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My name is Clair salmon I was born at my home in althorne the house called charmouth on burnham road, I arrived late in July 1974. I was the youngest of two children, my sister phillippa was three years older than me she had ...Read more

A memory of Althorne by jamesjc23

Hello my name is Teresa Ling and my sister's name Maria we used to go to St Patrick's Hayling Island Hants I remember the school from age 5 and a half. I was there until it closed down in 1972. I must say I did like the ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by teresaling51

I moved to the high rise flats in 1972 and was glad to get one. The flats was new and had a lady to clean the stairs and front entrance every day. That would be hard to find today a cleaner to do that. the flats was 22 stories high. I ...Read more

A memory of Brentford End

I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by shea.carol

I moved to Cranham, Lexington Gardens, a new estate when I was about three in 1961. I recall being in the cab of the lorry as we moved from my Grandparents house in Eyhurst Avenue, Elm Park. I went to school for the first term at ...Read more

A memory of Upminster by Paul Bradford

My parents, who came to England from India in 1955, when I was 3 months old, moved to Southall in 1959, from Whitton, when I was 4. I remember Southall Broadway at that time-there was actually a saddlery business there! C. ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Sandya Narayanswami

I was born in Park Royal Hospital in Dec 1948. I remember Woolworths in Wembley town had an exit on a corner of the high street and there were trolley buses all round. We used to shop for toys and games in George Arthur's which seemed huge ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1956 by Janet Cockman Nee King

Old forgotten characters of Penge and Eden Park: The Duke of Penge Nell Horley the midwife Winny of the Eden Park Trading Agency The Lad who gave a prize-winning fighter a taste of ...Read more

A memory of Penge in 1920 by Geoffrey Younger

Lumb Mill in the 1950s I remember my late mother and father working at this mill in the 1950s. My father worked as a boiler man. As a child I visited the mill during the school holidays also at weekends. I used to join my father ...Read more

A memory of Edenfield in 1954 by Kenneth Drummond

This story written by Bee Snow 1928-2007 (nee Barbara Whitaker) about her childhood in Evershot, Dorset. Reared with three sisters, four brothers, four terriers and a jackdaw, I insisted by the age of five in ...Read more

A memory of Evershot in 1930 by Peter Whitaker