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I Moved to Wembley in 1948 at age of 2 and lived there for 22 years. We lived in Ealing Road opposite Lyon Park Ave. My friends and I used to go up Lyon Park Ave to the Iron Bridge which crossed over the railway lines and do ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1960 by Alan Riddell

I was born in Norwood Green in 1939. I also went to Clifton Road school. We were bombed regularly as the anti aircraft guns were in Osterly Park behind our house which was also opposite St Marys Church. Two Italian prisoners of ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1940 by Rosemary Kind

I was taken to live in Goldsmith Mansions as a baby of two months in 1946. I lived there with my parents until approximately 1949. I have a memory of walking up the staircase to our flat. I have a much more vivid memory of the ...Read more

A memory of Peckham in 1946 by Sheila Watson

I spent many days playing in this park, jumping the River Shuttle and meeting the people from Lamorbey. Later I played football for Sidcup in the adjoining park, Marlborough

A memory of Sidcup by Alwyn Pickard

I was born in Slough in 1961, living there until 1972, after my father, Jim Butler, died in 1970. We then moved to Scarborough in North Yorkshire. My memories of Slough are of living on Norway Drive, Wexham Court estate. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Ken Butler

Reading some memories, I thought I would do, as spent a lot of my teenage years in the Elm Park area. I was one of the first pupils at the newly opened Abbs Cross Technical school in Abbs Cross Lane after passing my 11+ . Sadly I was not ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by Derek Court

I was an evacuee from Coventry at the age 6 with my mother and 4 siblings. We had been bombed out of our house and came to live in what i think was a Manse next to the Church in Coleshill Street. (on a memory lane trip years ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield by r.lonsdale2322

My family and I lived at 2 Carlin Gate, a cul de sac on the left of this picture just beyond the parked car. I lived there from my birth in 1948 until the family moved to Romford in Essex in the summer of 1963.

A memory of Timperley by mchlpilling

The sign to the Car Park is the main location clue, - along with the blocky concrete structure alongside the Shelter, the sloping timber launching ramp for boats, and the beginning of the drainage-outfall's concrete ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

Can I post a few memories of Wimbledon's 4 cinemas. I was born at the Nelson in 1943, and lived locally in Woodside until my early twenties. Just after the war the town had four cinemas. The Odeon in Worple Road was the largest and ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by cliffjharrison77