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We lived at the corner of Cleveland St and Vittoria. My dad was a docker. Life wasn’t easy, but we had lots of mates and family in the area. My friends were the Hickmans from Vine St. Audrey Wilson Vittoria St. Pam & Lorraine ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by p_mmartchenko

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

Among the lovely pictures of 1950s Oakwood is a picture of a lake in Oakwood Park for model boats which I used in the late forties and early 50s. Sailing boats there was a favourite pastime of my friend and neighbour (at the time) Alan ...Read more

A memory of Oakwood by Roger Crunden

I have very fond memories of the Wannock Gardens Tea Rooms in the 1950s (and maybe into the 1960s). My dad was a Brighton coach driver who took trips of old ladies out for afternoon excursions and tea there. My sister ...Read more

A memory of Wannock in 1959 by Mary Funnell

I lived in Wallasey and Overton Hill was a popular spot for the annual Sunday School treat (St Hilary's). We travelled on one of those magnificent yellow double decker buses of Wallasey Corporation. The helter skelter was ...Read more

A memory of Frodsham in 1959 by Edward Godfrey

My husband was Tony Nelson.One of the 9 Nelson children born in Vernon Place Birkenhead.He was born in 1939 and lived his entire life in Birkenhead.He spent his youth going out in New Brighton and Liverpool.He was well known in ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by Anthony Nelson

does anybody remember Birkenhead north end in the 50s&60S. I lived in Alwen street from 1945 till1970.I enjoyed my childhood there,playing allsorts of games kick than can the allyo football cricket anything you could play ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by billycav

My husband and I came to Sussex in April 2005 tracing my Caryll/Caryl ancestry. We took a bus from Brighton to Warnham, when we arrived in Warnham, I asked the driver where St. Margaret's Church was. He motioned up around ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School by Pat Jorgensen

The River Mole forms the county boundary here, south-west of the church, so the right bank in the view is in Sussex. This is Long Bridge, seen from Church Meadow, now a more manicured space. The bridge carried the London to Brighton road for many years; it was rebuilt in the 1970s.

A memory of Horley

My Great-Great-Grandad, Henry Howard, lived in the early 1800’s - a time of great rural depression - and so he left his Devon home to look for work in London with the result that several generations ...Read more

A memory of Hammersmith in 1860 by John Howard Norfolk