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This is Mercian Way Play ground and not Cippenham Park in Station Road. We played here only in school holidays, otherwise we played on The Green , 15 - 18 a side football or cricket every evening in the Summer between 1800 - 2030 ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by robkarp97

The picture of the pool on the River Brue took me right back to the '70's. I often used to go fishing there with school & other friends, if we could get a lift. I remember first going with a schoolmate & near neighbour ...Read more

A memory of Baltonsborough by bru.enzer

Hope memorial camp left by Arthur hope in the 1920s, we left our school in London black heath at 8:30am on June 3rd 2019 and arrived at 4:30pm the same day. i was sick twice on the coach and twice in the ...Read more

A memory of Braithwaite

Strange though it may seem, I spent several years at Chadwick Museum in my primary school years. I started school at St Edmund's, which was sited in the basement below the Church on St Edmund Street. From there we ...Read more

A memory of Bolton by j.chamberlain2

I am not a native of Aveley. I was born in Barking and spent most of my childhood in Dagenham. My father's sister and her husband moved to South Ockendon (Gatehope Drive) when I was very young. Every Sunday we would travel to see ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by alansindall

The 2nd July 2021 will mark the centenary of the opening of Cedars Park to the public. The park was given to the people of Cheshunt on 19th December 1919 and it took two years to transform the overgrown gardens of ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt by info.cedarspark

I was at the school from 1971 till 76. The head master was Hugh Fletcher, and the school principal Jasper French. The school was a home from home. I was allowed to join the scouts and also a model railway ...Read more

A memory of Great Sanders School by randall.alfred19

I lived in Shirley (Skelcher Rd) from about 1956 to 1959 and often played in Shirley Park. I remember one time on this roundabout I was set on by a group of older boys who spun me round at high speed. Luckily my ...Read more

A memory of Shirley by rtbcomp

Our house in Westbury Avenue was directly under the bad weather flightpath to Heathrow. The aircraft would come from the Ruislip Road direction and we could hear them coming getting louder and louder by the time they were over ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Lesley Stanhope (Green)

Hi, I have lived here, despite a short time in South Harrow , all my life. I remember so many shops , long since, gone — Sam Lee, toys and sweets, Clark’s cycles ,Coopers hardware, WH Smith, Woolworths, ...Read more

A memory of North Harrow by j.stratford856