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This is me on my lunch break from Midland Bank in Spencer Court. I am the tallest of the three people next to the lamppost. Lunch at the Crows nest or the upstairs cafe on Corporation Street near to Woolworths.
I had happy memory in Pagham my dad was the steward of the club, all the railway carriages as our bed rooms, full size billiard table that i spent hours on when club was closed. All the visitors in the summer remember most of the were from London.
I remember living in the Nissan huts I thought it was upper Cullen or sometimes called the camp. I went to Gracie’s hill school.I Lived there with my parents and siblings until about 1955 or 1956.
Hello Everyone,
Over the years I have been looking at my family history, in fact in 1985, while living in Shetland, I started to trace my family name. Now leaping forward to the start of this awful time, I commenced a more in depth search, finding that many of my family were in the Tanning Industry. Through various sources I have discovered that my paternal Grandfather lived with 13 other family members at ...see more
I was placed in Bramcote 1983 at the age of 9 for a year. I liked it a bit but only as I was getting physically abused by my step mum at home daily,it was a break from the beatings for a week,we would all go home at weekends except for the disabled block kids which scared the heck out of me. I have random memories of the place and there all pretty mental. I remember hardly any school ...see more
I kept looking at this photo & wondering why it seemed a familiar view...Then, with the aid of maps & old pictures realised it was taken from the field (Barren Down?) behind my old school, Ivey House. On the right of the picture is the old Hospital, & you can make out the church of St Peters & St Paul in the middle distance. The wall you can see is of the back gardens of the houses in ...see more
i was born on donnison street my parents was harry and doris masterman, my house backed on to the justice birch pub and i went to st marks school. Like most of the people at the time we moved to the concils estates like hattersley. My family lived round there for many years
Hi all, I have moved into the block of flats that used to be the church at the end on Westfield road, Croydon. I’ve come on here to find out if anyone can educate me on the history of what happened in the area.
Myself and some of the residents who live in the building have been experiencing some weird things in our flats i.e shadows of people, sounds of children’s footsteps running in vacant ...see more
I was born at number 8 Castle Street, the Barbican Plymouth 1942 my mum was a daughter of the Higgins family. G G
Grandad use to run his boat from the Barbican across to Jenny cliff / Cawsands / Kingsands /Bovisands and when I was older as a little boy I used to help him. My Name was then Stocker but my mum died when i was very young indeed i never knew her, Her Sister adopted as she ...see more
I was born at the Grange Nursing Home in Berkhamstead on May 16, 1950. Dr Waterman delivered me. Do you know where it was located ? Any pictures or insights to the Grange Nursing Home ? I live in Seattle Washington USA now and would love to find out more. We lived at 35 Shrublands Road in Berkhamstead while my father was stationed at RAF Bovington with the USAF.
If there is any one alive who went to Widdecombe House (The school to shock Britian) please text me dianna.earley@ntlworld.com Thank you.
My parents taught at Kennylands in 1950/3. I have photographs of their time there. My Godfather was John Delves who taught history and also there was a Mr. Dicky deWanderler who had been a ballet dancer. He chain-smoked and drank endless coffee.
My parents moved to Uganda to run a farm school in 1957 and I went to the local primary school in Jinja until I was 10 when my father thought it best for me to ...see more
I loved Rookesbury. On our third night my new best friend and I got the hot rubber slipper kept in the only hot radiator for looking out of the windows by Mrs Burrows.
Educationally I learnt very little but spent four years learning how to have fun, run around stunning grounds, cause mischief .
I did adore Miss Mcvicar who by the way became first woman deaconess.
