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My friend Maureen and I used to go carol singing at Osterley Flats. I think they were quite new then, during the 60's. I was born and brought up in Lampton Rd, Hounslow and Maureen, East Acton. Does anyone else have memories ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Rita Faith Pilbrow Carlson

I met a girl in Scarborough the year of 61/62, she lived in Foggathorpe. It was a brief encounter but the memory remains. She was at school in Beverley. Her name Diana Readman. Although I wrote to her a few times I can't remember the address exactly. Is the family still living in Foggathorpe?

A memory of Foggathorpe in 1962 by Michael Denton

My father was in the army so we moved in to the army houses - Coronation Road, having just left Hong Kong. I started at the infant's school which was very local to our house. Then at age 7, I went to the primary school. ...Read more

A memory of Bodelwyddan in 1962

I worked for 3 years as a Saturday girl in Snows the bakers (in fact the head office at the time) at the Brondesbury end of Kilburn High Road. It was not far from the Foresters Hall which I ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1951

I remember my first job in Croydon, it was at Grants. Back in 1966. Just finished school and thought I was so grown up. I liked working there, did not stay long went on to London. Croydon sure has changed these past 40+ years. But it will ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Deborah Giles

I think that the second building on the right is a house and drapers shop, which at that time was owned or run by my great grandfather Charles Benjamin Casey. I believe the family ran the shop and lived on the premises in the period approximately 1880-1910.

A memory of Walton-on-Thames by Edward Casey

I see some of you remember Hounslow as it was, and the ice cream bar in Lampton Rd. I, Rita Pilbrow, lived at number 30 Lampton Rd, born 1946, with my mum and dad and two older sisters Claudette and June and my dad's mum ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1955 by Rita Pilbrow

I was married in St Leonards and St Marys Church, Armthorpe, on 26 December 1963. My husband was Reg Ford from Balby. We worked together at Peglers Ltd, Brassfounders, Balby. We emigated to New Zealnd in 1965, through the Peglers ...Read more

A memory of Armthorpe in 1963 by Linda Norton Barker

Sorry, will start agian - yes it does bring back memories, all these old photoes. As a child I lived in Back Lane, the house attached to my grandfathers Blacksmiths Shop. At the age of 5 - 1952 - I used to walk up Town Street ...Read more

A memory of Horsforth in 1952

My g g grandfather, Robert Jennings, is a resident at the pub with his wife Sarah and their children on the 1891 census. I always believed that he was the landlord as his son, my g grandfather, Charles, and his wife Florence ...Read more

A memory of Rockwell Green in 1890 by Ross Jennings