Search Results

Interesting to see Windermere Avenue mentioned. I lived at #57 Windermere from 1941 until I married in 1957. When we moved in and throughout the war, our house was 4th from the end of the avenue - the others were built after the war. Our ...Read more

A memory of Elm Park by eewatts

I was born at 60 Moss Row, Norden Rochdale on the 10th February 1954. Moss Row was a terrace of 41 houses following on from Clapgate Road. They were privately owned by a Mrs Milne. Moss Row was demolished for a never to ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale by geoffmetcalf960

How interesting Beverley. My Grandparents (Thomas & Emily Wood) lived at 135 Townsend Road, from when the houses were built in 1908 until my grandmothers death in 1947! An Uncle Married Hilda Redman who lived at No 36! I can ...Read more

A memory of Southall by April Ashton

born in 62, lived at 166 easthill, went to st faiths primary school from 67 to 73, used to sit on the wall watching the scrap lorry reverse all thw way up the side of our wall and gover cricket school entrance and park up to ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by Peter Mason

I was put into the care of the Church of England Childrens Society in 1947. I was sent to Hatton Hall in 1950. The house Master was an evil violent monster name Mr. Silverwood. He was an ...Read more

A memory of Wellingborough by Anthony Messer

During the war I attended Sherwood Boarding School on Church Street and Downs Road. Behind the house was an abandoned and overgrown chalk quarry (The Pit) with an old cottage, our arts and crafts classrooms. The cottage is gone and it ...Read more

A memory of Epsom by Paul Erland

William Paige and his 12 chidren were the first occupiers of the new Treboul House and farm in 1861, his son Richard Edwin Paige JP took over the house and farm, with adjoining farms Criffle and Berry, in about 1875 and was there ...Read more

A memory of Treboul by wnigelpaige

My grandfather was the village blacksmith in Wetheral who had his forge behind the District Nurse's House opposite the Wheatsheaf pub. His name was Tommy Marshall. By the time I knew him in the 1950s he was more of an ...Read more

A memory of Wetheral by mike.tibbetts

I don't have many good memories of Southall. My family lived in Norwood Green when I was born in 1947 and we moved to 31 North Avenue when I was five. We had a street party for the Coronation and my father told me that it was my ...Read more

A memory of Southall by ginacoles

I was born in Stanmore Rd n15 in 1953, but moved to Edmonton Green early 1954, so I was told. We lived above Gearys Bakery next to the Golden Lion, my dad worked in the bake house the other side of road.I knew all the stall holders and ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by roger.nev1953