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I remember Beldoms and the Chocolate Box. Does anyone remember the lovely gardens at the back of the police station in Cobden road they kept bees there also. I wonder if any one remembers what we used to call The Shantee it was a ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1945

I was born on a gunsite at the top of chatsworth rd in 1947,does anybody else remember it,ellesmere park was just starting to be built round about then

A memory of Eccles in 1947 by Bob Mclernon

i was born in perivale maternity hospital in 1944. i lived at 97 greenford road up till 1958. i attended stanhope infants, junior and senior school. i lived very near the play park opposite stanhope road. my mother worked at Coles ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1944 by Barry Dady

The park was the place to be on Sunday afternoons, groups of teenagers lying on the grass listening to the top 20 on their state of the art flip top Ekco Radios that contained batteries the size of 6 iPhones, it always seemed to ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1960 by Michael Yoxall

I was born in Barking Hospital in 1967 but my family moved into Upney House at Faircross in 1953 I believe, this may have been when these were first built. I have lots of memories of Faircross Parade, mostly of the different shops that ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1979 by Andy Littlechild

I lived in Battersea from about 1939 to 1949 when we moved to Hornsey in North London. We lived with my grandparents who owned the Southern Dining Rooms, a transport café opposite the marshalling yards, ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1947 by Patricia Hines

I am currently researching my family history, and my grandparents lived at Kirkham Caravan Park around 1952/53. They lived in a small caravan and had their first child, (my mum) at Lytham St Annes Hospital. I have photos of the ...Read more

A memory of Lytham in 1953

My friend Valerie and I used to sit around the bowling greens playing Jack Stones with the pebbles in the gullies.

A memory of Porthcawl in 1955 by Jennifer Edwards

I was born in Frinton Road, East Ham, in 1946. I went to Brampton Junior and EHGS before emigrating to Australia in 1960. I remember Brampton Park, the Dumps, Galleons Hotel (the prison hulks used to hold convicts until they were ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1959 by Rod Martin

My mum Jane Deal was born in West Ham on the 7thJune 1926 and later moved to East Ham 185 Central Park Road on the corner with Ladysmith Avenue. She lived there with her parents Jane and Arthur Deal. and her brothers Arthur and ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1930 by Gillian Barnes