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My Dad, Thomas Edmund Miller was born at 7 Bell Street, Ludgershall. Dad died at our home in Willingdon, East Sussex in 1956 aged 50). Until I had some family research done, I always thought he was a Londoner. ...Read more

A memory of Ludgershall in 2001 by Jeff Miller

The Seagoing Years. I must have left the Army sometime in August or September of 1949, and went back to C.J.King & son, tug owners, to carry on with my job as deck boy. This was not to my ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1950 by Arthur Cottrell

I was born and raised in Irthlingborough. I was born in 1948 above the shop to the left of The Bull, opposite the old bakery. Back then Finedon Road was quite narrow at that point. My grandmother owned ...Read more

A memory of Irthlingborough by Carol Ayers

I lived in Tooting and my then boyfriend, Johnny Finch, lived in Zennor Road along with his family, mum Elsie, dad Jack, siblings Jeanne, Elsie, Tony and John. There was an older brother too, who also lived in Zennor Road ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1960 by Jan Clark

This is a very evocative picture. My parents used to take me on two week long summer holidays to the Kent coast in the 1950s to early 1960s - Margate, Westgate, Broastairs, Birchington. They were exciting times. Although ...Read more

A memory of Margate by Peter Leach

My grandmother, two aunts and father owned Brown's paper shop. I am son of Billy and Joan Brown living in leeds now. Fond memories of my childhood living in East Forest Hall Rd collecting paper money on Sunday mornings in an ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall in 1957 by Frank Brown

My early memory of Quidenham is sitting with my grandmother on the village seat near the Post Office, which she and my grandfather ran for many years, my aunt worked on the telephone exchange until a modern exchange replaced it. ...Read more

A memory of Quidenham in 1960 by Christine Hewson

Hi, I've recently removed an old photo of my sister & myself from one of my deceased father's photo albums. I always assumed this was in our back garden as there is only grass in the picture. On the reverse it ...Read more

A memory of Stowlangtoft

I was brought up in Williams Close in Crescent Road in 1962-1983. At top our road there was a old gothic house which I was looked after in as a four year old by a lovley lady called Mrs Murphy. I always ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1974

My mother & father moved to london in 1958 for my dad to start work as a teacher. I was born in 1959 in Bangor (they brought me back home to be born), but from the age of 5(ish) I remember coming back to either Tyn Lon, where my ...Read more

A memory of Groeslon by Gareth Griffiths