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One sunny day in the late 1950's the next door neighbour came knocking at our door with some exciting news. A big new food store had opened on the Broadway, Bexleyheath,. It's a Supermarket, she said. It's Victor ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

When I was younger, my Mum and Dad moved from Liverpool and came to live in Crewe. We lived in the Huts from 1945 to 1957. I'm 84 years old now and I remember those days being the happiest times of my life. We lived at 53 Park Place and I ...Read more

A memory of Crewe by maycorbett

I remember as a child visiting my Aunt and Uncle, Nellie and Ernie Cutler, they used to run a pub back in the forties and fifties I believe. For many years I have searched to find any mention of them around the Rowley ...Read more

A memory of Whiteheath Gate

When I was a child, my parents got divorced before I reached the age of four, and I didn't meet my Father until several years later. Together with my Mother and my younger brother, we lived with my maternal ...Read more

A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by Dennis Ford

My grandmother owned the wool shop in the market and I came over every summer and we used to get beautiful fresh baps from the bakery across the road for our lunch and fill them with ham. The market holders were always good craic especially the boys in the fish stall

A memory of Wembley

In 1950, St Ann’s R.C. mixed infant school was just off Silk Street. Salford 3, I think. I remember, aged 3, lying down on the fold-up bed with all the other kids on their beds in the large nursery room in the afternoons for our ...Read more

A memory of Salford

Recorded by Nicholas Reid, Canberra, Australia. I was christened in the Anglican church at Heston in 1959, though for obvious reason I don’t have any memories ...Read more

A memory of Heston by Nicholas Reid

Whenever the annual traveling funfair came to Danson Park in the 1960's for their Easter and Bank Holiday visits, it was party time for the local teens, a golden oportunity to hang out and socialise, meet up with friends old ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

We lived in Blaney crescent in council flats. Six families in our block were #49 Vaughns no kids #51 Catchpoles had six kids, Mickey & David of our gang #53 Groves 2 kids Steve(me) and Barbara, #55 was the Snows with ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by Steve Groves

I moved to Cranham, Lexington Gardens, a new estate when I was about three in 1961. I recall being in the cab of the lorry as we moved from my Grandparents house in Eyhurst Avenue, Elm Park. I went to school for the first term at ...Read more

A memory of Upminster by Paul Bradford