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As a 14 year old I was a 'Saturday girl' at Woolworth's in 1961. I was on the glass counter, selling everything from vinegar bottles with plastic tops, ashtrays, jugs etc. The number of items displayed on the sloping counter was enormous ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich by mrsjdennett

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

My Nanna went to oak bank open air school Sevenoaks kent in the late 40's. We are sending her back to the area for her 80th birthday in 3 weeks, we have been collecting pictures of inside the building but can't find any of the building itself and ...Read more

A memory of Seal by lisajennison28

My great aunts Amy And Bet Arnold lived in Ivy house (22 High st) from 1921 to 1965 when they had a bungalow called Mayfair built on the road to St Laurence's church and the main road, . Sadly they died not long after moving there. Ivy ...Read more

A memory of Rode by mary.barnes

It was early summer in 1967 when suffering from a 'mental breakdown' I was admitted into Macc in the middle of the night, horror upon horror me and my mates had often talked ...Read more

A memory of Macclesfield

In 1949 my father died of TB, contracted whilst serving in Irag/Iran during WWII. At that time many sufferers of the disease were sent to sanitoriums in the European Alps for a cure. My Father died at our house in the village of ...Read more

A memory of Heath End

I was born and bred in Battersea, Firstly we lived in Yelverton road with my Grandparents and I attended Falconbrook School. Then my parents got a Maisonette in Culvert road I then attended Chesterton School. in 1969 I attended ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by lgladwin99

My name is Mark McCabe I grew up in west Leamington , best years of my life ,moved a couple times eastfields, white street , sandfieds, I also moved to market Lavington for a while, the best was highlands farm outside ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by razzel23.mm

Living in Glenmore Drive in the early 60's, it was a new house. I still get aches from the amount of time I spent bent over my bike in the ginnel. From Stansfield Rd. primary and at Kaskenmoor in the first year it ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth

My name is Selwyn Ball, I was also a border at Whitchurch Grammar School in the fifties, and i well remember . Ian Jolly, James Cracknell, Malcome Davidson, and many others .We in fact shared the same dorm. I was a poor scholar and ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch by ball28