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Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

We bought our house from Fred and Mabel Crossley in September 1970 for the princely sum of £4700 ! ( My father thought I was aiming a bit too high). I never forgot Fred as he told me that he had been offered £9000 ...Read more

A memory of Harthill by richard

I lived in Mill Road during the war years until I was about 18 years old. We used to walk to Purfleet Primary School every day which was quite a stretch. I seem to remember that the infant teacher was a Miss Pond who I believe ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet by michael

CATERHAM HILL - High Street and Chaldon Road I lived in 20 Chaldon Road and 5-7 High Street, Caterham Hill as a young child from about 9 years old. I went to the Infant school in Chaldon Road. On Friday mornings a Siren was used to ...Read more

A memory of Caterham by kjba.hester

We lived in South Shields and used to come to Allendale every year for our summer holidays. Can you imagine it now? A lot people from South Shields used to do the same. We always stayed at the Ashleigh Hotel and once ...Read more

A memory of Allendale Town by jill.graham

My mother passed away in 1955 just two days after my 12th birthday following which a couple who my father knew and who had a handicapped son in a children's home in the village in Suffolk where I lived took me to their ...Read more

A memory of Little Common by bewhiting

I remember growing up in the area beyond the sport's centre at Coxford road was no more than a dirt track that lead down to the forestry commission.The woods before the houseing estate a were immense you could ...Read more

A memory of Lordswood by leeharding1958

I also lived in Leybourne, no8 Grange Close which were the staff houses for the local asylum Leybourne Grange. We moved there in the 1950s when the house were first built for the staff. My father was Jack ...Read more

A memory of Leybourne by chriscroud

I was born at home in Seaforth Avenue in 1948 and had a happy childhood riding my tricycle around to the shops, walking across the fields to Green Lane Primary School, climbing the elm trees en route, going to Sunday School at ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park by lynn.willis

I was born at 12a Coronation Close, Blenden (near Danson Park and Bexley woods) in July of 1947. My family shared the house with my nan and aunts, Molly and Olive for the first 5 years of my life (we then moved to ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by ttvrolfe