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I attended Hackbridge Kindergarten then Primary and later Elmwood High schools Left school at 14 , worked at Croydon Airport as a apprentice engineer for Mortons . I cant say I have good memories of Hackbridge ...Read more

A memory of Hackbridge by scoti49

MY MUM WAS BORN IN CWMAMAN,HER PARENTS LIVED AT 38 TRENEOL .I THINK THAT IS HOW IT IS SPELT THOMAS AND WINIFRED OWEN..MUM DAD MY SISTER BROTHER AND I SPENT SCHOOL HOLIDAYS STAYING WITH THEM. WE USED TO GO TO THE SMALL SWEET SHOP ...Read more

A memory of Cwmaman by Diane Rogers

Although I was born in Whitchurch [Bark Hill], we moved to Prees soon after. However, I was sent to stay with my grandmother most weekends and for a period I was sent to the Wesleyan school. My ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch in 1940 by Jean Mary Copnall

I was born in Nelson Hospital in March 1960 and taken home to Burley Road, where I was for my first year, then the family moved to Lancaster Road, nextdoor to the painter: Olaf Barnett. My early memories were of open spaces ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by roland.patten170

I was born 1965 at Walton Hall and for the first few years of my life lived at Warmfield Lane opposite George Shaw's farm. We then moved to Woodland Ave in Kirkthorpe, a small house with a huge garden that ...Read more

A memory of Kirkthorpe in 1970 by Ian Shaw

I was born in 1965 and grew up in Westend.  I moved  to America in 1988 and have only been back to visit once since then back in 1989/90.  I can't really imagine how much the village has ...Read more

A memory of West End by Andrew Barnett

I was born in 1958 and brought up in Green Street which was facing the Conservative club. I went to St George's junior school where the headmaster was Mr Hosfield; a disciplinarian but very fair. After school I would play ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley by Adrian White

I was born in Somersham in 1940, in my grandmother's house, which was 1 West End. My own house was known then as 6 Trinity Terrace, since changed to 90 High Street. Until the mid 1950s a lot of the houses were quite ...Read more

A memory of Somersham in 1940 by Frances Marshallsay

I was born and bred in Runcorn. I lived on Weston Road. I was born in 1963 and left the town in 1984. What a great place it was. You could buy just about anything in Runcorn from food, furnishing, a new car, you name it and a ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn

I was born in Ramsgate in 1947. An only child, I lived with my parents in Grove Road. I have many happy memories of the town. Each night, as a young child, I used to go out with my father for "a little walk around" and we covered a ...Read more

A memory of Ramsgate by Trevor Brown