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Rose (my mother) used to work in Wellford's coner shop. I was born in the 'Potter Street' Perry springs in the 1960s, wow how Harlow has changed from my day. I remember Wellford's coner shop also Wright's Dairy... and it ...Read more

A memory of Potter Street by Graham Nash

This isnt really a memory as such but I'm after some help if anyone can. My uncle died before I was born and he was buried in Worfield. I know from my aunty that he isn't buried in the main graveyard but further up the hill, in a ...Read more

A memory of Worfield in 1960 by Benjamin Barlow

I used to be taken by my mother to the White House for a picnic tea with my sister. Although we had a huge garden ourselves, we loved going there. Sadly a young woman was murdered there in the 1950s ( I think) by ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1950 by Marianne Stevens

Do you remember the bridge at the beginning of Hithermoor Road (near the rec). It was really high and every car BUMPED over. One day a lorry lost control and ended up in Nellie England's garden (Southern Cottages) !!

A memory of Stanwell Moor by Jill Sumner

Being of a young age by this time, twelve years old, I remember the market square being filled with motorbikes, with each the bike riders wearing leather jackets topped with a cut-off denim with this being decorated with many a metal ...Read more

A memory of Wantage in 1972 by Mark Clarke

I am currently researching and writing a history of Netherthong and I have well over 200 photos and other ephemera. I have started numerous chapters relating to such subjects as schools, parish council, churches, sport, ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong in 2010 by Michael Meitiner

in the late 1960s we moved to 32 Yarnton Road. My dad and grandad worked the land of Grove Farm before the housing development took place. During 1970s an archaeological excavation took place in the area surrounding Moat Cottage. I ...Read more

A memory of Kidlington by Jane Eldridge

Like Gloria Friend, I spent a happy childhood in Hornchurch, attending Suttons Primary School where my mother (Mrs Wilton) was deputy head and Mr Occomore our headmaster. We were carefully drilled in our tables, phonics and ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1948 by Elizabeth Housego

I was born there in 1928, in Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, and lived in Bournemouth till 1962. There is no where like Bournemouth, lovely beaches, stores, theatres, the Chines, and Shell Bay. An excursion to ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1940 by Jean St. Dennis

I have just found this page and what memories it rekindles. I was a minor at the ABC, I even got a road safety prize from Coco the Clown. Thorpes record shop accross the road, there I bought my ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1955 by Peter Goddard