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My dad used to run the fish shop in Cranbrook Road (Cranbrook Fisheries), it was opposite Gaysham Avenue, with Warwick Doubles on the corner. I went to school at Gearies Junior School and grew up in and around Barkingside ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside

My everlasting childhood memory of Waterfoot is visiting my Dads auntie Nellie (Ellen) and Uncle Guddy(George) Manning in Waterfoot. She made the most exquisite cakes and would always, at the shortest notice, put on a great ...Read more

A memory of Waterfoot in 1966 by First Name Last Name

My uncle, aunt and cousin used to live a ramshackle cottage just off Bridlington Street - called Creamery Cottage. Probably to the left of this photo and further back. It had a patch of grass in front, quite close to what was the ...Read more

A memory of Hunmanby by Eric Medcalf

Hello I have a photo of a shop called Creek Road Trading Post in Creek Road in the late 1980s it sold jewellery, beers wines and spirits, it looks like there is a garage and petrol station next door. I cant find it on the google maps does anybody know where it was please? Thank you Mike

A memory of Hayling Island by Mike Miles

My grandmother Alice Weaver lived in an old tumbldown cottage at Creeks Mill. She was a widow, and married my grandad George Wylde around 1900. My dad was born in 1903. They moved to Top House on the Highwood. The Creeks Mill house ...Read more

A memory of Hanley Swan in 1900 by Joy Langford/ Nee Wylde

My Dad often talks about Creekside off the Dock Road in Seacome. His Grandmother, Sarah Eliza Jones, married to George Jones, lived in the large house there, and he says the basement would fill up with water. He would also go to the ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1940

I was born in 1947 in West street, I went to West street infants and then on to Crescent road school when we moved into the prefabs in Betsham road. I was head boy at school in 1958?( still don't understand how that happened). Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Erith by duffinjeff

I am actually posting this for my son Dean.  We live in Los Angeles and were moving homes when I came across these pictures.  Dean lives in Scotland.   The boys according to the back of the photo are, left to right: top: Dean ...Read more

A memory of Croftinloan in 1985 by William Brady

I would like to ask whether anyone might be able to help me piece together a mystery. Five weeks ago, whilst walking through the local Derby countryside, my wife and I discovered a briefcase dumped in a brook. There were ...Read more

A memory of Ipswich by Tom Fulep

When my husband and I married in March 1958, he bought the cottage nearest the camera on the left; no electricity, no bathroom......it cost the  princely sum of £300! The building at the end of the street is the pub, and behind the ...Read more

A memory of Croglin by Kate Walker