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The road on the right of the picture, which runs obliquely in front of the Majestic cinema, was a route used by trolleybuses (I believe the routes were 630 and 612). In the right middle edge of the photo, the trolleybuses ran to ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by Douglas Tunbridge

The day after our trip to London, I woke in the morning and was told to immediately get dressed and put on my new shoes and overcoat by mother. We dropped Bernard at Aldersbrook School and then caught a bus into Wanstead Tube ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1950 by Gordon Mays Baird

I come from an RAF family that travelled across the globe until, in 1964 we ended up in Australia. Though english by birth, I am now an Australian, but I have fond memories of some parts of England where I grew ...Read more

A memory of The Green in 1952 by Michael Coley

I was a boarder at Merrion House prep school from 1944-1946 when the school was run by Mr & Mrs Brummell-Hicks. It was quite a small school with only two 'houses': the Watsons and the Gerrards. I was a member of the former. ...Read more

A memory of Sedlescombe in 1944 by John West

I have lots of memories of the Marine Lake, fishing as a teenager on a Saturday or Sunday morning. There were many good fish in the lake but you had to watch the yachts did not run off with your line.

A memory of West Kirby in 1960

I was brought up at 14, Ingestre Street and always consider myself a Bathside boy. I was very lucky to have my school opposite my front door. Just up the street was Mr.Barneys shop where you could buy 4 black jacks for a ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1960 by David Corley

I started at Hurn in 1980. I remember having to go to London in the summer to John Lewis for the huge uniform & kit. Having come from a poor background it was amazing that I was going to a private school and ...Read more

A memory of Hurn in 1980 by James Henderson

My Mother and I arrived in 1974, from a divorced Warrington and the dilapidation of the north-west. Merrily drinking tea and eating custard tarts in the bare miners' cottage living room, sitting in a deck chair and eating from a ...Read more

A memory of Gwespyr in 1977 by James Harrison

This is the parade of shops as l remember it from my childhood. I remember at the top of the parade, a butcher's shop, Leila the hairdresser (run by my friend's mum Joyce), which was next to the optician, a grocery store, the post ...Read more

A memory of Epsom in 1959 by Patricia White

I read about a contributor who went to Joyce Williams School of dance and memories came flooding back. I recall Mrs Bigwood making all the costumes and her daughter being one of the older girls in the school. I ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1960 by Suzanne Savill