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Crescent Road Primary School ... more names flooding back today! Pauline McNutt, Judith Ward, David.....woops surname just slipped out of my head again, or should I say back in?! A Brian with fair curly hair. A girl who had impetigo badly? ...Read more

A memory of Erith by Audrey Simpson

Life in Sheaveshill Avenue in the early to middle 1950's still seemed to me to be quite rural and as I recall we still had gas lit street lamps - or at least electric lamps using the old standards. The milk was ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1954 by Ken Hunter

I remember back in the late 50's, as kids, we used to swim at the Woodlands camp swimming pool. We lived at East Hill and used to either walk or cycle to the pool. I remember we then used to play in the club house. We ...Read more

A memory of Knatts Valley in 1958 by Keith Oakes

I remember as a child going to Litchard school, it was a good school, it even had a swimming pool. I had some good friends and I always remember going to the shops for sweets, loads of shops there then. I lived in Litchard Park. ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1972 by Gary Hankins

I was born in No 9 Manor Bungalows (The Prefabs), in 1947, Channel View wasn't built then, the area was laid to allotments & then open meadow to Gelli Crescent & Tynycwm Halt Railway platforms. In 1955 the second Phase of ...Read more

A memory of Pontymister in 1955 by Lyndon Ivin

My first memories were of Krumlin where my mum worked at Krumlin mill as a piece burler & mender. (I remember the boiler house at the mill with the big steam engine that turned all the ...Read more

A memory of Triangle in 1953 by Martin Wood

I lived in Midhurst Hill, off Townley Road, a couple of years after this photo was taken, quite scarey to see how old fashioned it looks now. I used to buy my catapault elastic in Jennings. I went to Upton Road ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Richard Blowers

I spent my childhood in West Norwood. We lived next to the Cemetary Wall in Hubbard Road. We often drive there for "a trip down memory lane". It looks like a little toy town now and so built up. Kingswood School was a ...Read more

A memory of West Norwood in 1968 by Gaynor Dinwoodie

I used to go to Church Farm from 1975 to 1980, I was 14 in 1978, what great memories of those great holdays, always last two weeks in August, the varied activities, the ramble, the darts and pool competition, the women versus ...Read more

A memory of Pagham in 1978 by Barry Trusty

Come out of there and you were at the Magistrates Court in the square I remember a big tree in the back behind black iron fencing and thinking that's where they did the hangings right in front of Barking indoor swimming pool ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1950 by Chrs