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I have great memories of my time in Eltham went to Deansfield Primary School and then on to the Gordon School from 1958 to 1962, when for a short while I was captain of the school boxing team, albeit I think there were only two of us in the team. The early part of my childhood was spent living in a prefab in Southend Cres, then we moved in with my Nan and Pop at 39 Arsenal Rd. Mum worked in the
Green Grocers on Eltham High ...see more
I am now 94 years of age, but back in 1941 I was stationed an R.A.F. HF/DF station on Butser Hill along with several other air force personnel one of whom was a Chris Girlow.!!!
Could be the great grandson of the present Chris Girlow??? Please contact me at rebart@bell.net,
Going dancing in the Town hall and also at the Mecca ballroom which I believe was in Drake St.? I was Sheila Kingston in those days
In 1949 my father died of TB, contracted whilst serving in Irag/Iran during WWII. At that time many sufferers of the disease were sent to sanitoriums in the European Alps for a cure. My Father died at our house in the village of River, nr Dover in Kent. I have never been aware of why Dad was not sent to a sanitorium. That same year it was discvered that I had caught the disease from him.
I am not aware of how my ...see more
I am Anne Callow daughter of Jack & Mary Callow and would love to get in touch with any old residents of Souldern.
E Mail address is ancallow@gmail.com
I am researching Souldern of 1960s and still live in the village.
PLEASE GET IN TOUCH
To all it may interest:
I have discovered among the effects of my late father, Roger B Vincent, of White Lodge, Hingham, Norwich, Norfolk, a letter dated March 8, 1947 from the manager of the Grenville Hotel, Bude. Mr R Williamson, replying to an inquiry from my father about reserving a room for his honeymoon following his marriage to my mother, H Joan Harrison, of Scarning, Norfolk, It reads: ...see more
! lived in number 64 Padnell Ave in 1950's and remember the Birchells,Verriers, Watts, Cox, Weston Bissetts, Barrells, Coles, Carruthers , Allens family.
Love to hear from any of them.
Steve Gregory
I spent many happy times at the Cricketers when my mother Rose Marable ran and owned the pub in the 1950's
I used to cycle there every Easter from Bromley, Kent to visit my mother and some of our family who lived with her.
A lovely pub in a beautiful village.
I was born in 1940 in Danetree Road The Plough was the `local` for my parents.
After the war ended,my parents moved in to The Plough and managed it on behalf of the owners,Gill and Madge Turk.The main business was running bars in local halls (Chean Sutton and Epsom Baths)for Saturday night dances.My Dad drove a Ford van like the one in the photo with trestle tables and stocks of beer,which then had to be collected ...see more
I was born at 11, Church Road, Byfleet - the gardener's cottage, tied to 'Wey Barton', Mill Lane. That was then the residence of the Coles family, to whom my grandparents, Bert & Nellie Bird, were in service. We lived with them until 1949, when the 'Big House' and all was sold. Later, in the 60s or 70s, demolition followed, but the new development of houses retained the 'Wey Barton' name. ...see more
After our marriage in March 1962 my wife and I spent a short while in Gillingham, living with my mother and sister. My mother was managing a branch of Stuarts the Cleaners and we were aware that a similar vacancy was soon to be available in the Faversham branch. My wife was lucky enough to be successful enough to get the post. The job came with accommodation over the shop premises. This was a big break ...see more
This photo would have been taken at the north end of Brent Street just below where the road divided to go round some big old trees. It is looking towards Parson Street beyond the junction with Church Road and Finchley Lane. As a schoolboy in the early 1960s, I would catch the 83 bus home from the stop on the left-hand side of the picture. The fare was a ha'penny half, as I remember. The shop with the awning just beyond the ...see more
I was born in Alexandra Road just off the Greenway... In 1948. My family had a great passion for
Football...and followed the local REDS home and away. The club in those days had moved from the
RAF camp stadium....to their own ground " Honeycroft" in nearby Cleveland Road.
