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My maternal grandparents lived at Mostyn, Crabtree Lane. Mr & Mrs William (Bill) Jones. He was a builder; in the 1920's he worked in London and used to come down to build Mostyn at weekends, they finally moved in I ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham in 1952 by Sarah Rashbrooke

Does anyone remember Davidson Road Secondary Modern School? This was late 1950's pre co-education days so although housed in the same building, girls were upstairs and boys downstairs. Seperate playgrounds and 'never the twain ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1958 by Francis Beck

I went to Marianne Thornton School in 1961 until 1966 when I was 15. I went to work for the GPO as a Continental telephone operator and did 3 months training in Eagle House on Cannon Street and then to Wood Street exchange in ...Read more

A memory of Clapham in 1961 by Linda Goatley

Most of my friends at Wishaw Academy in the 1950's lived in the prefabs; Gordon "carrots" Mcallister, Johnny Davidson, Billy Ffyfe, Jim Glover, I have forgot all the other names. We all went on to Wishaw Central School, ...Read more

A memory of Wishaw in 1955 by Tommy Jardine

My grandfather was a dentist in Stourbridge from before WW1 until 1961. He had his surgery and dental workshop in a large house in Worcester Street. In fact the house had two addresses: 64 Worcester Street and 1 Pargeter ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge in 1930

We moved from New Cross, Deptford just before the war to The Heights Northolt. As a child then, memories are now somewhat fragmented but that reflects the conditions that parents faced. As a child there seemed ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1940 by Peter Smith

Our family stayed every summer in the fifties at Elmer Close, where my Aunt Elsie and Uncle Frank Stickings had a wooden two bedroom bungalow. Our neighbours were the Marks and Spencers heirs who had a Summer ...Read more

A memory of Elmer in 1950 by Martin Newell

I visited Cheriton Fitzpaine some years ago looking for the house where the novelist Jean Rhys lived in the 1960's and where she wrote at least part of "Wide Sargasso Sea". But I couldn't be sure which house it was. Can anyone identify the exact house for me, if it still exists?

A memory of Cheriton Fitzpaine by Jeremy Taylor

I moved to Stoke Charity in 1965 when just a toddler and lived there with my parents,Teresa (nee Lansley) and Patrick Gray, and my baby brother Martin. Pat worked on the Rank Estate which allowed us to rent Old Keepers ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Charity in 1965 by Lorraine Boardman

I was born in 1957 in my nan and granddad's house (May & Fred Gloster). I went to Buckingham Road nursery school, then Edgware infants & juniors. I remember the head had a black and white dog and I would give it ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1960 by Christine Isherwood