I had ...see more
The lovely talented and sophisticated Miss Bartlett took the youngest class. I think she may have been to art school cos she drew a Spanish Conquistador (complete with sailboat steel helmet) in coloured chalk on the blackboard, dressed fashionably and smoked orange filtertipped cigarettes. Mr Cripts next door toiled to improve our reading, (tho I felt a bit peeved when he later married the lovely Miss B). Mrs Brown, (who ...see more
Hi All. I lived in Collyhurst (48-61) and loved my childhood there. Went to St Catherines before we moved to Heywood in 61. Some of you may remember my Mam and Dad, Margaret and John, (we lived at 51 Dalton St). I have just started a long course in Photography at Falmouth University, which finishes in December 2022. For my major project I intend writing and illustrating a book based on the 1950s memories ...see more
Love this photo, when I started work at Barnsley Parks Depot in 1987 this slide was still in the park... biggest one I've ever seen and still much loved at the time... alas it was removed shortly after, but its still a fab play area to visit with the kiddies...
Can anyone remeber the bmx track built up the rec in the 80s.
Would love to see some photos
Your Mam Margaret has been trying to find you for years and years and never has and never will stop thinking about and loving you. It was not your Mams wishes for you to be adopted you were taken away solely because she was unmarried.
If any of the above information connects to you PLEASE contact me through here and I will pass on your details to Margaret as she would dearly love to hear from you.
Otterington Hall is close to South Otterington, North Yorkshire and dates from the early 19th century. I was born in the gatehouse of the Hall, The Lodge, in 1947. The owners were the Furness family (involved in shipping), Sir Stephen and Lady Furness. My grandfather was the chauffeur, probably from the late 1920s. I lived there until I was 6 and had the run of the estate.
Heather Benton - at 10/11 years' old I attended Moseley College and remained there for the rest of my schooling. It was a wonderful old building with laurel surrounded gardens where we pupils spent hours of break time making up stories of family adventures until it was time to return to the class rooms. There was one tennis court at the top of the garden where ALL sports like tennis/netball/rounders etc ...see more
My family lived at 45 Blackburn Drive, Cowdenbeath from 1954 to 1963. Does anyone have a picture of a similar prefab that they could share with me, please?
I lived in Perysteeete, Perry Vale from 1950 until I was 20 years old. Our Primary school(, Christ Church . C of E) was opposite our flats, and it only took seconds to get into school...just before the whistle went!
Memories of the celebrations of the Coronation includes a party held in the Foresters Arms,where our dad sometimes played the piano, and all the residents paraded around the block...,including a ...see more
I'm actually asking if anyone has any Memories , or knows of any stories about the Crown and Horseshoes in the 1930s . I'm writing the 'story' of our Family History and would love to hear anything at all about The Crown and Horseshoes during this time . If anyone knows anything about the old lady thought to Haunt the Pub , that would be wonderful too !
Thank you,
Sally
I came across the stories related to Palmers Green and was immediately taken back to my early years at Franklin House school in the 50's and 60's. I smiled when I read about the visits to Dom's Cafe, just a five minute walk from the school. My entire lunch money would be spent on a Cola float, Coke and ice cream with a cherry and a fruit pie for dessert! How everyone stayed so skinny in those days I have no idea! ...see more
I was born in Windsor st 1950 Major was my maiden name I went St Oswald school till 11 then on to the New Albert Memorial secondary modern left there at 15 to start work
I started at The Mount in September 1947 when I was 3.5 and remember the uniform so clearly - plus of course the liberty bodices with buttons on for the elastic to hold up one's stockings.
I was one of the very few children who could not only read but tie my own shoe laces and consequently was given the job of tying everyone else's!
I remember the ghastly school lunches - watery mince or graveyard stew as ...see more
Born in 21 south terrace chopwell had a few friends with whom I played football on the green every night then into the street under the lights till mom called me in . Then the boys were mad at me because I had the ball, game over. I started to play cricket for the juniors at around 13 or14 yrs old ,this was a great memory for me. There was a garage with big lorries that wasn’t far from my house ...see more
My name is Keith Rattray. I lived at 44 Radnor Road, Peckham from 1943 until 1956. My sisters are Joyce, Denise and Janet, all older than me. Joyce passed away in early 1960s but Denise lives in Princes Risborough and Janet lives in Arizona. My Peckham memories are brilliant - the house we were in was basic although I didn't know that at the time, it was just home. We had an outside toilet, no bathroom, cold ...see more
Met my wife to be, Gill Allen, on Sunday 21st August 1966 at one of those dances.