Having moved to Cowley I went to games with my mates....Alan Morton,Willie Draper( no not Rod Stewart!!!)..and a ...see more
I was born in the flats in Dudley road in 1947 my mum [joyce] always told me extremely hot summer and freezing cold winter used to play gasworks a lot my grandparents lived at the end of stoney lane inside the gates north cottage it was next to railway line for the shunters and behind there walled garden was the canal inlet my dad Charlie tich and my uncles sid and George also worked in gasworks I remember ...see more
Lived in Badminton Road as a child and teenager. There was a garage just out of view on the right. Used to walk up here to the tube and buses at Clapham South, there was a bus down Nightingale Lane, the 189, which was quite infrequent (in London terms). I also went to St. Marys Balham from 1962 to 1968, and remember Mr Scott, also the deputy head Miss Ellis. Also the Wych(spelling?) Elm tree in the ...see more
Paul Ashton has great memories of happy holidays in Borth y Gest as a teenager when a guest in the home of Chris Moore and his family - it was a magical place and despite changes over the years keeps its special aura........... we look forward to many more visits
The Fish Meadow is just North and East of the river bridge, and in my youth, (as now) was prone to flooding. I remember a year when the still water, stretching across the meadow (as opposed to the main river flow) froze over. Then, while the temperature remained below freezing, the water subsided, allowing the ice sheet to settle back on to the surface of the meadow and actually bend to the shape of the field ...see more
I arrived in Southall aged 7 (September 1967) from Kenya, and moved into a rented property on Lady Margaret Road, just opposite a chip shop that used to be there. I remember a portion cost around 6 old pennies (2.5pence), and were wrapped in old newspapers. Lady Margaret Road, seemed really long to me then, and I remember how pretty it looked in Spring and Summer, when all the flowers ...see more
This is a belated response to Patricia Huxtable who recorded her memories of South Molton on 28th May 2008. My name is Guy Alford, I too was born in South Molton in 1941. My father Cyril Henry Alford owned a furniture shop in King Street where I was brought up with my older brother David and younger sister Daphne. I remember you Patricia and Roger and hope you are both well. I also remember Mr. ...see more
Although I was born in the Mothers Hospital in Hackney in 1957, we lived in Tottenham at Tenterden Road (N17) until about 1970, then at Ida Road (N15) on the then new Avenue Road estate for a couple of years until moving to Wilmot Road (N17) near Downhills Park. I went to Lancasterian School and then on to Tottenham School. My memories of Tottenham include the fact that despite living about 5 ...see more
I used to live at Orchard Place, small terrace cottages on Main Road, St Pauls Cray.
Previous to this as readers may recall I lived at the top of Chalk Pit Avenue in a semi-detached bungalow with my parents.
The move to the lower part of the town was owing to family health issues and the time I spent at Orchard Place with mum and dad is something I remember quite well.
In the first ...see more
Between 1950 - 1980's the family owned a bakers shop at 84 High Street.
P.G.WOODFORD & SON (opposite the Police Station).
If anyone has memories of this period it would be good to get in touch. I attended Beaconsfield Road Infant School then moved to Dormers Well Junior School when it opened in the mid 50's. We lived in Park Avenue, Southall until the late 70's when we moved to ...see more
I remember. ... long bending corridors. Miss Skinner, the best teacher I ever had. I became an English teacher and taught Shakespeare as drama: the way she had inspired me. Mrs Pudney putting two red lines through my English holiday work, tearing the paper... Miss Queen telling me I was too stupid to take optional Greek... but Miss Durante and the choirs, the plays, debates, festivals, discussing politics with ...see more
My name is Bill Dedman i was born in Mitcham 23 Bath Road Known has Redskin Village All so Rocky I went to Lower Mitcham School and Western Road School i still live in Mitcham my first memories are the bombing and the Doodle bugs, the first film i remember seeing at the Majestic Cinema was the Wizard Of Oz , we used to go the Saturday morning pictures at the Odeon Morden one of our favourite places was going to Leo's ice cream parlour Cricket Green also Bills Cafe' in Love lane near the Church
On behalf of my wife (Kathleen, nee Bromley) I am try to trace Gillian Cowking, believed to have been born December 1941 or thereabouts. Gillian worked for a while in Budapest and then later in Paris. Contact was then lost. Any info would be gratefully received. Thank you.
