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I remember walking from Fir Tree Gardens on Shrublands Estate to Millers Pond with our jam jars and fishing nets , we also had a youth Club on the Estate I worked Saturdays in the Hairdressers in the parade of shops it was called Jan ...Read more

A memory of Shirley

I went back to visit in June and felt how very sad Seascale looked. Only a couple of miles fro. The most beautiful countryside. Fished on theEsk on Hugh Falkus pools. Too early for the SeaTrout and Hold at Eskadale. How terrific. But then I ...Read more

A memory of Seascale by Tim Hollier

I was sent to the school for stealing sweet coupons and was in Red house number 22 a number which seems to have followed me throughout my life ,I am now 83 years old but can still remember lots about the school J R Alexander was ...Read more

A memory of Mobberley by charlesreagan80

Southend-on-Sea in the 50’s At the housing estate in Mitcham where we lived they had a tenants association. Every Friday night, two of the committee would go round to the Elm Court flats in Mitcham, where we ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by Carole Baldwin

I have lived in Australia for the past 33 years, only returning to the UK a couple of times. And because the family have moved I have never had the opportunity to return to my original stomping ground, until last ...Read more

A memory of Great Sankey by Ian Fackrell

Although I was not born in Gilsland I have many happy memories of childhood holidays. I was born in Millfield part of Newburn. From the age of 7 years, this was 1949, during the summer holidays my gran would put me on the bus at ...Read more

A memory of Gilsland by georgereay

I used to play bass&sing with Sammy lee band in Bellshill welfare in 1955 then nat service in57 I joined the squads playing Coatbridge town hall every wed &Airdrie on Mondays .I started the drumbeats . ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge by gordon.rodger

Just off the High Street, between the bank and Boots - my earliest memory is moving from No 5 Woods Cottages to No 1 Woods Cottages about 1949 - aged 2! Being taken in an ambulance aged 3 due to scarlet fever and in ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup by stone241

I moved to Welling at the age of 8 in 1955. We lived in Roseacre Road, near the Guy Earl of Warwick, where the 89 buses terminated. The house was a 30's semi, but it seemed quite grand after the prefab we used to live in. The ...Read more

A memory of Welling by john.varnham

I can remember walking through Enfield Town as a young boy The Town then had shops like Ketts The electrical shop that sold Radios, Portable Reel to Reel taperecorders, Radiograms, and Record players , then left of that was ...Read more

A memory of Enfield by lyric_21