Still remember the first time we made direct eye contact. (Sweet) (Trapped). (Lucky).
Great groups for the time including The Mojos?
Married at New Haw Church 1970. Still tethered.
I was born in Draycott in 1956. Bill and Ida were my parents and David and Susan are my big brother and sister!
I have so many happy memories of this wonderful village. I went to the village school which now acts as the village hall. Mrs Kiefer, Mrs Thompson and Mr Thompson (Head Teacher) forever in my memories.
My aunties Anne and Molly ran the Swan inn ably assisted by my ‘uncle’ Cass. They all now lay in Handbury church yard, along with so many others I remember from my childhood.
Came across this site whilst looking up about Soman Sports. I was doing some sorting out and came across an old paper bag with their name on it. I was a paper boy for Smiths for many years as were my siblings and delivered papers to most of the roads in Hatch End during my 5-6 years there.
I attended Grimsdyke school before going to what was then Blackwell Secondary School. I remember many of the shops ...see more
I worked at May & Baker in the 80s , I was in the sterile products building ( both old and new ). I can honestly say it was the best time of my life, the Company cared for it's workers in them days, and we had a great social club with sports amenities including a bowling green !!! . I met lots of great people and even fell in love with someone. A lot of the buildings had seen better days but they all had a story to ...see more
When I was 8 or 9, (1961 or 1962) I attended the old, one-room primary school in Blandford. We used to have hot school dinners delivered in a van every day. The school room was heated by a huge stove in the centre of the classroom, with a large chimney up and out of the roof. I lived a couple of bus stops from the school but I’ve no idea of the school’s exact location.
If anyone attended the ...see more
Of course l did'nt realise how picturesque the building was when l was a pupil there 1955-1958. Fortunately, Edward Callum did and his painting is "normally" displayed in Wardown Museum. (Hopefully in its entirety cos little more than the janitors cottage is shown on my ph??
On that sunny day in 1969, he managed to capture the colours of the masonry handsomely.
This junior boys school sat squarely at ...see more
The church was the view from my bedroom window. I lived in the Old Smithy for a few years, renting the property from a very posh estate agents from Shrewsbury.
It was cheap. But had no heating, & electrics that tripped out when you turned the cooker on. So my friend & myself survived on food cooked on a camping stove & a slow cooker/deep fat fryer. Or, if we were feeling flush, a ...see more
Spent a good deal of time here in my younger years. My brother & many of his friends worked at the MoD,, & had what they called 'the Tuesday night cinema club'. Good or bad, most Tuesdays would see us at the cinema in the Winter Gardens to see a film, going for a drink - or 3 - after in the Unicorn or Nags Head. Another popular pub was The Morgan (not the later one near Barnards ...see more
this photo is of the back of 79 old lark lane the wall you can see at the front held the garden to the corner shop...the river is just below,,,,my brother had just been born and the nappies can be seen on the line !!
this photo is of me Adrian Cottrell, David Morris with the cowboy hat and Julie shaw. we lived at 79 and moved just after this photo was taken.....my grandparents lived in the house after, Simon and Zena Cox. the house was demolished in the 1990s
At the ripe old age of 89 years I well remember my years at what I have always regarded as "Home.".
In 1931 I first entered the world, living in Wembley, but in 1935 I recall my father meeting Harry Peachey of Belton Estates and arranging to purchase a yet-to-be built semi-detached house in Northwood Hills. The road at that time was unnamed and in discussion with Harry Peachey ...see more
Hello....Why is there apparently no Industrial History society in Plymouth ?
I would like to contact anyone who has memories of the Tecalemit company, in Belliver Industrial Estate, and particularly when they were joined by Merryweather company in 1984.
In the early 1940's a new family child was born at the Membury Post Office. We were in Membury for only a short time. before returning to England's north west where I was born in 1939.. My dad was in the Royal Navy.
