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It would be early 60's and we would all meet up at Allesley Hall, on one of those long summer evenings, to have a massive game of Hide and Seek ( Rally, rally 1,2,3!) We would be about 8 or 9 years old and most of us were from St. ...Read more

A memory of Coventry

My memories of growing up in bisley are newer then the ones on here I grew up in the 1970's my grandad lived on bisley common and when the houses were built on Shaftesbury road he brought on of the first ones which my mum was born ...Read more

A memory of Bisley by mike.bear73

Hi everyone , omg u all brought back good memories ..drakes, the fish shop with huge scary crocodile hanging from ceiling, on corner on portmanmoor rd , which is where i lived, no. 13..yes we was poor very poor ,i ...Read more

A memory of Splott by ullkei

The house on the right was when John Lambert lived, he owned and ran the shop on the right (it was a general store; grocer, hardware and building supplies at the rear). My Dad, Jim Williams owned the butchers shop, the ...Read more

A memory of Snettisham

I lived on Littleheath Road (No 32) until 1976 when we moved to Purley when I was 8. Both my brother (Nick Storey) and I went to Selsdon Primary/Jnr Schools. Our house backed on to Selsdon Woods and I remember there was a flag pole in ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by alister.storey

Born in 1947 before the NHS mum was transported to Hitchen to have me (hospitals full in London or too expensive?). I lived in half of a two-up two-down. We had the downstairs. My younger twin sisters and I shared a bed whilst mum ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by brendactucker

My maternal grandfather Ernest Cording was the private secretary to Mr Augustus Brandt, of Bletchingley Castle, before WWII at William Brandt's London offices and was asked to move from Upminster in Essex to live ...Read more

A memory of Bletchingley by cgt

I remember we used to walk from my grandma's house in Nottingham Road opposite the Fire Station down through the park, cut through to Burton Street and about halfway up Burton Hill. I was never quite sure why we went ...Read more

A memory of Melton Mowbray by robban

I LIVED IN Scotland Bridge Road, New Haw, just down the road from West Byfleet. I attended WB primary school and then briefly the secondary school before I went to Woking Grammar. These were very happy days. I worked ...Read more

A memory of West Byfleet by tonyvermot

Not so much a memory as a request! My great-grandfather William Saward was Station Master at Audley End for 38 years, between 1857 and 1895. He lived in the Station House, where my grandfather Bertram was born and became a ...Read more

A memory of Audley End by david_saward