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I lived at 26 Gerald Road in a big old house at the side of the river Irwell opposite St Bonifaces church and attended St Boniface's school with my two elder brothers Bernard and Terrance, my younger brother Michael and my ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Irene Kerkham

I grew up in Bolingbroke Road in a prefab on Wandsworth Common until I was about 10 and then we moved to Tooting. I went to Honeywell Primary School. My brother and I were always on Wandsworth Common playing and ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by jeannie24

i was born in 1932 in malmesbury rd Canning Town in a house backing on to the railway goods and shunting yards. This provoked battle between the shunting locomotive firemen and my mother drying nappies on a clothes line on the ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by g.olmit

It is so nice to read all the memories of Bradford (the good old days). I went to the student club even though I wasn't a student! We would get a stamp on the wrist so we could go out to the Alessio for coffee. ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by annbleazard

yes High Row did have gents toilets .two sets of steep steps leading down to wash and brush ups by a toilet attendant also I remember a gents barber had a kiosk down there due to council cutbacks everything now closed and bricked ...Read more

A memory of Darlington by tonyandal43

I was born in Vicarage road 1943. There was a butcher named Jim Bound there. In later years the shop dealt in Montesa motorcycles. I knew Mr Bound and his three daughters. Barbara, Julia and Patricia. A late addition was baby James ...Read more

A memory of Watford by plumber

Does anybody remember the market in wye st oo a Saturday mornings I was only small at the time but can remember it I think it sold second hand clothes and odd and sods

A memory of Battersea by barrett.p4

Although I did not live at 10-Mile Bank, my mother told me much about her life there. She lived right by the large bridge over the River Great Ouse with her Mother, Lilian, Dad, Harry, and brothers and ...Read more

A memory of Ten Mile Bank by shropshirelily

My fathers first wife died very young following the birth of twins, one of whom died. My father, Edward Thomas Edwards had three sons , Brian, Neville and ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed by jeangarbutt1

My parents had a ground floor flat in Wood End Lane, and my father worked in a reserved occupation at AEC in Southall. In late 1940, my mother was pregnant with me, and she went to stay with her brother in Durham, wher I was born. I ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by williamfairney