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More teachers from Flaxley Road Primary School. I started school on my fifth birthday in 1950. When it was your birthday you were allowed to play some tubular bells in assembly, first thing in the morning. I ...Read more

A memory of Selby by margaret.raine

We lived in College Avenue late 1950s. Used to attend school there, remember the bakers and brook. Grandparents ran Four Crosses. Used to train spot at site of station sidings/ yard.

A memory of Willoughby by grsims58

Pictured to the right of you Galleon Swimming pool photo and directly opposite was the Burgh Heath Corn Stores. It was sighted on the old Bake House and in the back room were several old brick ovens. I bought all my ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath by Heather Lee

That photo wasn't taken in 1945! That's the location of our SMNCo. Beach Pitch No.2, and when the Southend-on-Sea beaches were opened again to holidaymakers for the 1946 Season, after ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by julian

My parents operated a shop and a stall in Surrey Street from just after WW2 until my dad's untimely death in 1960. My mother kept the stall until 1962. They sold yard-goods and drapery fabric but during Summer when ladies were out of the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon

I was born in Queen St 1942, at No 19 ,opposite the Engine Hotel. I can still see the horse & drays lining up from the top of Queen St all the way down getting loaded up with goods & parcels from the railway yard, and me ...Read more

A memory of Leicester by keogh22

I have not seen any pictures of the Station Yard in Hinckley. My father used to work in B.Ridgway's coal office in the yard. His parents used to lived in a house called Hilltop at the corner of Priesthills Road. I ...Read more

A memory of Hinckley by hilltop_trully

I lived on nevendon road by a yard that made building blocks.. I was only 4 or 5 and remember walking to a nursery school with my mother.this was a church hall behind the police station. I remember the market and good old Woolworths. A ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by wareenh126

Oh the good old days. There was Barclays Bank in the corner and I remember my dad making an appointment to see the actual Bank Manager himself who had his office to the left at the back. I remember the Bakers next ...Read more

A memory of Welling

I went to a school called Fedsden Hall, in Roydon in Essex, in 1950-53. It was a wonderful place run by Mrs. Katherine Clare. Mrs. Clare lived in a big, beautiful Georgian house on the property, with her husband, who I ...Read more

A memory of Roydon by canadagoose