I have a memory of pedalling down the very narrow road in my pedal car near to the church when along came a tractor or a truck I can't remember which but I do remember being terrified. But all was well. ...see more
We lived in Winderton till I was 3 yes old. I remember it well and would love to live there again. I enjoyed going for walks on the lane by the church with my mum. It was so innocent and we were safe there. Running about with my two older siblings. We were protected from the outside world and all its dramas and threats. I am thankful that we are indeed blessed to have these memories.
A wet and cold rainy winter day - Deiniolen looked very bleak - I was later to meet some wonderful people who changed my early impressions. One person in particular Myfanwy Crane, living with her grandparents in Pentre Helen and her friends create many lasting memories. Anyone else remember those times - circ 1973-75?
GB
Hello, Does anyone remember working for Hymac? Some of their people later went to work for Merryweather in Rassau Industrial Estate around 1980 to 1984.
I remember Malcolm Hulett, also Lesley Jones who came from the steel-works.
Please send memories.
I moved to Old Langho in I think in 1954, I was an orphan I went to live with Mr and Mrs Pye.
We lived at number 42 Larkhill, Mr and Mrs Pye where nurses at Brockhall hospital.
There is a bit of a field between the two rows of houses we used to play football on.
bonfires on November 5th.There was a bit of a wood separating the estate and the main road where the buses to Blackburn used to pull ...see more
Hi
I would just like to share memories with anyone who knows me and remembers Ormiston in the sixties and growing up there. I went to primary school in Ormiston from 1958 to 1965 and I'm trying now to remember teachers at that time. Those I do remember are Jimmy Mann ( headmaster ) , Miss Cairns , Miss Taylor ( I think ) , Jonnie Watson ( the janny ) and after that I'm struggling. Would be nice to hear from anyone I was at school with. Happy days.
Bill Thomson.
Does any one remember Mr Crisp a qualified fa coach and also history teacher
I have discovered that this hotel was owned by my 2nd cousin twice removed on my maternal side of the family. Mr Cyril and Mrs Grace Ayles are my ancestors. I discovered they owned this place from their probate listing. I found a newspaper report that Grace died from a long illness, but what I cannot find is a newspaper report of how Cyril died. Considering they were a local business and apparently involved in local ...see more
When in 2018 I started work as a supervisor in a shop on Church Street, it occurred to me that I had had four jobs & two volunteer posts on the road.
The first was a temporary job in the late '70's under the Job Creation Scheme. We were working for the Council, the depot was in Pickersleigh Road (now a builders merchant), next to Prospect View. But our boss was based in Church Street ...see more
i was born on queen st newton heath 1962,went to briscolane scool for a sort while,lots of family lived in newton heath,would love to see pics of queen st,was pulled down years ago dont remember alot only brookdale park at the end of our st ,would love to see pics
On May 11, 1902 the Sunderland registered schooner 'Flown' caught fire off Lowestoft.
I chanced upon this site. It brought back great memories from early 1980's. I met 'Kathleen' 'Kathy' at Preston Cross Hotel, I was as a receptionist there . Nito's People were the resident band. At the weekends the hotel held dinner dances. Kathy and I worked at the dinner dances, taking the guest coats and doing the guest billing. As I remember her husband was Alan and they had a daughter Sylvia. They owned the Granary, in Great Bookham High Street. I remember they sold animal feed
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My parents were from Shoreditch and Clapton and moved to Leyton. Because of the war my mother was sent to Willersley Castle in Derbyshire to give birth to me. We were living in King Edward Rd when we were bombed out and spent the following years in a Nissan hut somewhere between Whipps Cross hospital and the Green Man.
My parents started a tie making business at 589 High Rd Leyton and we lived above the premises. ...see more
During the '70's I lived in nearby Shepton Mallet. After I'd left school many of my mates & myself bought motorbikes, Glastonbury was often a destination - my first bike was a very unreliable Czech made CZ175. Luckily, near the top of the High Street was a dealer who specialised in them, so I'd often go there to buy spares.
We'd have tea/coffee in a little café called, I think, the White Cottage, down at ...see more
Hi everyone,my name is Jeff pointer,I was at longhouse from 1976 upto1980, does anyone remember me ??
