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I was born in 1958. My father was in the RAF. His mother, my grandmother lived at 6 Jubilee Crescent Port Sunlight. Whenever we moved from one RAF camp to another we would stay at my Nanas for a couple of weeks, while ...Read more

A memory of Port Sunlight by kevin.whelan

Although I only lived at Great Totham as a young boy for 7 years , 48 years after moving to the Cotswolds because of my fathers work I still have a fair few memories. We moved to Foster road in 1965 from Chelmsford ...Read more

A memory of Great Totham by Mrs M.Rignall

In 1955 I was doing my penultimate year at school. I started at Selsdon primary circa 1944. The air raid siren was out side the school so when it went off we could not miss it! The doodle bug phase of WWII started in June 44 ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by des.donohoe

Hi all I lived in charmydown for 7 to 8 years .I can remember the first day we arrived. there were Hurricane planes still on the run way. we lived in the officers hut 1 lime grove ..

A memory of Charmy Down by cathterry11

Does anyone remember Morris Bros, Gents' Outfitters - I THINK must have been in Ealing High Street. I worked there for three summers in the early 70s, walking over from my sister's house in Mayfield Avenue. Mr Morris himself (I suppose a ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by tenterer64

I grew up here ...happy memories , loved the lake and fun fair , surrounding countryside , would be either sat on a jetty with my feet in the water watching the boats come and go , or hiding in the dense shrubbery at the top of the hill ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere by ami.gore65

We moved to Littleheath Road circa 1957, I was a pupil until we moved in 1960. I remember: Colin Smith, Mervyn Allinson (spelling?), Janice Russell, and her friend Judith Hardman, Peter Martin, and that is it as far as full ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon

It's pity that there are no images of Cannock's schools on this archive. Cannock actually had a number of schools long before many other towns. Primary education for all didn't come into effect until the Education Act of 1870 made it ...Read more

A memory of Cannock by brucehaycock

I was born in 1947 in boundary park hospital, as it was then. My mum and dad lived in Holt Lane in Failsworth. I can remember the Argyll Mill as a working cotton mill which was just down the lane. My mum was a housewife and my ...Read more

A memory of Oldham by suechalmers

The river used our playground then before the river ingrebourne was blocked off from the tidal Thames to alleviate flooding in Rainham. Further down river were the old ww2 concrete barges that we used to clamber over ...Read more

A memory of Rainham by johnvwillson