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I have many happy memories growing up with my family at 29 Newbiggin Crescent. My name was Janice Cannon and I have three brothers - Jeff, Ted and Ian, and two sisters - Nancy and Jane. We moved to England in 1969 where we are ...Read more

A memory of Tullibody by janicemglover

I lived with my Mum , her name was Olive Hughes in Townsend Road from about 1961 to 1970. We lived at number 148. My Mother drove a Torquoise blue Austin A 40, she was probably the only woman who drove and actually had a car way back ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Beverley Morgan

Hello. Although I spent all of my early life - that is up to the age of 21 - in Penge, South London, I also spent some time(s) in Ash (Kent) during August to December, 1963. I have already written about my early life in ...Read more

A memory of Ash by Anthony Godly

I remember the dairy in Havelock road i was a milkboy helping a milkman on a round in a bedford van doing as far as heathrow airport driving across the tarmac to the aircraft hangers, try that now, i remember waiting ...Read more

A memory of Southall by daleewestcountryjag

I was born in London in 1936but lived in Dagenham, I went to Erkenwald girls school , and before that Dorothy Barley. I lived in the war years I was uneak then because I was the only black child in the schools, I was ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by chloesupergran

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage

Training Pit Ponies at Ryhope Oxclose was a row of 5 terraced houses owned by the Colliery and located at the top of the lane which passed the eastern side of the Cricket field. At the Western end of 5 terraced ...Read more

A memory of Ryhope by harrydhx

The shop on the left was owned by Frank Adsetts. I've spent hours on this street my mum had a friend who lived in the yard a little further up just above this was Nellie Greens shop I was born on Main Street in 1952 we got a new ...Read more

A memory of Swallownest by brain.green

This is where we used to go and play in the 1960 's , we used to spend hour's in the water here , sometimes there could be up to 30 of us . On a SUNDAY morning DAD and me went down here with the car , and it was driven in to the water for ...Read more

A memory of Pickering by anneandchibby

In about 1945 my grandparents took me by bus (or train?) from Reading down to Sandhurst, shortly after the death of a distant cousin, Elsa Stone, who had had an octagonal house built during the 1920s. ...Read more

A memory of Sandhurst by iclt1940