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In the 1950's, I forget, but I lived in Risley Avenue. I remember climbing every tree there, and people shouting that the radio license van was coming up the road. Of course everyone pulled their curtains and turned off the ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1953 by Fred Wright

I used to live in No 55 Cody Road in the prefabs, from 1948 until 1959. I returned last year (2009), I found the road our prefab was on the corner of Cody Road and Brookhouse Road. I remember we had a large area of grass in front ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1953 by David Gibson

My family moved to Cannons Green from London in 1953. We were viewed with some suspicion as there were few outsiders at that time. Who were we, why had we come there?! When I started at the primary school in 1956 my dad would sometimes ...Read more

A memory of Fyfield in 1953 by Joan Johnstone

Sometime in December of 1953 I was posted to Preswick Airport from London Airport, being a motor cycle Constable with what was then the Ministry of Civil Aviation Constabulary, for a tour of duty of one month, the police ...Read more

A memory of Kilmarnock in 1953 by John Forder

My mother was Irene Harrison who was raised by her aunt Eve Forster in the cottage to the left of the White Horse, her uncles (possibly older cousins) Tom and Bill Harrison ran the blacksmiths on the village green and delivered milk from ...Read more

A memory of Welton in 1953 by James Sherman

I was born in Hereford and for the first couple of months of my life lived with my grandparents in Lower Lodge, Lugwardine before moving to Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex. From about 1953-60, each year I spent much of the school ...Read more

A memory of Lugwardine in 1953 by Mike King

Some months later, how long I cannot remember for the passing of time means little to a child, except that it always seemed so long for things to happen; but I found myself again seated in the back seat of another ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

The picture of the Cornmarket in High Wycombe pictures my father-in-law, Guilford Emery (now deceased), his daughter Jen (now deceased), and one of his sons, my brother-in-law David Emery. We discovered the picture ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1954 by Mrs Maureen Emery

What an unexpected pleasure it was stumbling quite by accident upon this website this evening! I was born in Croydon in 1948 and lived in West Croydon till 1955. I have very vivid memories of the high street, even of being ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1954 by Yvonne Kolessides

If I remember correctly, a white climbing rose grew up one side of the arch and a red on the other. The path continued straight through the archway, and led up the garden to the two wooden sheds at the top of the ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke