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My name is Bob Thompson I grew up in colindale I went to colindale school then I went up to Brent moden west Henson I started work at tilly lamps and then brothers on edgeware road I left London about 50 years ago have been ...Read more

A memory of Colindale by robert01.thompson

Hello, the year 1944/45, my mother had put up with the V1 ‘s being dropped near us, we lived on the out skirts of London. A V2 was dropped one day, killing 22 people at the bottom of the road where we lived. So with ...Read more

A memory of Lambley by chrisrob1942

Each year, the excitement mounted as summer drew near. Dad would drag out the large wicker hamper and Mum would start to fill it with clothes, wellies and tins of food from Galbraiths or the Co-op. By school's end, the ...Read more

A memory of Dunoon

Hello all, I lived at 38 York road just of the Great west road, I loved growing up in Brentford and would love to move back, but I am having problems in finding old friends. I am trying to find someone who I miss a lot so ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by young-r4

I remember this picture very well. Between the ages of 6 and 11, I walked past this school everyday, turning left up a footpath just beyond the two parked cars, on my way to Navigation Road School. On the right hand side ...Read more

A memory of Timperley by mchlpilling

Church attendance was compulsory for us an hour of fidgeting in between mam & dad oor riibs were black and blue with the putts we got for shifting aboot or cracking oor pandrop. John Thompson was the beadle he rang the first ...Read more

A memory of Hopeman by igmain

Mr Hill was the govenor when I first went to Measham, I would say around 1959, a gang of us used to go every Tuesday from west norfolk in one or two cars, this continued for many years.Originally it was two or three ex-army huts side by ...Read more

A memory of Measham by burnelpenhaul

My mum ran the raga muffin second hand shop in the satisfied from 1971 It was relocated when the new saimsbury a was opened in the mid eighties. I remember elliot butcher shop in West Street and the fish shop in swan street. Wales the ...Read more

A memory of Warwick by eaugerr

My Name is Eric Harrington I lived in Park Lane West. Netherton.Having failed the Eleven Plus In 1950 I found myself as a pupil of "litherland " Secondary Modern [Or The Senni as it was affectionally called} My first Teacher was Mr ...Read more

A memory of Litherland by harrington748

We moved to Swindon in 1957 from London (Wimbledon, actually) when my dad, a skilled engineer, got a job at Vickers Armstrongs at South Marston, with a brand new council house thrown in. In those post-war austerity days there was ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by besafisher