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I was born in 1939. I knew a girl who lived on Harborne Park Road next to the gully. My brother and I used to catch the bus on Harborne Park Road to go to Bournville School. My mother used to buy rabbits ...Read more

A memory of Harborne by Cynthia Portas

My Grandparents ran the Alexandra Park Tavern before and during the second world war, they were Kath and Albert Allan. I was born in Nov. 1941 in Winchmore Hill and was taken back to live in the pub. There ...Read more

A memory of Wood Green in 1941 by Angela Scott

I have very fond memories of summer holidays in my aunties cottage that is my grandmas sisterinlaws on adelaide road. Going to the open air swimming pool playing on the park the pub across the road from her house that ...Read more

A memory of Andover Down in 1959 by Sandra Barlow

I remember going to Alma Road school back in the early fifties when they still gave you a good hiding with a cane if you got into trouble. We changed schools to the new Secondary School in Bexley Lane when it first ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup by Gerry Horn

I was born in Denholme but moved to Wilsden when I was two. I can remember arriving in the back of a furniture truck. It was a lovely life for a child, even after the war started. Most of the dads were away fighting but the ...Read more

A memory of Wilsden in 1930 by Shirley Jones

I lived in South Vale until 1963. It was a real community with nice neighbours. I went to Rockmount school and spent hours playing in the park opposite it. The Crystal Palace grounds were fenced off but us kids used to climb over ...Read more

A memory of Upper Norwood by Patricia Franklin

Living in Lewisham in what was Engate Street in the late 1950's Peter Pans Pool was to us like a holiday Park and I spent a lot of time there as a child even when we moved to Sydenham in 1960's. ...Read more

A memory of Catford by Rosemary Riddle

I was born in 1946 and lived in a house in South Road, not far from Jimmy Parkes the butcher. This was, of course, well before the advent of supermarkets. My mother and I used to walk from South Road, along Clifton ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge in 1949

On the subject of railway bogies (handcarts), for two years each Sunday morning in the late Fifties I used to propel one, laden to the gunnels with newspapers, from Monkseaton station, through Souter Park, down Hawthorn Gardens to the ...Read more

A memory of Whitley Bay in 1958 by Colin Henderson

So many shared memories of growing up in Wallington. I went to Holy Trinity from 1945 -1950 I was Marion Kopperman then. I well remember Mrs Harding, Miss Coates and the awful Miss Heathfield, I was terried of her! Like ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1949 by Marion Wood