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I purchased my first house at 28 Chapel Lane with my late wife. This lane led down to the Salvation Army Farm where an annual event of motor cycle scrambling took place. The lane was quiet apart from ...Read more

A memory of Hadleigh in 1963 by Reg Hooper

The day after our trip to London, I woke in the morning and was told to immediately get dressed and put on my new shoes and overcoat by mother. We dropped Bernard at Aldersbrook School and then caught a bus into Wanstead Tube ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1950 by Gordon Mays Baird

Found the web page and references to Jubilee Grove. I adopted "Kenn Gash" because I was a reporter on the Sleaford Standard and my name was wrongly spelled on a By-line. I liked the balance and it stuck! Memories ...Read more

A memory of Burton Pedwardine in 1954 by Kenn Gash

Being born in Salford along with my sister 1949 1947, I too have fond childhood memories, the kindness of the people, looking out for each other, something northern people do the best. My parents kept the butchers shop in ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Robert Cottell

This was around 1950. Me Ma had a sister who was my Aunt Lilly, she married a Yorkshire man from Leeds who was my Uncle Jack and they had one daughter called Jean who was a year or so older than me and they lived in Gipton, Leeds ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1950 by Jimmy Burrows

I was born at 96 Station Road, Patricroft in 1934, and went to Lewis Street School. My best mates were Walter Mason and Derrick Pullar. I joined the Merchant Navy at 17 and sailed the world. I met a girl on board ship while on a ...Read more

A memory of Patricroft in 1950 by Frank Robinson

My strongest memories of Lewisham is there being three cinemas there. The Gaumont (where I saw the Beatles live in the 1960s) - I went to Saturday morning pictures there. The Rex cinema, just by the bridge ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham by Jackie Walder

Holland is a bustling Essex coastal town `resplendent`-a bride in her wedding day gown, tree lined avenues, with neat little plots, well kept gardens and a place for the tots, a school, four churches, library and hall, a ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1993 by Allen Warrender

I lived in Henshawe Road so I could see the pool from my bedroom window. I cannot remember the exact year, but my friend Maureen and I learnt to swim there - no official lessons so Im not sure how, but we did. From then on ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1964 by Elaine King

I remember the post office, butter, rank! Try complaining to Mrs Talbot, what a force. My brother in law bought some Oxo cubes there, there was a competion on the box, it was ten years too late. Wish they were all there now though.

A memory of Thurnby in 1968 by Christine Wright