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On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

I have been hunting around trying to find details of The Animals band's concert at Eltham in the mid 1960s. My family moved to Lee Green in the mid 60s, I moved to Kidbrooke School for my final two school years, ...Read more

A memory of Eltham

We lived in 6 Promontory Terrace, which was on the border of Cullercoats and Whitley Bay, that was 1950 a time when the Fishermen's Cottages were just around the corner and we would have their Dressed Crab or the Wilecks as ...Read more

A memory of Cullercoats by arnoldlee44

I originally lived in Blackhills Terrace, Horden and went to Blackhills Road Junior School and like my brothers and sister went on to Dene House Comprehensive. As a kid I did not really venture a lot into Peterlee, probably if I was ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee in 1983 by David Cargill

I’m not giving my name, but I have always taken as I found, and Malim AKA Mallett was actually really nice to me and stopped me from getting bullied by another kid, and never attempted anything weird with me or any of my friends. ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House

I was born in the 1950s but, despite having memories of happy times spent in the old bus station in the late 1960s, I would class the 1970s as more my era. Us lasses would sport shaggy-cut hairstyles, mini-skirts, hot pants and platform ...Read more

A memory of Consett by Maria Henderson

I remember the huts in Thames Rd - I lived in No.14, adjacent to the allotments from birth until I was 5 yrs old. Then moved to 46 Howard Rd Barking between Abbey Rd and Gascoigne Rd great memories of both homes. Vivid memories of ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1949 by Graham Smith(Mancey)

I was born in 1938 in Tewkesbury Road,Tottenham. When I was of age I attended Stamfordhill School, in Seven Sisiters Road. I remember they used to have a Barrage Balloon in the playground and we often had to ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1940 by Barbara Saville (Nee Hepting

First to Ingram Infants then to Beulah Boys then to Ingram Boys. Remember the Davis Theatre the Flee Pit on the corner of Surrey Street and Scarbrook Road. The Red waistcoat man who sold curtains and the Sarsparilla Van . I was a ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by johnsperthnews

Hi All. Den from St. Helens. Summer in Anglesey, first car, first boat, first meetings with young ladies of Llangefni. It could have been 1969, I'm not sure now, a group of mates from St Helens set out on ...Read more

A memory of Red Wharf Bay in 1970 by Denis A. Mee