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Born on the 4th January 1939 in 14 Council Cottages, son of Jack and Francis Cole and cared for by my Gran and Granddad who lived opposite, I had super baby years, although Dad was away fighting. I can vaguely ...Read more

A memory of Four Elms by John Cole

Hi all that served at Barwick School, ive been on this site since 2015 and keep coming back every now and again and its really good to see some old names that i remember from those days . Please make sure you hunt around as i have just ...Read more

A memory of Barwick by stevefriendtks

I lived in Foxlands Road in the 50's as a 6 year old, I remember cycling to large deep pits at the back of my grandparents house in Gay Gardens, I think that the area is now is parkland, and perhaps the deep holes were gravel ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Peter Reynolds

Terence Rodin, born in 1944, we llived at my auntie’s house West Avenue/Central Drive until we moved into our own council house in Griffiths Drive. I remember attending St. John’s school on Middlewich Road. There was a single ...Read more

A memory of Rudheath by t.rodin

It was August 1955. School summer holidays and when they were over, it would be time for me to begin junior school back in my Midlands home town. My mother had been preparing for that big event, purchasing embroidered cloth ...Read more

A memory of Penzance by brucehaycock

There've been about 2 feet of snow out there and it's about minus 10 deg, so I thought I'd stay in the warm and catch up on what everyone's been saying and better understand/manipulate - sometimes not so easy - this website ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by Colin Newberry

Lived in Retford Road Harol Hill from 1950 to 1972 name was Margaret Gatrell. Went to Mead infants /juniors then to Harrowfield secondary school. My first teacher at Meads was called Mrs Fenton. The field opposite my house ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by margaretfield49

This picture stirs a memory. Years ago, my wife & myself would stay at my brother in laws at the nearby village of Llangoed. In the evenings Neil & I would walk for miles around the coastal & footpaths between ...Read more

A memory of Beaumaris by bru.enzer

My memories of heyside are of my childhood at black shaw lane school the bomb holes on the field and the river Beal as we used to call them all my family lived in heyside and I remember the people being a close knit community I left primary ...Read more

A memory of Heyside by jujuruskin

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife