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Hi people, Just wanted to share a few memories of living in Harold Hill. My family moved from Bow to Hilldene Ave in 1962, I was 7 so I went to Bosworth junior school which was only across the road from where I lived. I ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Vanessa Jefferson

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

During the1950's, long before the introduction of Green Shield and other reward stamps, members of the Co-operative Society in the days before the Co-op as we know it today, earned tin coin cash money to ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Glad someone remembers the Majestic Cinema at Fair Green. We lived in Norbury, just over the border in Croydon, but my Dad was a Cinema Manager with the ABC chain, and regularly did relief stints at the Majestic when the regular ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Colin Marsh

I remember long hot summers back then 1960’s playing in Crago’s barn just outside of village and picking primroses down the hill at Treburgy Water with my sister .. we had to fill a basket and then when we got home we had ...Read more

A memory of Dobwalls by Janice Webb

I was about 5 when my mum and dad moved us to Sandiacre from Nth Wingfield around 1955, we Loved our new council house in Coronation Avenue, my grandma and grandad lived in the first house on the ...Read more

A memory of Sandiacre by Jean Mc Donald Née Hammond

Mon Apr 4th 2022, at 11:08 pm Lisa Younes commented: Hi I'm Lisa, I have secondary breast cancer treatable but no cure, on my bucket list is a wish to find out any information on a family surname Todd ...Read more

A memory of Drumchapel by Lisa Younes

Sadly, I believe St Michael's Church is little more now than a ruin of it's former self, nothing like it was in the 1940's when it seemed to stand proudly on the hill watching over and protecting the small ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by Thelma Hurly

I spent most of my childhood in Newmarket, playing in the wood and on Bunting Hill shown in the photo with the old Quarry. Every year the hill would be set fire, the fire being lit at the top to burn slowly down, this was to encourage new ...Read more

A memory of Nailsworth