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Strand on the Green was, and always will be an iconic location.  Remember the Beatles film Help was filmed there.  Summer evenings in the sixties watching dusk descend over the river with a nice drink (or several).  A location ...Read more

A memory of Chiswick in 1968 by Nick Beard

My family were looking for a house in Cheshire and looked around Harmel House. I was only 5 years old ( in 1964) but wanted so much to live there. In the garden was what I believed to be a moat full of dead frogs. I am 56 now and ...Read more

A memory of Haslington in 1964 by Melanie Gregory

The lady with the rifle range in Battersea Park was Ma Surtees. She was friends with the boxer Freddie Mills who was later found shot dead in his car.

A memory of Battersea

It is seven o’clock in the morning and the bugler is sounding reveille to wake the men from their bed, the battalion are camped in Heysham head, towards the cookhouse the soldiers do lurch the noise is so deafening, It ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heysham by Eric Brook

My grandparents pub, The Gardeners Arms. In Park Road, was a Harmans pub. There used to be an alley that ran down the centre of the Brewery. I remember two directors of the brewery coming in my pub regularly . MR Green and Mr ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1960 by Tony Rose

I lived in Ellesmere Port from 1954 to 1966, in Wolverhampton Rd. I went to Milton Rd primary then the Wirral Grammar school as the Port had no grammar school then. Every day there were 6 full special Crosville buses ...Read more

A memory of Ellesmere Port by cadnant

Where Leeland Terrace comes out by Deans Gardens there used to be a public toilets before Leeland Terrace was extended. Next to this was a shop called Retlaws. It is now a Pizza shop. However in those far off days Retlaws ...Read more

A memory of West Ealing by Nick Beard

My memories of Wallasey go back to 1945. I went to St George's road school. Mr Sykes was the headmaster. I remember Barry West Valerie Windsor Jennifer Dean and many more. Miss Merrick was our last class teacher. My parents had the ...Read more

A memory of Grosmont by Diane Gornall

When I lived in Wokingham in the 1950s, I remember a double fronted cycle shop on Denmark Street (next door to the entrance to some sort of meeting hall?) - you can just see part of the hanging sign for the shop in ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham by John Buck

The piece of land on the left in the foreground is now a car park with the Ambulance Station and Health Clinic behind. I worked as an Ambulance Man and was based there when it opened, moving from Thurrock Station in Hogg ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by thestockies