I was 17 years old and lived at no 7 Tivoli Road, and when Father Christmas arrived at the front door with 4 cwt of coal my mum put newspaper down the hall and throughout the house so that the coal man could dump the coal in the shed. So Christmas Day we all sat around the fire to keep warm - and cold at our backs. We cooked chestnuts on a shovel and played cards, and my dad played the piano and we all sang carols. No ...see more
I lived for a very short time with my gran in Liverpool 8, now infamously Toxteth. She lived in two flats on Parkway off Princess Parkway. She was a nurse and walked to the hospital so it must have been nearby. Think it was near Granby Street and Upper Parliament Street. The first flat was owned by two very old sisters (think they were Jewish) called Vernicks - could have been Wernicks. Gran rented from them. She ...see more
regular haught great meeting place for the mods and the live Friday music... some great bands like the in-betweens and casuals meeting place for the week end parties great friends were made abit of jazz around to the Gifford arms 2 names that crop up stu Thompson dave Hadley mick the greek wonderful times 1965 derek hughes
i was born at 18 Eltringham st 1959 my brother is malcolm born 1958 i have a younger sister catherine and my brother john died in 1984. My best freind was sandra davis who ived in no 14 (i think) my grandparents and aunts and uncles lived in motomer st we had a 2 up and 2 down house no bath only tin and toilet out side had not much but life was good. i never in had to play out all day around the allotments and round the slaghips life was good.
I have fond memories of Erith . Both my grandparents once lived there. Does anyone remember Edith and Wally Ayers from Thanet road ? My other grandparents lived in Church road by the Pom Pom. Margery and James Hemmings.
Cwmllynfell is the place that I call home. I was born there in 1944 and lived on Gwernant Road with my aunt Marie and mam and dad. At the age of about five we moved down the hill to number 12 Gwilym Road which was next door to my grandparent's fish shop at number ten. My grand parents were John Walters (otherwise known as Jack) and my gran Elizabeth (otherwise known as Peggy.)
My father Gethin was a coal ...see more
I was born in Park Royal Hospital in November 1951. Lived for a while in Willesden High Road. We then moved to Severn Way, which was off Denzil Road. I went to school at Dudden Hill Infants School. Then I went to St.Marys Junior school. After that I went to John Kelly Girls School. When I was 15 I left school and went to work at the Oxford University Press in Neasen. I worked there till I got married in St. Marys Church. We ...see more
Does anyone remember a 'Residents Club or Working mans' Club somewhere near to Mossville gardens in Morden which was in existence during the l950s and 1960s. They had a dance every Saturday evening with a live band. A group of about 12 boys ad girls used to sit together in one corner - I remember some of their names - Geoff Harris, David Hilliker, 'Bullet', Sid, Mike and Jill Padden?, Chris and Mary, Margaret - ...see more
Hi ive been trying to find any information for my partner on his grandparents who were from we belive millom in cumbria (Phil Cecil Park)i do have some information but would like for anyone who knows any of the Park family to contact me.
Many thanks
I first attended St Mary Cray secondary Modern school, Hearns Rise in about 1958/59 when I was about eleven or so.
We had some very good teachers and most of the lessons I enjoyed except maths which has been a total anathema all my life, figures and me just do not get on.
The art classes and metalwork and woodwork classes were my best subjects and I was quite good at English ...see more
If this was Mr Millers shop I used to go there as a child. He was a lovely old gentleman and I remember I wanted to buy a purse for my mother. As I was only young I used to get pocket money at 1p every so often, it took me a year to purchase that purse for my mother. It was only 99p too, so that says a lot, I worked hard as a child to buy that as I loved my mother so much. My name is Julie-Anne Maughan and my ...see more
Hi yes I think the shop you are thinking of is Phillips they used to have contraptions that took the money that used to go To the till on some sort of rail system - Dorothy Swift
Hello
Does anyone remember the Haynes family that lived on Haydon's Road up until 1953? My grandfather Charlie Haynes died that year and his wife, Violet, and children Colin and Elaine then moved back to Wales.
My father has lots of memories of his years in Wimbledon, particularly playing on the bomb sites as a child. If anyone remembers, I would love to hear about it.
Many thanks.
Mandy
my sister has lived her for almost 30 years. you can just see the large house on left in distant . the road now is private and with gate shut off at the end.
