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In 1949 my father died of TB, contracted whilst serving in Irag/Iran during WWII. At that time many sufferers of the disease were sent to sanitoriums in the European Alps for a cure. My Father died at our house in the village of ...Read more

A memory of Heath End

I was born in the High Street( not the High Road) in 1950 moving to Rugby Avenue in 1953. I lived opposite Graham Rose. I recall the Sudbury Motors Garage. They had Morgan 3 wheelers and drove them up and down Rugby Avenue. Happy memories of Barham Park and Vale Farm swimming pool.

A memory of Wembley by philrpharm

I was born in chapel street number 14wich was the back of a shop next to gittens it was owned by mrs price who also lived there at the back of the house my grandmother dolly perry had 2 shops along the high street and a ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill by ex123moor

I remember going to the shops in Hounslow High street with my mum and dad. The ABC cafe which had rows of perspex boxes with different cakes and sandwiches in each one. MacFisheries, and a department store which I think was called ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow

St Andrews primary school with Mr Collins the headmaster and a very scary teacher called Mrs Mason. School dinners in the sea cadets hut across the road which looked like a ship inside!. Then Bishop Thomas Grant from 1968, ...Read more

A memory of Streatham

I was born in Luton at the St Marys Grove Road Maternity home in 1959. My parents had moved to Luton in 1949 following my paternal grandmother who had been bombed out of the East End. We lived on Humberstone Road, me and my ...Read more

A memory of Luton

At the time this photograph of the High Street was taken I was 15 years old. Not knowing then, I would be walking down this road some years later with my first girlfriend and now my wife of 51 years. Where the ...Read more

A memory of Teddington by mikeandbren

My Grandparents moved to Worthing in June 1910. They first rented a property called Sunnyside (No 11) in Ladydell Road whilst waiting for the Church Walk houses to be completed. Then they moved into 23 Church Walk ...Read more

A memory of Worthing by Aileen Catterson

My father discovered Kingsbury Pool when working nearby in the fifties. He then regularly took my brother and me to to the pool at weekends. It was a long trip from Pimlico but always worth it.

A memory of Kingsbury

I was born in Pinchbeck and went to the old Pinchbeck school, located in Knight Street (now the library and Parish council/meeting rooms). When this was the school I remember the head teacher, Joe Burton carrying each child, one by ...Read more

A memory of Pinchbeck by mrbattley62