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I was born at home in 1940 at Thornbridge Road, We had a large brick built air raid shelter at the side of our house as far as I can remember it was never used, I can remember being under the stairs with my mother a couple of times but as ...Read more

A memory of Garrowhill by Alexander Paterson

My brother attended warham court school as he had asthma. It was in the 1970's.every 3rd Sunday would get the train from Victoria to Horsham, where a coach would collect us and take us to the school. The same people would ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School

Some of my most precious memories of life belong to Menith Wood. My parents bought a caravan where we had many happy times on the “Bird in Hand” public house caravan site, opposite the woods. I remember feeding “Thomas” the boar, ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood by Elizabeth Flint

The Methodist Association of Youth Clubs (MAYC) had a big annual rally in London for many years. There was a tradition to throw pom-poms with your name and address attached to create pen friends. At one such weekend I ...Read more

A memory of Betws Garmon by Katy Collins

In the 50-60's I used to live in Southall in Crosslands Ave, before the World went mad. I played in a Rock band at Norwood Green School, Derley Youth Club, a pub at Hounslow and other places, called Paul and the Avengers ...Read more

A memory of Southall

I was born in 1974 and grew up in Rosemary Avenue. I went to Alexandria Infants school until 1980 when I started Hounslow Heath Infants school and then junior school. My teacher at the infants school was Mrs Crump, I think there was ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow

I hope you can see my entry as the most recent memory is a few years ago. I found this site by accident as I was searching for information regarding Blacksmiths Lane and Whybridge School. I was born in 1957 and also attended ...Read more

A memory of South Hornchurch by Ed Stride

The racecourse was pretty much my home all my life, Kempton Avenue. Sorry, a bit of a personal ramble here mixed with my remeniscing about me to put into context; I was born in Ealing in 53 of Welsh family (5 older ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Nick Parr,

At the age of ten, my father moved me and the rest of the family from Low Fell to Esh Winning, without consulting any of us, including my mother. He had bought a tumble-down holiday cottage, situated between the pit-heap and the ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by David Woodhead

Having recently by chance spoken with someone who knew Fenny Stratford I was prompted to start looking on the internet and came across this site and for what it’s worth decided to record my memories. I was born ...Read more

A memory of Fenny Stratford by Dawn Cousins