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I was born in Farnham, actually Lavender Cottage, Rowledge, a nursing home I believe, in 1944 and my family lived at Thorndhu (now no. 8 I think) Broomleaf Road backing onto the railway line. My mother and brother lived there ...Read more

A memory of Farnham in 1944 by Wendy Cowen

My father, Leslie Blunden Gains, was born in 1909 (died 1987 in Redhill) and brought up by his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Blunden in Compton at Hillside Cottage. This was the address given on my ...Read more

A memory of Compton in 1900 by Wendy Cowen

My dad bought a brand new house on Craigwell Avenue in 1956. Builder was William Old. I was 4. The house was blue and yellow, 4 houses up on the left from Newberries Avenue. The construction went on for at least two years after moving ...Read more

A memory of Radlett in 1956 by Robin Thompson

The two principal grocery shops in Westbury village, as it was still usually called, in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the Co-operative grocery by the corner of Church Road -- the Co-operative butcher ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

After Townsend's chemist shop was Hudderstone's which was a family business and Mrs Hudderstone pleasantly sold sweets, lemonades, ice cream and newspapers in the front of the shop and Mr Hudderstone ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

I lived in Nursery Crescent 1950-1970. I remember Tyvies chip shop, Hill St, also Ben Johns shop where my mum would send me down to buy a cheap! ham bone. Also Planation and Forge ...Read more

A memory of Rhymney in 1963 by Alun Davies

I was eleven when we moved into the new council estate, Aelybryn, in Esgairgeiliog. My mother had been born in Esgairgeiliog, and her mother was the local, unofficial, midwife of the village at the beginning of the ...Read more

A memory of Esgairgeiliog in 1956 by Delyth Jenkins

We lived in a block of flats, Weihurst Court, Carshalton Rd. This was at the top of Ringstead Road, where the trolley buses came up this steep hill. As a child it was fun to watch when the arms of the trolley came off ...Read more

A memory of Sutton in 1943 by Peter Russell Shurmer

Dear Herbie, You tell me so many great stories. I'd like to tell you one. On our way to Thirsk that day in 1990, Molly, Cassie and I spotted a castle tweaking our curiosity. We bumped over a 2 track path winding around and up ...Read more

A memory of Bottesford in 1990 by Phyl Matteson

I lived in Elm Park Avenue and was brought up there with my two older sisters. In the 1950's you knew everyone along the street my end. We spent a lot of time in Harrow Lodge Park, jumping across streams and climbing the ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch