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My parents and I lived in one of the flats in Pershore Hall for about two or three years, when I was a toddler in the early 1960s. Probably between 1963 and 1965 (I was born in 1962). Naturally my memories are ...Read more

A memory of Pershore Hall by michaelaaylott

As I have a terminal illness my children had asked me to write some short stories of my life. Some of the most enjoyable and memorable ones were when living in Tulse Hill. I looked on the internet for ...Read more

A memory of Tulse Hill by contact

I was born in 1951 and enjoyed a very happy childhood in Thornton Heath. Our house backed onto the Graveney River and the Rec. Blissful for children. Many happy hours spent in the children's playground with the playground lady a ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Pauline Macdonald

My parents were from Shoreditch and Clapton and moved to Leyton. Because of the war my mother was sent to Willersley Castle in Derbyshire to give birth to me. We were living in King Edward Rd when we were bombed out and spent the ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe by Bob Blazey

Our September holidays were spent at "Shoreside", the grand old house in the centre of the photo. Back then it was owned by Colonel and Mrs Farquhar and Colonel Summers, my nan worked for the Farquhars in Wiltshire ...Read more

A memory of Seaview by Mary Maillou

It may look drab on this photo but: I grew up here in the 1960's and this photo brings back many fond memories. The bus stop is where I used to wait for the Brown's Blue to Ashby Grammar just outside of Reenes ? clothes ...Read more

A memory of Ibstock by michaelgeorge2601974

I am Pam Craddock nee Waller. I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Low Valley. My father Ernest worked at Darfield Main Colliery until the 1980s when he took early retirement and he and my mother Edna came to live here ...Read more

A memory of Low Valley in 1962 by Pamela Craddock

My very first job was working in Lewisham for Fred Morris. He was a huge fellow that used to drink in the pub my mum and step father drank in just on the Lee high Road. He was a wonderful man who knew that mum was ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1983 by Belinda Clare

Manchester the war.... then to Blackpool. And into Red Rose Cottage in 1950, Grandmare how she held us all together, what a lady Nellie Booth was her name... We started off with eight of us living in the cottage, and ...Read more

A memory of Staining in 1950

I went to Our Ladies High School on Dartford Heath. I remember Sister Clare. I remember playing on Dartford Heath as our playground. I have gone back to look for the building in person, also on Google. I have not been ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by penysal