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Does anyone remember Bamatres Cycle Shop? It was on the right, literally just before you went over the bridge to Harrow and Wealdstone station? My brother worked there in the early fifties prior to being conscripted into ...Read more

A memory of Wealdstone by Richard Osler

In the late 1950’s and as a young boy around 8 or 9 living in the west end of Newcastle, I used to visit my Auntie Bella and Uncle Ted regularly. They lived at Number 3 Picktree Cottages, a short row of picturesque ...Read more

A memory of Picktree by Ben Haddon

I went to Tring Park (Arts Ed back then) from 1985 to 1991 - many memories of the beautiful mansion

A memory of Tring

Hi David Rowe ,only just found this site ,so apologies. Re W&C French, you may have remembered my father and my grandfather working at Frenchies. My dad Ron Dent ,drove cranes and brought the first 20 ton mobile Coles crane to ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by peter.dent3

I lived in Mill Road during the war years until I was about 18 years old. We used to walk to Purfleet Primary School every day which was quite a stretch. I seem to remember that the infant teacher was a Miss Pond who I believe ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet by michael

I was 4 when this was taken and lived in Limes Road (the turning off to the right in this photo! Whenever I go back, everything seems so small!!

A memory of Weybridge by jbroper

I was born in 1947 in Hurlingham Road on the corner of Dolby Road. As kids we used to play in Dolby Road as there was only one car owner so not much traffic. Sometimes the car wouldn't start with the 'car handle' so we all ...Read more

A memory of Fulham by joycefayhawkins

I have lived in Welling most of my life. I lived in Selwyn Crescent with my parents until 1975. I then moved to a flat in Welling, in fact the one in the picture above Stylo Shoe shop. I moved to Crayford where we bought a house. ...Read more

A memory of Welling by mrsmarilynmackay

I did my apprenticeship in Kay’s ,I was 15 years 3 months when I started in 1965, so there is a very good chance I was working there when the South Street photo was taken. My boss was Mr Roy Collins who became Mayor of ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester by Ailsa Bowring

Seasalter - A place name from the past for 2 reasons. No.1 - in the 1960s my paternal grandmother and grandfather had retired from Tooting, Sarf London to Bapchild, Sittingbourne and had acquired a beach hut close by the ...Read more

A memory of Seasalter by mothpoet