I occasionally stay here for small break and love just walking down to the beach near by. years ago they brought in large stones stop the shingle flying when storms rage.
how things have changed in old days you would be able to leave your back door open for people to pop in have cup of tea, as my mum then child would say. her dad was down in mines digging for coal . then when the national service came about few of her fiends signed up and left the area she was posted to Ling field in surrey
entering large capacity of soldiers bumped in to a sergeant later on in life married
she then ...see more
holidays by the sea. loved the roll call early morning campers. whole group of us stayed there for my 40 birthday . we spent really good times old chalets now gone they would sleep average two people
i was born and grew up in park row, near the pit where my dad worked all his life, my parents were Elsie and Crispin Ellis, I went to normanton common and normanton modern school from where i left in 1963, i love normanton, but the old town before the motorway.
I was evacuated from Fulham south London in September 1939 along with my brother and sister.
my first school was Lincoln Court School in Green Lane Addlestone. We all thought Addlestone a beautiful place which it was after living in Fulham where there were very few open places to play,
Addlestone was heaven. My mother and father rented a house in Bourneside Road, second house
from the end over looking Cox's Lock ...see more
I remember going to newton park school and on the corner of walker road and somerset toad was hamilton's tin hut, selling penny drinks (basically coloured water)
I used to keep my ponies in a field opposite the Mill which was still working in a small way. I remember the dreadful flooding of 1968. We had to walk down Mill Lane to get to check the ponies. It was waist deep in water and when we got to the field the ponies were stuck on the tow path as the field was deep in water. The back of the mill was flats at the time and the lads there offered us a place for the night as it was too ...see more
I used to go there around the same time , there was a man there called Bilko and a young lad called Gellie who used to take the rides out, I often wonder if they are both still about, it would be nice to find out Gellie came down to the pub in the village with my family and I thought he was really cute, we were about the same age, I wonder if that's him in the photo taken back in 1965
I remember the days going to the park with friends playing on the swings slide it was so much fun. I lived in Davyhulme with my parents from 1969 / 1990 .Thoses where the days. Brill. ...see more
I had my tonsils out there too but I was 17.... and I had to eat cornflakes as well! 1960.
The nurses used to wear beautiful cloaks with red linings. I used to think I could be a nurse just so I'd
get a lovely cloak! I used to know every inch of Ipswich.. even the priest hole! And in the Butter Market my mother worked at Reader's Delicatessan where true delicasees abounded........ in the forms of chocolate covered ants and ...see more
I was five years old when my parents bought 3, Molyneux Road , Farncombe in 1930. The houses were new, and there was electricity installed downstairs but not upstairs. There was an upstairs bathroom but the pipes were on the north wall of the house and unlagged, so if there was a cold spell the pipes froze. There was no no.1 but an empty building lot which made s great place for us children ...see more
I loved liscard roundabout at Christmas, all the different things they had each year, the beautiful Norwegian spruce, snow white one year, Cinderella the next and so on, and shopping in liscard village, mainly in woollies, you could get most of your presents there, my granddad told me about the monkey house and the toilets that where under there, when they made the one way system, did they remove the toilets, or just ...see more
I lived in the valley until the very early 60's and can remember Christmas very well. As a treat I was taken to Lewises in Manchester to meet Father Christmas. I can recall queuing up some stairs to visit his Grotto. Christmas parties at Hareholme Methodist Church. Making decorations at school for the class room. Nagging your parents for the toys you wanted and the excitement of Christmas eve and not ...see more
Roger... After reading your recollections of the Woodsend Road I hope you don't mind me adding to your list of memories. It fair to say before I start to write we do know one another and by now we both have a lot of grey hair, or maybe no hair. I cannot help but remember a time when the 23 bus stop was alongside the field of Dutton's farm and the bus shelter was a cast iron and glass structure built ...see more
Sometime in the in the late 1970s, I decided to go on a walking holiday, to follow the line of the old Somerset & Dorset Railway track.
I caught a bus from London Victoria to Bath, and started my walk from there.
I had to use my compass to find my way out of Bath on foot, as of course all of the road signs were for traffic, and not very direct!
One of my over-night stops was at Radstock.
