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I lived in old Southall (Norwood Road - Norwood Green end) during the 1960s to the 1990s and have seen great changes. I went to school at Clifton Road, and the school had a great Headmaster, Mr Hancock, for a while. One ...Read more

A memory of Southall

I have lived in Canada now for fifty two years and manage to return to Wombwell to meet old acquaintences. My childhood started in Womwell in 1943, first going to Park Street School and then on to the Modern School. I too danced at the ...Read more

A memory of Wombwell in 1951 by Rita Perren

I was born in Trench in 1948; my father worked at the Granville Pits. We moved to 'The Old Yard' when I was about 4 years old. We had such a good community, the homes were bungalows and houses. We lived in a little bungalow with no ...Read more

A memory of Donnington by Josie Smith (Nee) Downes

I lived in Ashtead from the 1960s to about 1972 when my parents went back to Ireland. I went to St. Peters Primary School Leatherhead for two years,. This is a list of pals I used to hang out with ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead in 1970 by Patrick Mara

I remember being a young whippersnapper in the good old Kippers Junction and the man who lived on the end of the street was named Joe Bigs. But he was always smoking about 20 snouts at 1 time. So we used to call him Old Smokey Joe - he didn't like the name but no wonder we called him it.

A memory of Tullibody in 1980

We used to play on Barney's hills, also known locally as Ashes. I also remember the May Queen and Molly Dancers, the herbalist shop on Rochdale Road, and happy days playing in the muck and near the River Irk! I would have been 8 or 9 ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1959

my family moved to ollerton in september of 1957,from ushaw moor near durham.the move had been delayed by the birth 5 weeks earlier of my sister patricia,she arrived on my birthday,so the children of the family had had to stay ...Read more

A memory of Ollerton in 1957 by Ruth Hill

I have this framed print displayed on my landing wall. When I pass by and stop to look at it, I remember the swimming bath just below the church where I used to go dancing in the 1950s.

A memory of Eltham in 2009 by Mary Donnachie

In the summer of 1952 I learnt that my parents had decided to move from our home in the Midlands to the West Country as my father wished to return to where his relatives lived. It came as no surprise therefore, when one day they ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth in 1952

A precised extract from the chapters in my biography relating to wartime evacuation, and particularly to Garnant. I stared morosely out of the window and watched the landscape slip by as the steam train chugged its way through ...Read more

A memory of Garnant in 1940 by James Tait