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Another mistake. I have written this with the correct photo elsewhere PLEASE DELETE THIS VERSION My father saw this clock being installed when he was young. It was an electric mechanism but many decades later ...Read more

A memory of Cannock by brucehaycock

As a lad in the 1950's a Sunday run to see auntie in Petersfield was are regular event. A trip to see the lake and try to spot the large carp that would often rise was a treat. On the road there we would often see 'The ...Read more

A memory of Petersfield by rlbicker

Born under a table in the front room of No.7 Hall Road on 16/7/1944 while an air raid warning sounded to herald the German V1s presence above. I attended Aveley Infants and Primary schools between 1949 and ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by ted.hunwick

I was born in central middlesex hospital in 1949 and grew up in harlesden,my first memory is living above john collier's the tailor at 103a harlesden high street, we lived right up at the top and we used the flat roof at the back ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by pamfoster59

On the right of the picture is Eltham Corn Stores, a Pet shop. My mother worked there for many years. Next door there was a Chinese restaurant 'The Three Yen' run by a Chinese lady who claimed to be Scottish! We knew her as Auntie.

A memory of Eltham by mrfixit

There were the Cardricks who lived at the top of Tilehurst Lane and Terrace Road and were a family of carpenters. Then there were the Carpenters who had the garage near the Standard Corner in Terrace Road and the ...Read more

A memory of Binfield by deswendy

As an innocent 11year old in August 1957, I had my first experience of camping in a field in Stanton Fitzwarren. I belonged to a Scout troop from Woolwich in South East London. Most of us came from a poor area of ...Read more

A memory of Stanton Fitzwarren by ianhilton

I was born in Cleveland Gardens In April 1956 and went to Westfield Infants until just before my eighth birthday and then we moved to Surrey. I have one particular memory when it was my fifth birthday. I decided ...Read more

A memory of Barnes by alisonchilton

Hello, I'm trying to find information about my grandmother's grocers' shop. It was in Patricroft. Her name was Doris Beaver, but by the time she had the shop was married to Jonathan Hampson, who died in 1947. Does anyone remember the ...Read more

A memory of Patricroft by johnnymeynell

Hi Guys , Yet another piece of nostalgia from VickyB , I was thinking the other day about the treatment of ailments , from years gone by and the and the things we were led to believe by our parents , grandparents aunts ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60