Initially I thought that I would ...see more
From 1950 to 1955 our family, spent whole summer holidays in our caravan at Leysdown on sea. Sometimes we travelled by steam train From Victoria to Sheerness and then bus to Leysdown. Once we used the car but the forty odd mile journey was not appreciated by our old Austin car and we had to give it several cooling off breaks.As far as I can remember only the platform remained of ...see more
In 1949 I and a friend cycled out from Eastcote, just trying to reach beyond the urban sprawl. I know we came to West Hyde. What lead us to the banks of the Grand Union Canal, I fail to remember. About half a mile or so, we came on an abandoned mill. A tall structure was obviously long abandoned. There was still an office and I seem to remember tattered wall paper still on the walls. An old barge was sunk in a slipway. ...see more
James Jim and Henrietta Hall, lived in Fenham and at one time had a greengrocers there, they had large family James, Geoffry, Barbara, June and Margery and Janet to name a few, any memories of the family or area would be appreciated, we know Nana owned a monkey at one point presumably off one of the ships in Newcastle?
We used to go to beacholme holiday camp in the late 1940s and early 1950, a friend of my parents
Had two chalets there, one called Bailea the other was Marlboro, there was a shop next door to
The camp called Listers were we did our shopping, I also remember buses that had been converted
Into holiday homes. There was also music played through great big speakers in the mornings,
They were happy uncomplicated holidays.
Karl Worthington
I was actually born in the village at 328 Manchester Road and have so many happy memories of life in the village from 1962 the year I was born, until I left the area in 1978.
The open fields to the rear of Manchester rd looking towards Aspull in the distance, catching newts in the pond over the fields. Remember Marshall's Farm, Bennett's newsagents, my mother use to own the village greengrocers which I see is now a ...see more
The large house on the left of your photo was the Astill farm house . My grandfather Thomas Harrison originally was the groom to the hunting horses . He later took over as Shepherd to a large flock which grazed at Cossington or Sileby. He travelled by pony and cart to feed his sheep in all weathers . Digging frozen turnips by hand in winter. Dipping them at Sileby sheep dip on Barrow Road . My father ...see more
I attended the Frenchgate School (1954). The head mistress was Nan Woodwark, a tall Viking of a
woman who would oftentimes speak of her Norse heritage. I managed to find her obit
on a website I came across. She lived to the age of 96 and was buried at a cemetery in
Darlington. Apparently her parents had been missionaries in the Far East.
It has been my fate to live my life in America, although I spent ...see more
Oh my word, I was so happy to see this photo. I 'helped' out here when i was 13 or 14. It was a small hotel/guest house. Me and my friend were 'servants' and lived in the lovely room at the top of the house. We worked here weekends for £1.50 and tips in 1973. The end came when i realised at 14 I didn't want to spend Christmas here. I cannot remember the owners/managers names but they were not that friendly. :-) I had ...see more
Haven of peace then..... but now a floodlit nightmare of sports pitches - pity the householders who have to live with the lights.
I worked at the cinema (Then The Century) for 14 years as the chief projectionist. First in 1956 then when I came out of the forces in 1960 till it closed as a cinema. Pitsea had its own power house for electricity. It stood between the cinema and Tudor chambers and powered all of Pitsea including the war memorial the street light all the lights on the canopy around the shops all quite visible in the photo. ...see more
Does anyone have any memories about going to the Kozy Cinema In Hayfield, especially about what the cinema was like and the films being shown at the time.
Barry Hawgood's memory of the carvan site is spot on. Some time before 1952 I went to visit one of my colleagues from West Drayton Primary School. The way there passed by the Anglers p.ub with a branch of the river from Colham Mill on the other side of the road in which I and my friends used to fish for tiddlers to be carried home in jam jars with string handles. The blacktop road gave out and there was a ...see more
I grew up near 7 ways circle between 1950 & 1962. We lived on Derbyshire avenue, I went to Moss Park junior school then to Gorse Hill senior school. I remember my mom working at Rowans green grocery shop & me going to the sweetie shop next door, ration coupons in hand. My dad could be found in the Melville pub most times.Many fond memories. I emigrated to Canada in 1974 with my wife Janet & our two children.
Alan Hazlehurst.
