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My family lived in Greenford, Middlesex but for a year or so during WW2 my mother took my sister and me to live in Huncoat with my mother's sister Mary. Both my mother, Ellen Lees, and my aunt Mary King worked in the Blackburn ...Read more

A memory of Huncoat by vincentlees

I was born on Gibb lane near Mount Tabor, there was a water pump outside the houses where my mother used to have to go outside for water at one time My uncle Norman Jones was the curator at Bankfield Museum for a year or two. He had 2 sons ,Stuart and Raymond and a daughter Barbara.

A memory of Halifax by William Marshall

My Grandparents, Charlie and Frances Hawkins used to live at 1 Whites Hill in Tilmanstone, in the 60s and 70s. Back then it was a little white wooden house,a two up two down, with up and down wooden floors with ...Read more

A memory of Tilmanstone by wendyhawkins1961

I've got no personal memories of Battersea, except for visits to the fair, but my ancestors lived there throughout the last half of the 19th century until at least 1933. They all lived at various houses on Belfour ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by patk

Birkenhead in the 1950s – it bears no resemblance to how it is today – it doesn't even look the same. Most of the places I remember are gone. The streets where I grew up have gone – the geography of the place has changed ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by mcgraa

I was born in Palace Road in 1959. I lived with my sisters Fay Barbara and parents John and Audrey Langford. My aunt Joan and Uncle Tom Martin owned the house and we rented the top floor flat. Because we ...Read more

A memory of Crystal Palace by steveandjanbox

The first two cottages on the left have been demolished. The grey and the white building. The shop at the end is what I own. It used to be a grocers shop, watch makers and a bakery. It was mentioned in the 1861 census but I cannot trace the shops back further.

A memory of Wrentham by steve

I was born in Mytchett and went to the junior school on the Mytchett road towards ash vale, between 1955 and 1961, then R.H secondary until 1966. I lived in Loman rd, and remember when the overflow estate was built for families from ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett by John D

My older brother Geoffrey and me grew up in our grandparents house (which was unnumbered then but 3 The Green now) which backs on to The Green. Geoff was born in 1938 and me, David, in 1940. Our close companions ...Read more

A memory of Bearsted

I was born in Queen Mary's Hospital in 1936. My parents lived in Glenavon Road. My sister was 3 years older than me and attended primary school in Water Lane in 1938/9/40. I can remember going shopping in Boardman's with my ...Read more

A memory of West Ham