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I have very happy memories growing up in Battersea. My very special memories are of me and my friends Jackie Heath and Geoffrey Marshall going to Battersea Park and going into what was called the Jungle back then. We ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1973 by April Gagg

I was born at Alconbury but my grandmother, Mary Anne Draper rented a cottage on the Haggar Farm. I went to school at the tiny little school house and when I was 11 went to school at Sawtry. I have some ...Read more

A memory of Upton in 1953 by Priscilla Davis

I often think about my school friends at Conicavel and wonder where they all are today. I dream all the time of how I wish we could have kept in touch and maybe at some point have had a reunion. I, along with my Brother ...Read more

A memory of Conicavel in 1953 by Maureen Feaks

So many happy memories of Maesteg - where do I start? I was born in 1947 and lived at No 3, Plasnewydd Street until I was about 19. My best friend when I was young was Paul Spracklen (with whom I re-kindled ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg by Nick Davies

I worked as a delivery boy, riding a bike with a holder on front for the boxes of vegetables, or large sacks of potatoes etc. I was 14/15 and still at school. I worked after school 4 to 5.30 and all day Saturday. The boss ...Read more

A memory of Acton in 1968 by Peter Christopher O'toole

I lived in Spring Road opposite Bengry's shop. I remember going to their bakery for my mother - hot bread to collect. I went to Meir Road School, Spooners was a local shop nearby. Brings back memories - doing paper boy job - ...Read more

A memory of Normacot in 1958 by Ronald Burton

I used to live at 22 Clifton Road. Tin baths, outside loos, newspaper on a nail in toilet, all of that. I went to Clifton Road School so I only had to skip a few yards to get there. I remember a teacher called Mrs De Orfe and ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1952 by Sheila Haynes (Was Hayes)

I was born in Rothwell and am a true Rodillian. My birth certificate shows the registration district as Lower Agbrigg, and I was christened at Woodlesford church. I can trace my father's family tree in Oulton back to ...Read more

A memory of Rothwell in 1959

I was born (1940) and raised in Mildenhall, in one of the old flint cottages in Kingsway, (now the Mildenhall Museum) almost opposite the fish and chip shop (Snushalls?) and after a couple of moves left Mildenhall in 1955 ...Read more

A memory of Mildenhall in 2012 by Michael Base

I lived in Farningham, but being a teenager, came to Dartford for entertainment. I also went to Dartford Grammar School until 1959 and my best friends were Veronica Gill and Jennifer Yates - Jennifer's parents owned a little ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1959 by Norma Hauser