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I SPENT A FEW YEARS IN TOOTING, AND LIVED IN ASHBOURNE ROAD, TOOTING. THIS WAS NEAR TO A TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE AND MANY SHARED THE HOUSES IN THAT AREA AS STUDENTS. I HAD MY FIRST CHILD THERE AND KNEW MANY PEOPLE IN ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by cindyandjohn

Callis Yard Stables are just behind Powis Street today, they have been unused for many years. The council sold them in 2008 and since then the building has stood unused and ready for redevelopment. I was wondering if anyone ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich

I was born in 1934 at Weybridge in Surrey, close to where the River Wey joins the Thames, thus offering the dual attraction of open countryside and water - a totally irresistible combination to young boys set ...Read more

A memory of Weybridge in 1940 by Stephen Squires

I was the last of our family ( the Panto's ) to be born at Ceinws Villa, now Ceinws Bach I believe, on the 6th Nov 1947. my taid. mother and I moved to Tai Isa' just after nain died.I went to school in Corris and ...Read more

A memory of Esgairgeiliog by Gwynfor Jones

The Common, which is a delightful huge stretch of open ground from Cardiff Road to the Westra, was the sporting centre for the villagers. Here the cricket club played and the rugby club also held their ...Read more

A memory of Dinas Powis in 1966 by Gerald Davies

The Police officer on duty standing on the pavement is my great grandfather, Thomas Rees, Pc No.2, who served from 1903 to 1911 in Carmarthen town. He was one of the twelve ' Coppers' of Carmarthen ...Read more

A memory of Carmarthen in 1900 by Paul Rees

I was born in Chirk Cottage Hospital and brought up in Glyn Ceiriog. I had a very happy childhood attending the Controlled School and later the Board School. I was a member of the Urdd and as a school we travelled and stayed with some ...Read more

A memory of Glyn Ceiriog by Rhianon Ashmore

My father was a teacher at Pyrford School when Len Cowie was the headmaster. I remember Mrs Jones and Mrs Bugler and Miss Mcdermot and Mr Stevens, who lived by the old school in Engliff Lane. I remember being privileged to sometimes ...Read more

A memory of Pyrford in 1965 by Adrian Bray Bray

My father was Rev R G Cowie, who was before Rev Reece Jones. We came to North Somercotes in 1939 from Newcastle and I had an idyllic childhood in the vicarage. I remember a bomb fell in South Somercotes, I also remember ...Read more

A memory of Saltfleet by Elizabeth Bellamy

I was born in Woolwich in 1948. The things I remember of the shops in Powis St; David Greggs was where my mother would send me for ham off the bone, I also remember Biddles Fruit and Veg which was just off the High St. The R.A.C.S. ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1956 by Ian Connelly