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My father owned the grocer cum off licence at 1 Regent Street next to Hartleys Sewing Factory and my grandmother lived at 63 Regent Street. My best friends were Pauline Ikin who lived on Main Road and Judith ...Read more

A memory of Moulton

I remember the Ice Cream Parlour opening near the corner, Tony's I think it was called. Being only 13-14 at the time, we could never afford to buy one but it was fun to watch, all chrome and glass, just like an American movie.

A memory of Welling in 1950 by Michael Smith

I've put the year as 1949 but I was born in 1947 at the Ashtree Houses, number 3, the one with the tap outside. I went to the Varteg Infant School, not for long though as we moved to Coventry in the early 1950s. There was ...Read more

A memory of Talywain in 1949 by Anthony Tinkler

I was born in Liverpool (Smithdown Road Hospital that was renamed Sefton General by the time my sister was norn there 19 months after me) and was christened in St Andrew's Church in Clubmoor. We lived for a short ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1955 by Susan Coleman

We as a family (the Olleys) lived for the first 14 years of my life on Priors Hill. I remeber having to go to Jackson's shop and Dick Preddy's for shopping, bread for my mum - a collie dog used to chase me every time down bakers road ...Read more

A memory of Wroughton in 1966 by Suzanne Olley

CAN ANY ONE HELP ME WITH THE FOLLOWING - in the 1970s I was a student living in SLOSH, the student hostel just behind the garage on Amen Corner. I know it has all changed now - so can anyone provide me with details? When was SLOSH ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1972 by Adrian Vidler

My father came from Sabden, his father and mother, my grandparents, owned a corner shop in the same street as a cotton mill. My father joined the Metropolitan Police in London and married my mother who was born in London. During the ...Read more

A memory of Sabden in 1940 by Norman Sefton

I spent a lot of time at Sharps Green in the 1940s and early 1950s and have very fond memories of the times my friends and I spent there. I lived not far away in Grange Road and my grandmother, Emily Randall, lived at Rose Cottage, ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1940 by Maurice Bowra

I was born in 1938 in Tewkesbury Road,Tottenham. When I was of age I attended Stamfordhill School, in Seven Sisiters Road. I remember they used to have a Barrage Balloon in the playground and we often had to ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1940 by Barbara Saville (Nee Hepting

This is a rare photo for me because I worked for about five years on the end stall on the left - third row in from the corner. I worked there on Friday mornings before going to the Grammar school, Friday evenings to ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1963 by Joe Mc Grath