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Re: St Mary's wednesday morning church service at Dewhurst Secondary as it was known in those days, I remember Stan Mathews falling asleep on his knees as in prayer. My mother now lives in the alms house next to the church, so ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt in 1963 by Trevor Monk

My Grandads family were from Horton, as far as I know they had a farm here. My Grandad (Kenneth Grove) moved to the Northeast of England when he married my Nan. My Grandad died in 1984, when I was 4 years old, and ...Read more

A memory of Horton

I lived in Kilburn from 1936 to 1969. The Gaumont State cinema was part of my life as a teenager. It was one of a number of cinemas in the area at that time and every Saturday evening I would go to the 'pictures' ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1952 by Fred Parker

V. E. day was a great day, as I clearly remember it. I remember cycling up High Street with a flag on my handlebars, and a propeller whizzing round in the wind, which we made out of wood, it was a popular with the kids at that time. ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1945 by Bob Marriott

What a delight to find this site. It reminded me of so much. My grandparents did a moonlight flit from Bethnel Green, walking to Tooting with four boys, one girl and a pram carrying Gran's pride and joy, a mangle. Three weeks ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Frances Shaw Sartori

I am writing this because I have been back to Clara visiting after I was contacted by Brian and Helen who now live in me Granda's house, they had read my memories of Newburn which mentioned Clara and sent me a message. Me Grandad ...Read more

A memory of Clara Vale in 1947 by Jimmy Burrows

In 1942 aged 5 due to my father being a shipwright in the Portsmouth Dockyard he was transferred to a satellite dockyard at Dunstaffnage where we stayed as a family until the war finished and we then moved back to ...Read more

A memory of Oban in 1942 by Brian Woodward

I was born in 1945 at the end of the Second World War at was then 3 Park Villas, Goff's Lane, the home of my grandmother, Alice Emma James. House renumbering during the 1950s resulted in the house becoming 393 ...Read more

A memory of Goff's Oak by Leslie Selby

My name is Derek Hall, the brother to Martin Hall & Pamela Hall, we used to live at No 3 Eardiston View in Menith Wood in the 1960s with our mom Velta Hall. I am now 58 years old living in London with four ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood in 1965 by derekhall2006

There was a rag and bone man on Church Street whom we knew as Charlie. Every week local housewives would gather in his yard to buy secondhand clothing and toys which he would auction from the back of a cart laden ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1948