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This was our local post office; these shops were a meeting place years ago and everybody new each other then. The shops at Upton Lea then, were very clean outside. On the corner we caught the old buses, jump on & off to Slough.

A memory of Slough in 1960

Alot of these shops are gone, but the town really hasn't changed much as I still see it as it was.

A memory of Slough by Carolyn Babin

I remember dressing up in my cow-girl outfit, Saturday matinee on Factory Lane at the pictures, the manager worked so hard to organise everything. I have a photo showing us all, happy memories. My mother used to to go the ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey in 1952

I remember when the old Roadmaster double-deckers used this bridge daily on their run to and from Slough. Now the bridge is closed to road traffic and the vehicles have to detour around the Brocas to access Windsor.

A memory of Windsor in 1900 by Carolyn Babin

My auntie and uncle, Ted and Kitty, lived in New Kyo in the sixties. Uncle Ted was the caretaker for (I think it was) the Miners Institute and they lived in a house next door. There was also some connection with a sewing factory. They had a ...Read more

A memory of New Kyo in 1967 by Hilary Clough

Remember Mr Lockwood very well used to smoke a pipe and grow his own tobacco and lecture us on the evils of smoking. Big excitement when the older girls who slept in the annex were caught smoking and were moved back into the main building ...Read more

A memory of Bacton in 1960 by Malcolm Foster

The building still looks there same, there was a red postbox on the lower right hand corner of the picture turning into Blundel Lane. I lived on the Stoke Road. Just past the pub was a shop called FourWays -where ...Read more

A memory of Stoke D'Abernon in 1965 by Marina Munro

I was born in 10 Penywerlod road and attended Markham schools until 1952 when i passed to go to Pontllanfraith technical School. I recall most of the people in the neighbourhood and my friends were Tony Morris,Johnnie ...Read more

A memory of Markham by vincegardiner1

My name is Peter Harrison and I lived in Farnham Common and then Farnham Royal in the 60's and 70's. My father had an Insurance Brokers in Mackenzie Street and then in the Farnham Road opposite the Crown Pub. When I ...Read more

A memory of Slough by dcpharrison

I was born in Slough in 1961, living there until 1972, after my father, Jim Butler, died in 1970. We then moved to Scarborough in North Yorkshire. My memories of Slough are of living on Norway Drive, Wexham Court estate. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Ken Butler