My Grandfather Henry Weller ran his rose nursery here and brought up his eight children. As a young boy in the 1940’s I used to go and fish in the lake and play in the brickworks behind the house.
The path leading to the house I remember being red from crushed bricks with an archway of roses and roses all around on both sides, it really was a beautiful sight. If I was good I was given some sweets from the shop ...see more
I went to Saint Mary ‘Covent school Late 1950, was never told who my father was , or knew any of his family was. l believe I might have a half sister.l lived at 189 Clapham Park Road,next door to a old car parts seller, known to me as Uncle Les and aunt Lou. They looked after me a lot . Really love to find out about my real family my mother’s name was Kathleen Edith Hennessy . Please can anyone help me .
not so much a memory but query? we had family living at glamis (lodge?) around 1900 is the house still there??
I remember staying for a week at Burnmoor Lodge back in the 1950's when it was owned by the Covenanter Union who ran outward bound type courses for young Christian lads. We had to get the Eskdale Railway to Boot and walk to the Lodge. I remember some of us going off and climbed Pillar Rock and spent the night there before climbing back down and going to Wasdale Head for a very welcome breakfast.
A pleasant comment on my last memory, made by Mr Steve Flora, whom I’ve never met, has prompted me to tell some more stories about Upper Boddington.
On November 25th, 1944, a Wellington Bomber; no. LN242, took off from Chipping Warden airfield.
Unfortunately it developed engine problems. I am sure that the pilot did all he could to control the aircraft but, with fields all around, the plane hit the ...see more
My dad, Ken, was born 13 May 1938 in the front bedroom of 5 Gallards Hill - he was the youngest son to Sidney and Gladys Taylor. My grandad spent almost all his life in the Leicestershire Regiment. During ww2 my grandad was captured and was sent to a POW camp, he was repatriated late 1944. He was only home for a short time - sadly he died 30th January 1945, in the same bed my dad was born in nearly 7 years ...see more
In 1960, Mick Turner and 8 other tradesmen purchased land behind the Sunninghill Post Office, called HighClere, where they drained the lake and built 9 bungalows. It took 3 years working every spare hour outside of their daytime jobs to complete the build. I was 11 when ours was completed and I moved into Highclere.
For 3 years every day after school, I delivered Pharmaceuticals for Blackburn’s chemist to ...see more
My maternal great grandmother (or possibly Great Aunt), Mrs Curtis, was of Romani (Gypsy) descent and lived in one of the row of cottages that fronted the Rye (Pann) Mill on London Road, High Wycombe, opposite the Trinity Church. The cottages have been demolished and the mill refurbished. According to family hearsay, Mrs Curtis was a master wicker basket weaver and wove a crib (cot) for a member of the royal ...see more
During the late 1960s I lived in Mill Road just down from the railway station. Our house was opposite Churchfields Road. Some way up this road on the left hand side was some kind of institution where teenage girls and young women lived. This was close to Grosvenor House, I believe. Every Sunday, a procession of these female residents would walk in pairs presumably to church. I was ...see more
I stayed here with my parents in about 1968, when I would have been 10. We were visiting my great-uncle, the pioneering air-to-air aviation photographer Charles Sims, who lived at Wootton, near the then recently closed (and now happily preserved) section of the Ryde to Newport line.
My two main memories are that in those pre-child-friendly pub days the licensing laws made it necessary for me to be escorted round ...see more
Living in the outlying village of Doddington, Sittingbourne was our nearest town for shopping, services and entertainment. My Parents ran a children's home in Doddington at the top of Chequers Hill from about 1949 to about 1965. My first school was a private house in Sittingbourne, I am unable to remember the name of the lady who ran it. At the age of 7 years I started attending Doddington County ...see more
My parents ran the Swan Inn in Newtown Village just outside Newbury from 1936 to about 1943, This was before Greenham Common became an American Air Force Base when it was just a Common. Originally Newtown was called Newtown Water because of a river/stream that ran across the road just prior to reaching the Swan. The main road past the Swan was the Winchester Road.
