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I went to st.helens school in valley road from 1955- 59 I remember miss tarry and miss howling who was very scary. If you got 3 very goods for your work you had to see miss howling for a gold star; however waiting to see her for ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by quick_thinker2003

I remember the shop very well owned by Ernie and Florrie Stimpson I used to do papers for him he also served the hospital back in the day with sweets he’d take them over in a Pram the go round the wards , every one used to get ...Read more

A memory of Flixton by longy748

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

I started at Hengoed infants/juniors in 1960. I really enjoyed going to that school because I found the teachers so encouraging. I recall the headmaster was Mr Owen or perhaps Owens. I got the cane from him once I think and no ...Read more

A memory of Hengoed by Robin Davies

In the early 1950s myself and two friends had been fishing at the top of Church Hill, Saxmundham. We stopped at a copse halfway down and explored. Removing some rampant Ivy, we uncovered a concrete cover on a well. To our ...Read more

A memory of Saxmundham by John Fisher

This is me on my lunch break from Midland Bank in Spencer Court. I am the tallest of the three people next to the lamppost. Lunch at the Crows nest or the upstairs cafe on Corporation Street near to Woolworths.

A memory of Corby by Anne Parsons

Among the lovely pictures of 1950s Oakwood is a picture of a lake in Oakwood Park for model boats which I used in the late forties and early 50s. Sailing boats there was a favourite pastime of my friend and neighbour (at the time) Alan ...Read more

A memory of Oakwood by Roger Crunden

Sad boat accident Monday morning 26th March 1877 at Ryton. There were two brothers named Scott who lived in a house on Ryton Island, this was just below Moor Court. (You can read about this in my other stories). The brothers ...Read more

A memory of Ryton

RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale by nemeton2

Before I moved to The Ridgeway in 1955 I live in Woodall Drive and regularly used the 221 bus to trundle up Paines Lane past my school, and ending up in the space outside the RedLion pub. I remember how the bus rocked ...Read more

A memory of Pinner by petereverett66