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We moved to Isleworth/Osterley in 1961. We bought a maisonette just off Northumberland Avenue, Rothbury Gardens. My first son was 2 weeks old. We lived there for 19 years, by then we have 3 sons and then we moved just across ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1988 by Pamela Harman (Keene)

I used to live in Court Farm Road. My friends' parents used to own the caravan park, my friends' names were Pat, Alan and another sister, their cousin Susan lived next door to me. I remember the neighbours going out with the ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1963 by Nita Kendell

So many happy memories of my childhood in Crewe up to the time I left aged 13 in 1959. Primary school years spent at Edleston Road, two teachers I remember are Mr Francis and Mr Capewell, I think Mr Capewell liked me because he ...Read more

A memory of Crewe by David Griffiths

As I recall my mother was not a member of the local St. Nicholas Church Women's Union. She was a member of the Young Wives group. We lived in Mile Oak, I was born there in 1944. On occasion she would attend meetings ...Read more

A memory of Portslade-By-Sea in 1940 by Bonny Cother

In a corner of Kent known with justification as the Garden of England stood the magnificent building known as Lee Priory. It saddens me so much that it no longer exists. In my childhood a Colonel Belcher resided there with ...Read more

A memory of Littlebourne in 1940 by Gordon Tumber

My grandparents moved to 49 Highcliffe Road in 1947. They were one of the first families to move into the new council houses. There they raised their six children, three of whom went to Beauchamps School. My mother and her ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1947 by Tracy Hanna

I was born at Auckland Park 1949 and moved to Durham in 1952 when my dad joined the prison service as an officer. Both of my nanas lived in Auckland Park, Henrietta Luke lived 1 Gurnney Valley, and Matilda Young lived 68 ...Read more

A memory of Auckland Park in 1956 by Jennifer Twigg

I have just been looking at some comments, I was brought up in Trafford Park from 1952 when I was born and until 1966 when my parents andIi moved to Australia. I went to Trafford Park Primary School and at that time the ...Read more

A memory of Hulme in 1952 by David Watson

Parish Church Heston where I was married in 1962. My son David was baptized there. I loved Heston. I remember where they had places to tie your horse and also a horse trough. My dad William ...Read more

A memory of Heston in 1945 by Jennifer Bibb

My great-great-great-grandfather lived there and he owned The Railway which is next door, he changed the name from The Navigation to The Railway, his name was James Worth.

A memory of Congleton by Gloria Grocott