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In this photo is pictured a 645 Trolly bus the one I used to catch to Edgware Secondry Modern School at Spur Road I Lived in Manor Park Cresant the bottom of which is just in front of the Trolly bus on the right, I lived in Edgware ...Read more

A memory of Edgware by dv.ambler

Billy Benson here. I now live in Victoria Australia, but I grew up in Aveley and lived at 5 Crescent Walk. Loved the pictures of the local shops and the old town. My family moved to Australia in 1963. I have been back since ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by billbenson1

I lived in Manor Road in the late fifties and then Lymington Close until the end of the sixties, it was a great place to live then. We played on Mitcham common going to the seven island ponds on our bicycles and the old gun site. Mr ...Read more

A memory of Norbury

I attended Hackbridge Kindergarten then Primary and later Elmwood High schools Left school at 14 , worked at Croydon Airport as a apprentice engineer for Mortons . I cant say I have good memories of Hackbridge ...Read more

A memory of Hackbridge by scoti49

This photo is looking towards the 1890 view of the snuff mills and the end of Bridges Lane. The footpath on the right connected to Beddington Lane and was our route to the park as children. The wall on the right was pock marked with ...Read more

A memory of Beddington by Chris Scott

When my father got a job in Bristol after the war we moved to Bristol from Leeds but there was very little housing available. After a year of living with a family ‘in digs’ as it was called then, we were allocated ...Read more

A memory of Shirehampton by Jill Brown

I was a pupil at Cranborne First School at the time of Ms Rogers and lived across the carpark at 9 Water Street. I remember ending up with prizes for cooking and mini garden and doing the show at the old village hall singing '1, 2, ...Read more

A memory of Cranborne in 1974 by Adam Cooper

I well remember been driven to the station to meet a train that was carrying at least two hundred head of cattle destined for Ditchley Mansion. As a young man in those days, with five other men we drove the animals to ...Read more

A memory of Charlbury in 1954 by Roy Beasley

I was born after the war and lived in Sheaveshill Avenue until I was married in 1971. I lived in a house that which had the dubious distinction of being directly opposite to the Titanine paint factory on the other side ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1956 by Ken Hunter

I also recall the days when the old tramp used to go around the bins in the old market hall looking for food, and old Les the deaf mute who used to hang around the taxi rank on Market Hill, he used to go to Warwicks fish ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Michael Bream