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I love Mitcham...born St Helier 3rd Jan 1970, lived in Streatham Road moved to Graham Ave, Mitcham till 1977 ... then moved into the Red Flats, Fountain House when they were first built. There was Mitcham swimming baths ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Donna Hallett

I was somwhere around 1 when we moved to Luddenden Foot, we lived in a place called Albion Terrace above the railway lines. I attended Blackwood Hall School at the age of four because for me I ...Read more

A memory of Luddenden Foot in 1959 by Christina Marsh

In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more

A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by John S. Batts

Such a very small house, this semi of theirs, So very squashed-up in between Two others the same, but it gave itself airs With the front door in Dark Cabbage Green. Why on earth I was there, in this very small house, Quite ...Read more

A memory of Watford by Paul Wigmore

Not so sure of the date, I was born in the cottage hospital in 1936 and spent all my holidays with my grandparents the Brockbanks who had a pub in North Lane called the Heroes of Lucknow. I had many trips to the Lido with my brother, ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1947 by Anne Vines

These are the memories of my childhood week-ends and holidays, spent with my Uncle Harold and Aunt Lucy Mogridge at Fontmell Parva. My maternal grandmother Annie Farwell lived at Fontmell Parva for 50 years, in the ...Read more

A memory of Fontmell Parva in 1950 by Helen Brockway

I was born in Durham 1943, I lived with my grandparents at 51 Old Elvet opposite the what was then the Shire Hall. My grandparents ran a boarding house where lots of business people would stay some from America and Canada ...Read more

A memory of Durham by Andrew Eves

We moved to Selsdon in 1952 from Blackheath and I started primary school which was on the ground floor of the building in the picture. We lived at 4 Foxearth Road up until 1972 when my mother, who was widowed in 1962, moved ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon in 1952 by Jacqueline Cook

I was born in 1938 in a cottage on theRroseneath Castle estate where my father was a gardner at the castle, £2 a week free house and a ton of coal a year. The boat came in at high tide offloaded 60 ton coal and provisions all removed ...Read more

A memory of Ardpeaton

I was born at 105 John Street Blaydon on 25/8/1943. Moved to the big house above the schools on the left hand side,The Curatage. Above that was Tweddles farm; Thornton Weddle ran the farm and his brother had a butchers shop at ...Read more

A memory of Blaydon in 1943