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I left school (Lowndes County Secondary School for Girls) in 1967 at the age of 15 and went to work at Oswald Hickson as office junior. Our offices were above Westminster Bank, just out of the photo on the right. I ...Read more

A memory of Chesham by sylviahornsby

My name is Lisa Rebecca Haynes. I was born on the 13th May 1972 and I lived and grew up in Newnham until I moved to Daventry and left My Family Home. I am the youngest of 5. I have 3 ...Read more

A memory of Newnham by lisahaynes72

I lived in Hamilton Avenue and went to Park Farm primary and junior school as did my three younger sisters. I then went to Epsom County Grammar School, as it was then known, after passing the 11-plus in 1948. After working in ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam by barber.david01

Born 1944 I grew up in a house on the Great West Road, between Springwell Lane and the Broadwalk. My first great adventure: a tricycle with which I nearly broke the legs of several pedestrians. Springwell infants' school on what had been ...Read more

A memory of Heston by tilburycm

My great grandfather, Robert Stephenson, birth date 13 June 1853 was born in one of the Stony Heap Cottages, Greencroft, Happyland, County Durham. He was baptised on 17 July 1853, in Lanchester. His father was William ...Read more

A memory of Stony Heap by grabs

My time at the County School must have been from 1947 until 1951, when I left, to become a trainee Draughtsman at the British Thermostat, in Sunbury I too remember Mr Phillips, who I thought was very ...Read more

A memory of Ashford by donlenunderwood

My grandmother, Margeret Alice Derbyshire, lived at 1 Ivy Cottage, Todhills. My father, Maurice Derbyshire, was born 1904 at Lower Willington. I have a newspaper cutting dated 2 September telling of how my grandmother's father, ...Read more

A memory of Todhills in 1920 by Roy Derbyshire

I was a bus conductor then a bus driver on the United Counties from about 1963 to 1969 and operated out of Derngate. I saw all the little villages and small towns outside and met all the people. Great memories of that ...Read more

A memory of Little Billing by James Stapleton

I too have many happy memories of growing up in Buckhurst Hill in the 50's and 60's. I lived at 25 Loughton Way and went to Princes Road County Primary. There was Mr Carr (a friend of my dads), Miss Gardner, Miss Oram and Mr ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Martin Hough

My parents, John S M Jones and Eileen Jones (née Kelly), ran Nearwell Hostel from 1951 to 56. My father taught at the Tech. I was born in Oswestry in 1950 and attended St.Giles School near the Column while we lived in ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1953 by Sarah Emch Jones