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And so i became a full teenage worker, ha ha , off to earn all that fabulous money, to buy all i wanted and roll around every where in style, be like the grown ups , drink beer down the pub or up the pub in ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood in 1966 by Nicolas Fumarola

What a coincidence, as around 1910 the Smithy was owned and run by My Grandfather also named James ,(a family tradition) there exists a buisness directory in the longshop Museum ,listing many Leiston Buisnesses, showing a picture ...Read more

A memory of Leiston by James Balls

I was actually born in KCH in the 1960's , but my parents lived in Grange Road, Upper Norwood - and that is where I spent my childhood. Went to All Saints School, Westwood and Lady Edridge Schools. Lessons with the boys from ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe

My great Grandfather moved here around 1914 and we have pictures of the family at the house, plus a few sketches by my Great great Uncle, however I can find no trace of this property from internet searches. From images ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead by Carol Walkley

Remember that there was a coal yard near the bridge over the Browney just opposite the old road. Was that the yard where the coal wagon loaded. Remember roaming the streets looking for loads of coal that had been delivered so that ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park in 1951 by Derek Foster

david lewis was my great grandad,,born in brightwell suffolk, he married charlotte ellen allan. davids father was also called david,.....my aunt winnie said he came from wales but all the records said brightwell ,,,so we have ...Read more

A memory of Brightwell by Angela Silk

During the mid-sixties I worked for Bell and Billows, the ironmongers in the left of the picture. A large part of their business was horticultural equipment, and many spring and summer evenings were spent demonstrating mowers and ...Read more

A memory of Kettering by Adrian Speakman

Wembley was a wonderful place to live and go to school. Even now into my 60's I can remember all the shops (not all their names) all the roads, all the back alleys. Growing up near the Wembley Triangle I lived here from 1957 ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by tony.hannington

Not so much as a memory as a search. My family came from Cossington & Chilton Polden. My ggrandfather George Diment was a master blacksmith in Cossington. He made an iron band to repair the great tree outside the ...Read more

A memory of Cossington by mike_diment

My name is Alan Naber and in 1949 I was five years old and started my school life at Red Lion Road school. This is an account of how I saw life at that time with a few additions from other students I am still in ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by oldcyclist