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I was born in Woodland Road in 1948. The houses were brand new. I used to watch the builders from Dates going up the road to work on the houses at the top. I would stand on next door's doorstep and swear at them as they passed. My ...Read more

A memory of Watchet by Noel Taylor

It was nice to read of some familiar names that lived in Seaton at the same time as me, Jon Sandy for one. I often think of Jane Sandy and where she is now. I came to live in Seaton when I was 2 years old in ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1958 by Lynda Collins

I was born in July 1939 in a street with the unbelievable name of `Dog Kennel Lane` in Oldbury, now in West Midlands, can you believe that? Actually I think it was in the Langley area of Oldbury. As I was so young at the time I ...Read more

A memory of Oldbury in 1930 by Colin Waldron

My grandparents lived on the top of the hill near to the pylon. Granddad was away fighting the war with the Royal Navy, and my Gran and mum, Valerie, toughed out the war here (Coniston Road). The air raid shelter later turned into an ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst in 1940 by Julius Bannister

Around the late 50's/early 60's I was at Pilgrims Wood with my two sisters, Patricia and Mary. It is and will always be a lasting memory of both our arrival and our departure. We came from a loving but dysfunctional ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1960

In the first picture, with Lovedays on the left and the Hanbury pub on the right, the small building below Lovedays was Dai Gurney the barber shop. As to snowboarding down "coppers hill" we used to sliegh down ...Read more

A memory of Garndiffaith in 1948 by Robert Boucher

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

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 was born in 1953, lived at 375 Collyhurst Road, next to the croft, and went to St Malachy's. We lived in Collyhurst Road until they decided to pull all the houses down and we moved to an estate in Miles Platting before emigrating to ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by lbankier53

This was my grandmothers house and i spent many school holidays here with my uncle and aunt and their 3 sons who lived with my grandmother. Long summer days were spent "going down the den" the wooded area next to the walled garden. We played ...Read more

A memory of Kellas by Ann Stewart