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Trolley buses ran along Green Lanes from Finsbury Square; turning right for Enfield at Mason's Corner. The 244 route went from Collegiate School, Winchmore Hill to Muswell Hill. Chalkleys the bakers was on the corner of The Green ...Read more

A memory of Winchmore Hill by Malcolm Geary

I REMEMBER BIRCH IN 1960'S. THE VILLAGE SHOP WAS RUN BY A JEWISH MAN CALLED MR WOLFE. WHEN YOU CROSSED THE ROAD ON TO WHITTLE LANE THERE WAS A ROW OF HOUSES THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THE WHITE HART PUB . AS YOU WALKED UP THE ...Read more

A memory of Birch by franciscaine7

I was born in Hampstead in 1949 and lived with my parents in Wells House, Well Walk. It was a very happy period in my life. I attended New End Primary school and my Mum worked in New End Hospital My Dad use to take me to Whitestone Pond ...Read more

A memory of Hampstead by David James

I have many fantastic memories of visiting my grandparents, aunties and uncles, cousins who lived and still live there. My Bampi worked in the butchers at the top of the hill, My hero, my dad, was a butcher as well but he also ...Read more

A memory of Ogmore Vale by Jan Williams

I Lived at 14 Barnsley Road Platts Common from 1950 until 1957 when we moved to 46 Kingswood Crescent. I went to Market Street school where Mr Ellis was headteacher. I remember miss Mac Parkalin, Mrs Hill, Miss ...Read more

A memory of Platts Common by David Webster

I remember walking to Brierley Hill Grammar school and back home to Pensnett most days, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends. We walked up Mill Street then down the High Street, with Chattin and Hortons, Woolworths to ...Read more

A memory of Pensnett in 1952 by Edna Stephens

We moved to No. 6 Tipton Vale in 1950. Maureen a baby, myself (Valerie) and parents Eric and Joan White fom Fenny Bridges. The house was a new council house, pink and blue. Dad dug out a bank at the rear and we found ...Read more

A memory of Tipton St John in 1950 by Valerie Jordan

My name is Janet (nee Smith) McGraw, I was born in Witham, Essex in the year 1942. I also went to Chipping Hill Infant School. I started school April 16th 1947, the day before my 5th birthday. I remember Ann Goodchild ...Read more

A memory of Witham in 1947 by Janet Mc Graw

I lived at Claylands, only about two minutes' walk away from Penpont. On nice sunny days in the summer myself, brothers, sisters and our next door neighbour Michael Rowe (who unfortunately died in a fishing accident in his ...Read more

A memory of Penpont by Jean Manuel

I was born in 1944 in Great Haywood, Staffordshire, but grew up in Notting Hill. I lived in a prefab in Lancaster Road, W.11. My childhood was full of happy memories and although, as with everyone ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1954 by Christine Pitcher