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I remember being in Heswall Hospital at Christmas and a Nativity scene being in the entrance to the ward. I used to sleep on a wooden 'Nelson' to help drain the mucous from my infected lung, with the bi-fold doors wide open for the ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1950 by Elsie Gillham

When I was a small lad, my uncle Ted, me and his dog 'Petra' would go for walks in the woods. We would often stop here and look around. I always thought it was haunted and was initially quite scared to be there... but over time ...Read more

A memory of Woking in 1965 by Des Wisson

I was so surprised to find this site – pleasantly so! I now live in South Africa, but was born in Sunninghill in 1943. My mother told me when I was old enough, that I had been premature, jaundiced (apparently ...Read more

A memory of Ascot in 1953 by Janet Sanders

I remember my parents and my sisters and I moving to live in a hut about 1955. My father had been commissioned as an Officer and after about 1 year, we moved to "the big house" which was a large property at the ...Read more

A memory of Finningley in 1955 by Dianne Jones

My dad had a shop in Kennards Arcade, mending, making and selling dentures. I helped him on Saturdays selling his own brand of denture cleaner called 'Sparkdent'. My first half-crown pay was spent on a ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1963

Sadness sometimes comes to US when we least expect it too and people that we care about we may take for granted true I know that it was not your story you cared an awfull lot So you must make the very best of everything that you have ...Read more

A memory of Corlough in 2012 by Anne O'keeffe

Its amazing to think that almost fifty years have flown by since I enrolled at "Harrow Tech" for evening classes. I had just left Pinner Grammar School after A Levels and started work at the Bank of England in the City and ...Read more

A memory of Harrow in 1963 by John Howard Norfolk

I went to a brand new primary school called Park Farm, so then going to Elmwwod was like going back in time. I just caught the end of Stacey walking around like something out of Harry Potter. My brother had told me about the ...Read more

A memory of Hackbridge in 1967 by Martin Wiseman

We moved in to a brand new semi, No. 22, before the war in August 1938. The Rappapore family lived at No 20 and the Bannisters at No. 24. On the outbreak of war we were evacuated to my great Aunt in Ludlow until the ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1930 by Richard Stinton

I was born in 1952 and lived with my grandparents, mum and dad in Cross Whitehouse Row, Hunslet. When I was 6 months old we moved up across Hillidge Road to Ashbourne Street and then up to Belle Isle when I was about 4. It was a new house, ...Read more

A memory of Hunslet