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I am hoping that someone will remember the night during WW2 when a landmine fell in Lady Margaret Rd. I was about 8/9 at the time 1944/45? I would love to correspond with someone from Southall who remembered this incident which stands out so well in my memory banks. Anyone at all?

A memory of Southall

My brother Len Tewkesbury also stoked the boilers at the Ambo in the 50's whilst still at school, either William Penn or later Slough Tech in Slough - we were living in Warwick Ave at the time and he used to let people sneak in via the back door.

A memory of Slough by tewkesburyj

I lived in Three Elm Lane, Golden Green, Kent and moved there in the 1950's and my parents left in the 1970's. As a child I went to Hadlow Primary School, Hadlow and then onto Hugh Christie, Tonbridge and yes I was also in the first ...Read more

A memory of Golden Green

I was born in Benfield Street in 1946. We lived in a house which was condemned due to either bomb damage or shock, as there were large splits in the basement walls. My first memories of the street were playing ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

I didn't live in the town itself; we moved to Gwencole Crescent from Burgh Le Marsh, Lincs, in 1963 after my father followed up a work opportunity, advertised in the local press by English Electric at Whetstone. He was ...Read more

A memory of Braunstone Town by Colin

Hi does anyone remember the late 1950' at Rosary Priory? My name was then Jennfer Barnett. I can remember going on a trip with the school to Rome. I do still have photos of that. I used to live in ...Read more

A memory of Bushey Heath by westjenny65

Hi does anyone remember the late 1950' at Rosary Priory? My name was then Jennfer Barnett. I can remember going on a trip with the school to Rome. I do still have photos of that. I used to live in ...Read more

A memory of Bushey Heath by westjenny65

I would often go to Kidderminster with my father, he would go there to do ' The Banking' he was about 30 years old, ran the new Mitre Oak Hotel at Crossway Green and played cricket for Hartlebury 1936. In later years, I was ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster

I recently acquired an old map entitled Stone's Map Ten Miles Round Banbury - it looks like it is over 100 years old. Not sure if it is the original 1855 map. It is on some kind of canvas material. Someone has ...Read more

A memory of Banbury by tmcsorley

I recall The Dump, climbing across Dursford Road bridge on that sewage pipe as a dare on the way to Wimbledon Park primary school ignoring the danger getting smashed to pieces by rush hour trains. My brother, Bern, and me, Mick, ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by mike.snow16