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I was born in 1947 and moved to Welling in 1951. I feel very lucky to have been a teenager in the 60s when music for us really started to take off. I was a massive Beatles fan but loved the other stuff as well. Went to the ...Read more

A memory of Welling by edwin.burkett

The current fad for destruction of our lovely landscape and English and Welsh countryside has to stop! When I first came to Rockfield many years ago (from the Forest) it was a long way from Monmouth, now the suburbs ...Read more

A memory of Rockfield Park by Justin Grant Duff

I was born at the Orsett Hospital in March 1951. First home was in Palmerston Road South Stifford. My first School was Stifford Primary at the top of Mill Lane, the walk up the hill seems to be awfully long now for a 5 year old. I do ...Read more

A memory of Grays by clive

When I was about nine years old, the family doctor discovered a very bad case of tonsillitis. "Better have them removed as soon as possible." he tersely told my mother. With a brand new National Health in place, I was placed into Great ...Read more

A memory of Hemel Hempstead by barnacle.roy

Hi my name is Geradine I have vivid memories of Drayton Junior School Ealing in the early seventies I was approx 8/9years old and lived at St Leonards rd Ealing.Drayton Junior held fond memories. For me.I ...Read more

A memory of South Beddington by geraldineayul

I Join the Railway In the summer of 1953, my Aunt and Uncle were staying with us for their holiday. It must have been my Uncle who first spotted the advertisement in the Dartmouth ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear

I don't have many good memories of Southall. My family lived in Norwood Green when I was born in 1947 and we moved to 31 North Avenue when I was five. We had a street party for the Coronation and my father told me that it was my ...Read more

A memory of Southall by ginacoles

Lived in Masons Avenue from 1959 to 1967. My aunt worked in the Poplar stores in the High Street. I can remember being fascinated as a child watching them pat the butter into small blocks in Sainsbury's and their ...Read more

A memory of Wealdstone by hazeyann

Yes I went to Smethwick Hall Girls from 1990 until it closed. Was very sad as the school had such amazing facilities. I got a better education because of it closing though. Does anyone remember the head teacher’s dog? I used ...Read more

A memory of Smethwick by tinahart1978

I lived in Townsend Rd went to Beaconfield Rd Scool from 1949 from 5 years & then to Dormers Wells until I was 15 when we the mov d to Ealing. Remember the park the Odeon cinema which we went to after school, attended the dance ...Read more

A memory of Southall by 3131