I remember Rabsons Toy Shop, those old shops all along that street I think middle row the street was called, also we were told that a ghost was often seen above the Toy shop, not sure if that was true, I was to scared to walk past those shops at night.
My family moved to Cowplain in March 1961. I was 10 years old and went to Stakes Hill Junior School. From there I went to Cowplain Seconday School for Girls from 1962 to 1967. On the corner of Sylvester Road was Pine Tree Stores. I also remember Carters sweet shop and the electrical/toy shop on the corner of Durley Avenue. We lived on the brand new estate of bungalows on Sandyfield Crescent and until they built ...see more
I remember going to the circus with live wild animals on the site opposite High Street Sainsbury's
and going to the travelling fair on the field which is now going to become Lidl's
On VE day we had a street party on Hawes Lane and it was the first time I had seen fairy lights out in the road.
Born wells gardens 1952 grew up in and around ilford until 1976 my friend Peter still lives on Balfour road. How times have change the buses ran on electricity, no supermarkets. Going to ilford shops with my mother to do the weekly shop. Does anybody remember the greengrocer that drove around in a lorry that was his shop, you don't see the now.
My grandmother, Violet Bowden, worked as a usherette at the Orion. I used to love the Saturday afternoon matinee shows that gave sweets as prizes.
Towards the end of the cinemas time my friend Robert Constable and I were watching a film when the manager asked us if we would mind coming back another day as we were the only customers and he wanted to close!!
Hi,
I just stumbled on this fabulous site as I was trying to find some photos of the Duppas Hil Lane area.
I lived at number 23 Duppas Hill Terrace from around 1963-71 and I would have been 12 or 13 ish when the lovely Croydon Council decided to tear our house down and build the block of flats that now stand there.
In the winter when it snowed and it often did, I remember vividly making a ...see more
Ive been told that i was Born here, my birth date is 13th September 1966, does anyone Know if there are still Files that still available Today that i can try and trace my dad?.....my Mothers maiden Name then was Margaret Wilson....maybe some One can help me!......
I very much enjoyed a short holiday at The Beach Hotel on Worthing seafront in 1976, it was very grand back then, marvellous food and excellent service and a short walk from the wonderful Roberts Wine Lodge and the pier. Sadly this hotel has now been demolished and replaced with a Premier Inn
My parents rented one of these chalets, number 41 I believe, and we used to spend a lot of time down there sitting outside in the sun and walking across to the beach for a swim when it got too warm. We had a calor gas stove and fridge, chairs a table and would regularly have meals down there, and later our first child enjoyed it too.
My name is Nigel Redding and I was sent to Llangynwyd about 1942/43? as an evacuee. I was aged about 3 or 4 years old and accompanied by my older brother Alan who was 5 years older. (Both born in Rogerstone , Monmouthshire). My first memory of Llangynwyd was staying with a Mrs. Murphy in what I think would have been a council house on the left side of the main road from Bridgend. She had a daughter ...see more
On the maternal side of my ancestry, I knew my maternal grandfather for many years. There was a large leather bound family album which as a child, I was permitted to look at. It was after the "all clear" sounded in the early 1940's.
A grand announcement was made that I would now be told something very special.
It concerned the father of my grandfather. He was John Halstead Wood, born Shrewsbury 1858. I ...see more
I am responding to a memory placed here by Peter Madden in 2010 - which I have just spotted.
I was intrigued to read Peter Madden's memory of Stubbington. I was a contemporary of Peter's and recall that his school number was 50. Mine was 83. I seem to remember that he had a connection with Malta, but could be wrong. In addition to the characters that he mentions, there was Hugh Sarah ...see more
I spent most of my childhood years growing up in Cooper Road, Dollis Hill, London.
Back in the late 1960's I always felt a strange and eerie atmosphere when I would walk into my parents house, once the front door was closed, I felt like I was in a tomb, even though my father always kept the house heated with paraffin heaters, I still always felt cold even in the summer time.
My sister and myself shared the ...see more
being born and living in deal from the 'late fifties until the seventies' was such a wonderful part of my life, and has never left me. these photographs and memories bring it all back to me. the skating rink, boats, winches and plenty of tar! on the beach, the night ricemans went up in flames, parts of the channel freezing in the winter of '63. i lived in several houses in deal, my ...see more
