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I lived in no 25 coopers close with my mum dad and younger sister .we moved in about 1961 , it was a brand new house, we went to the little school Chigwell row primary, our surname was widdowson, I loved ...Read more

A memory of Chigwell Row by kmdollyshoes103

Can anyone remember the sweet shop on corner of Crown Street and Qubeck Street opposite the Empire Cinema it was run by a lady called Daisy . I was working at the Post Office and we were her best customers .On some Sundays my pals ...Read more

A memory of Darlington by tonyandval43

I was born in Summerhill in 1960 close to the chapel on Top Road, there were miner's houses in rows, all later demolished. Has anyone got any memories or photographs of any era of Summerhill history. I have ...Read more

A memory of Summerhill in 1960 by Andrew Highton

When the VI rocket raids started we spent most nights in our Anderson Shelter, as did most of our neighbours. My parents slept in the lower bunks in the shelter and I slept in the upper one. In the ...Read more

A memory of Collier Row in 1944 by Edward Lawrence

I am looking for the living descendants of the little known Victorian print-seller and art dealer George Love (1804-1883) of 81 Bunhill Row in Finsbury, London. His son ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1910 by Julia Dudkiewicz

I think this was the year my dear Uncle Jim Crawford died and left my Auntie Isa and my two cousins Helen and Isobel.....all very dear to us in memory. We used to visit them in Polmeur Road, cannot remember the number but it was an ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm in 1962 by Sarah Butt

The shown photo is how I remembered it circa 1955 when I was 10 years old. Very popular venue for Sunday brassbands and the occasional visiting magician/children's entertainers. When the bandstand was not in use during ...Read more

A memory of Kettering by raw50

I was a pupil between 1942 and 1944. My name then was Barbara Brown and I lived in Redditch, travelling each day by train. I went to Woodruff because my father had also attended the school (Walter Brown, around ...Read more

A memory of Barnt Green by barbara

My first posting concentrated on my birth and school life in Barking, next a little about different memories of my early life. I lived in the prefabs in Ilford Lane on the corner with Victoria road, a few more yards ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

i lived at the top of sandy row in the 1950s and used to go up to the institute to roller skate from there as the building was on a slight incline. This was a beautiful old building I can't remember when it was demolished and replaced by the ...Read more

A memory of Belfast by linda_sands