remember walking across the fields to Harlow Mill where us boys used to swim. It was a very strict college with prefects. It was run on the style of the Cambridge ...Read more

A memory of Harlow by bernard.hagon

Does any one remember a train at the woodside center why was it there .also a outdoor swimming pool.

A memory of Woodside in 1975

I was actually born in KCH in the 1960's , but my parents lived in Grange Road, Upper Norwood - and that is where I spent my childhood. Went to All Saints School, Westwood and Lady Edridge Schools. Lessons with the boys from ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe

My name is Julie and my Mum and Dad are Joan and Tom Street (Mum has passed away). I have wonderful memories of Cuffley and lived there from the age of 5 to 19 years in Homewood Avenue; we moved there in 1963. My Mum loved to ...Read more

A memory of Cuffley in 1970 by Julie Luckin

Oh, yes, the number 77 bus, I met my husband on this bus. Seems it was a magic number for meeting future husbands. We used to get off at Granger Avenue, opposite The Swan. We had many wonderful trips on this ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1966 by Susan Hibbert

Ah Whittlebury! Always knew that infamous dump would surface on the www sooner or later. A regime model for any totalitarian state, I still remember the oppression and dehumanisation that prevailed there, where the ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1960 by Simon Gwynn

I was born in 1934 and lived in Iveston for 18 years, leaving reluctantly in 1952. We first lived beside the duckpond, in the cottage attached to Letch Farm, run then or later by Mr and Mrs Harrison. Avis Harrison baked my ...Read more

A memory of Iveston in 1940 by Margaret Dixon

Memory of Amersham College Woodside Road From my home in Wendover, I was a pupil at Amersham College during those difficult times during 1944 to 1949. Sign on board at front of school Prop. Chas J. Holland 'Hons. ...Read more

A memory of Amersham by dwwheeler