Howard Johnson
As a child I lived just a couple of hundred yards from that zebra crossing. Out of shot on the left was the Pavilion cinema - many happy memories spent there, though I had a stronger bond with the Palace, the other picture house in town where my grandmother worked as an usherette and for whom I delivered the weekly listings to several of the shops seen here in the farther distance: Freeman Hardy & Willis and ...see more
Does anyone remember a bakery, run by someone bearing the name Burgess, which also sold iced cakes? My Father worked there before the war and learnt to decorate cakes. Although eventually following a completely different career path he continued to make the most amazing birthday cakes for myself and my siblings. Much of his life is surrounded in mystery and I would very much like to know more about this phase, the Burgess family and what happened to the bakery.
The Pinehurst Boarding House in Ilfracombe on Chambercombe Park Road was our holiday destination when I was very young for a number of years. I always looked forward to these with great excitement. It looks as if it is now a care home, can anyone confirm for me that it is the same house. I remember a tall red brick building up a steep hill but not much more. The owners, Chris and ...see more
Born in Woodford Wells in 1946 and lived on the High Road a few doors away from The Travellers Friend and the Simmonds Art Shop where my good friend Roger Simmonds lived. We had a wonderful childhood, we shopped for sweets in The Milk Tray a small sweet and tea shop where later my mother worked for a Mrs Romain and her son Duggie.
I went to school at Woodford Green Primary where my first teacher was Mrs ...see more
I was at school here from the time I was about 4 till 11. l remember the classrooms had colour names, the Green Room, the Blue Room and so on. As small children we had naps after lunch when we lay on little wooden tables - it sounds odd now, but this is what l remember. There were very few of us in my class. Rosemary Thoday and Philip Coe and Susan Wilson and just a couple of others. Mrs Hewlett ...see more
We moved to Foxley Close in July 1968 from Manford Way, Chigwell, where we'd been living in a prefab for 4yrs. Moving to what was known then as a "double prefab" was definitely a move up for our family of 5. My parents, my brother (10yrs), me (8yrs) and our sister (6yrs).
My dad had just returned from 6 months in Canada where he was working and my mum started working at Ozalid in Loughton. After my dad ...see more
No way did there used to be a lido in the park! Its such a shame its not there anymore because now the closest swimming pool to kingsbury high school is in harrow and its an indoor. If it was still there im certain it would be packed every single warm day with kids from my school
Its a shame its usually empty now but my mum and i have been going Wimpys ever since I was around 5 or so. Lovely little place, hope it stays for even longer
I was a student at etton pasture school from 1979 till 1984 my name was sharon Busby an I was good friends with Patricia partridge Tina Adams an many more I remember my hostel teacher was miss Helen shucksmith an miss Wiseman I also remember mr bunn mr Mercer an many more
This was almost certainly a bandstand. There is a bandstand of the right shape marked near the bowling greens on the 1932 25" OS map, surveyed in 1929; this was not marked on the 1912 edition, surveyed 1910. A similar bandstand was built in Centre Vale Park, Todmorden in 1914, which is now listed, see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1467822 as the only known surviving example of this design. ...see more
I purchased a beautiful framed/ annotated copy of this photograph for my Mum, who is:
A young ( 12 or 13 year old) Valerie Williams crossing the road to go shopping for the family, who were from Frampton Road.
Your dating c. 1950 is correct (would have been after her 12th birthday in late August 1950). She remembers the photographer being there, and identified Mrs. Griffiths and her son looking on from the left pavement.
A lovely memory captured for posterity..
Fond memories of Summer 1970. I was sixteen, had just taken my ‘O’Levels in Bramhall, Cheshire, (back then Abersoch was known as Bramhall-by-Sea, perhaps it still is?). I had snared a Summer job as a lowly kitchen porter at The Vaynol Hotel . I already knew the village courtesy of annual family hols at The Warren – back then The Warren had old-world charm, narrow meandering sandy tracks leading to ...see more
Jack Daly and, Jock Sommerville, taught me to play badminton on a Saturday morning at St. Lo, and later on in an evening, I joined Phoenix Badminton club at St. Lo.