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Having just purchased the Frances Frith Book "North London Photographic Memories" I was amazed too see on pages 30/31 a photo of Station Road Harrow on the Hill taken in 1914 the picture shows a "Home & Colonial" ...Read more

A memory of Perivale in 1956 by Colin Lane

I moved to Foyle Drive when there was only a few houses built. I lived across the road from the church and went to Ockendon Courts School from the first day it opened. I used to walk up to a Mr & Mrs ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1950 by Victor Hockley

My great-great grandfather and grandmother emigrated to the U.S. from Belmont in the late 1840's or early 1850. Their names are Thomas Spencer and Nancy McJunkin. ...Read more

A memory of Belmont in 1860 by Robert Spencer Howell

As I attended school at St. Egberts College on Ridgeway in North Chingford, we did on occasion get to go swimming at Larkswood Pool. Swimming in any pool was a treat for most of us as the only 'swimming' we usually did was at the ...Read more

A memory of South Harefield in 1945 by Denman Lalonde

I lived in Chandler's Ford but went to school in Eastleigh. First to Cranbury Road and later North End Secondary. Remember the Library well, a small children's section, couldn't wait until I was old enough to use the ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh by joannablacklock

My father was farm manager at Orange Court Farm from 1964-1967. We lived in one of the cedar wood bungalows put up in Littleton, I suspect in the early 1960s, by the More-Molyneux family for estate workers - they also owned the ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1964 by Andrew Webb

It’s a rather sad fact that you only come to appreciate a town several years after you have left it. At the age of 19 I was sent to live and work in Stafford between 1964 and 1979, before ...Read more

A memory of Stafford by nimrod01

i was sent to boyles court in 1961 for smashing a shop window and stealing a train set,i remember being held down by several older kids]i was 11 at the time],i was beaten up ,i remember the dorms and all of us had to march ...Read more

A memory of Boyles Court by Robert Adams

My maternal grandfather, William George Higgs, known as Bill to his family and friends was born in Abernant Road in Markham to George and Edith Higgs on the 11th of July 1925. His parents separated and at some point he moved to ...Read more

A memory of Markham by Andrew Dexter

I lived in Mayplace Road East - firstly at no. 332 (from the age of 4) and then (after returning from living in Essex for a couple of years), at no. 310. Both these houses were more or less opposite to the Manor House ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst