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I was born the third of four children in Breaston. Our Christmas's were spent with my Mum's sister's family consisting of Aunty, Uncle/god father and a male cousin 7 months younger than me who I mercilessly tormented throughout our childhood. It was Christmas day around 1970 and unusually, snow lay on the ground, the noise levels from our excitement in the house must have been very loud, Mum and Aunty ...see more
Born railway terrace tottenham n 17 next to railway bridge in white hart lane family cant and johnson went to st frances de sales then onto risley avenue would love to hear from anyone remembering me very hard ,but great times rose andrews thanx
Born railway terrace tottenham n 17 next to railway bridge in white hart lane family cant and johnson went to st frances de sales then onto risley avenue would love to hear from anyone remembering me very hard ,but great times rose andrews thanx
Hi, I worked on a farming scheme in1953 when I was 15, we lived in a wooden built hostel just down from the railway station as you came out and turned right, you turned right again and it was set back from the road. I would love to find out where it was, and possibly the farm too, I've looked on maps, but no luck. Can you help? Thanks, Tom Middle.
The houses on the right hand side were not demolished when the new buildings were put up. They still exist and have recently been renovated.
Not so much a memory as a request! My great-grandfather William Saward was Station Master at Audley End for 38 years, between 1857 and 1895. He lived in the Station House, where my grandfather Bertram was born and became a clerk at the Station before moving to London. For years I have been searching, writing and hoping for a photo of William, without success. There must be one out there somewhere. Can anyone help please!
David Saward (now resident in Devon)
I remember living in george st west on the new rows
I can remembet the shops there were lots ; the co-op walter wilsons where my aunt worked there was a tv shop post office; sparks shop tben another I cant remember the name then bottom papershop shops on opposite side of road demolished years ago, meadow dairy a cobblers ; fruit shop ; sweet shop spar , 2 butchers bakers which was called woods , barbers called burns, ...see more
Not so much a memory, but I'm researching my family tree and my family, the Patmans, lived in Nene Terrace at Vine House Farm. My great grandfather is Arthur George, born in 1899 and died 1964, he was married to Vivian Paul and they had children Fred (Born as John Frederick), Jean, Elizabeth (my nan), George and Violet. Would love to hear from anyone who remembers this family and if anyone has any stories regarding them.
My name is Mike Stoker
I lived in Collingham for about 7 years from 1959 to 1966. I was born in Jimmies in Leeds where we lived for 3 years before moving to Kirk deighton for about 1 year. I went to Collingham school on school lane for 6 years from 1959 to 1965 and then to secondary school in Wetherby for 1 year which included a short stay at the new Wetherby secondary school before leaving Collingham kicking and ...see more
I LIVED IN Scotland Bridge Road, New Haw, just down the road from West Byfleet. I attended WB primary school and then briefly the secondary school before I went to Woking Grammar.
These were very happy days. I worked from the age of 11 at Dix and Normans butchers in Station approach where I earned a shilling for wrapping the meat and then graduated to gutting chickens! Those were the days when you took ...see more
Used to go to The Trade, Top Rank, Clockhouse, New Penny & Pickwick club in the 60's and early 70's before I left blighty to go to NZ and Oz. Wound up in Perth, Western Australia and am still there. Knocked about with a guy called Barry Machin who was better known as Harry Munchkins before he took off to Torquay. Harry now lives in Melbourne in Oz and I've caught up with him a few times. Read on another site ...see more
I remember when I started my first job as a junior in the Westminster Bank in the background in 1964 -I stayed for just over 2 years and was then moved to Warminster branch and living in digs for the first time!
I also remember the street being empty like this but only on a Sunday-you would be lucky to ever get this scene again with no cars!
We lived in Erw Terrace and our garden overlooked Bryn Terrace
Elizabeth Jackson(nee Dunn Davies)
I remember a time ...I think 1976,me and my friend visited Kenilworthto meet a beautiful oriental girl i met in my home town of Cleveleys,she was on holiday,I'll never forget walking down Cleveleys promenade in an electrical storm and her hair was standing on end....we made it to Kenilworth but got that drunk on the train that the day was a blur,I cant remember her name but she lived in a chinese takeaway....and get this I remember her phone no....how bizzare 0926 56101.....happy days
I used to live near that gas tank and sometimes you could smell the gas. Also across the road, there was "something dangerous" which the local residents wanted removing,I think it was a fire or explosive hazard of some kind.
Glyn,Llandudno
Ann Marie, my Dad was Jimmie, your Nan`s Brother. I live at 6 Saughton Grove, Murrayfield, Edinburgh EH12 5SW ♥
Love Jean.
P S Your Nan was my Godmother.
My father & mother Harold and Lily Plympton standing on the corner of Cheap Street and Long Street. My father worked for Lemons the tailors, following in the footsteps of my grandfather Charles Robert Plympton who lived in Wootton Grove. In 1929 my father opened his own tailors shop in Long Street then in 1935 moved the shop to Hound Street which ran until 1943 when ...see more
I left the Royal Navy in late 1971 and worked in Zermatt Switzerland for a short time when I applied and got my first head chef position in England I was 21 yrs old, The owners then were MR & Mrs Mullins, Mrs Peggy Mullins was an author, It was a lovely old world hotel and they even filed part of an episode to the TV series The persuaders there, the staff were a mixed but lovely bunch, and ...see more
my time at this school was good.I arrived from Scotland in march 1957 ,I went to Mr Dunn's class.I met Shirley Kent and we got on great .I think it was my Scottish accent that did it.there was a lad called miles also john hugger both lived at rotherfield john became a policeman I think.in easter 1958 I started work as a trainee projectionist with (I think)a john cottham.I would love to hear from Shirley Kent .must be 71-72 now.cinema called the regent.
I was born in hillingdon hospital in 1956 and from the early nineteen sixties to nineteen ninety five we lived first long readings lane and then we moved to Doddsfield road things I remember most going to slough Irish society in wexham
And dancing to the major Irish showbands like big tom lary Cunningham Johnny mcavoy and meeting my friends like noel Moore the Donnelly family tom and ...see more
Evans the grocer previously mentioned was my grandfather, William Henry Evans who had a grocery shop at 50 Mikado St Penygraig.
He delivered groceries all over Penygraig with the horse and cart.
I can remember in the late 50's riding on the cart with him.
He had several horses over the years but the one I remember was "Dandy" who knew all the customers houses and would stop outside without any instructions.
Late 1940s I used to visit with my mother the Dingle cafe. I remember the 2 paths down from themain road.The first one took you down into the village but the 2ndone brought you out into a large lawn covered area wher ther was a white coloured c ottage where we could buy refreshments served by a young lady dressed in the old style of a waitress. I have never been able to find anything about this part of Lymm but I am sure I didn't dream it
my friend and I went to sherry a lot and then I work there not for long the little old man that owen it was a well not a very nice. we uses to go to comos as well.
I remember driving out to The Alpine for tea from North West London. It was an outing purely for Tea and Scones and it seemed like a long journey from NW10 to Bushey. Was in the 60's not as early as 1955!
I was born in Park Royal hospital in Feb 1952 then taken home to 70 Craven Park Road spitting distance from Harlesden police station. Just across the road from our family doctor, (Dr Curtis) not much bedside manor, but a great doctor. After 3 years we moved in with my mothers mother in 18 Mead Plat, just off the North Circular Road, this is where my childhood started. There were already some boys ...see more
In the 50/60s' my Grandparents used to own The Fox and Hounds Pub in Carlton. Although it's no longer there. I spent many a day, as a child there, whilst my parents helped out in the pub.
I remember the Gliders catapulting off the bank and the old bomb craters, full to the brim of water.
I even remember the time when a Bull was tethered by the nose on the green outside The Blackwell Ox ...see more
My name was Gill Evans at that time and lived at 42 Lampton Rd. I had 4 brothers and sister, Jean.
See that Rita Pilbrow has written her memories......her sister, Claudette, was friend of mine and I remember her family well. Lots of memories of good times with Claudette. Also remember Doreen Matthews and family and Terry Davis in Bulstrode Ave. Jones family also living in same road.
What happened to the ...see more
I remember we used to walk from my grandma's house in Nottingham Road opposite the Fire Station down through the park, cut through to Burton Street and about halfway up Burton Hill. I was never quite sure why we went there - probably some place my grandmother had stayed or someone she used to know. She said it was exactly a mile, but I only remember it was a very long way on my seven-year-old little legs.
My father's mother's family (Lee or Lea) lived in a cottage called Brook House, near Broadlands Farm. We have a picture of Brook House painted in about 1910, in which it seems as if the cottage may have been part of the original 'Brook House' (a much grander building), and was perhaps actually a stable block or coach house belonging to the original 'big house'.
My great-grandfather worked for Powick Asylum ...see more
Looking for any memories anyone might have of Jack Lane's store in Luton which sold children's wear. It was a family run store. Jack's wife was Bessie and their daughters, Eunice and Sheila, used to work in the store as well. Would love to hear from anyone having any memories of my grandparents. I was born in Luton in 1959 and moved in 1962 to New York. Looking to recapture the past. Thanks, Haydn. (hbrill@brillassociates.com).
When I was about 18months old, my mum got ill after having my sister. I was taken to live with my Great Grandparents in Thurcroft. Mr & Mrs Quinn. These are the some of the best memories of my life. My Great Grandmother was a very caring & loving Nan & my Great Grandfather looked after the local church,which had a stage,which I loved to perform my own song & Dance things. Which ...see more
I lived at the bottom of Egham Hill in in 1960. I went to Egham Manor School. I was only there for 3 years, then we moved to Dover.
Betty and Alec Billington were my mum and uncle who went to the village school in the 1920's and 1930's. My grandad was the blacksmith
I'm trying to locate information about the Polish Camp in Hainault Road that was there after the war where Polish servicemen stayed. Does anyone have any memories of this or any information? Any memories of the Polish and Irish communities in the Ilford area during the late '40s early '50s? I am trying to gather information for my family tree. My birth parents would have come from these communities in Ilford.
hey just wondering if anyone from stell maris remembers my mum her name was anne Mitchell she attended the school n her younger days she went on to marry my father Harold murthwaite they lived in borrowdale ave for any years until my mum passed away 3 years ago x
In the late fifties and early sixties myself and my family lived just outside Guildford (where I was born in 1951) and my mother used to take me after school on shopping trips to Guildford High Street and into Harveys as it was then, as she knew the fashion buyer there. As a treat we would go up to the wonderful roof garden and whilst mum had tea I played, running backwards and forwards over the stepping stones ...see more
does anyone remembered united dairies / unigate in anyards road in 1962 to 1964 a freind use to work there called nigel but can not remember his second name
My maternal grandfather Ernest Cording was the private secretary to Mr Augustus Brandt, of Bletchingley Castle, before WWII at William Brandt's London offices and was asked to move from Upminster in Essex to live at Hill Cottage or The Dower House on Castle Hill in late 1939 when key employees were "evacuated" to Bletchingley. Hill Cottage was often used as accommodation for visiting staff my ...see more
Born in 1947 before the NHS mum was transported to Hitchen to have me (hospitals full in London or too expensive?). I lived in half of a two-up two-down. We had the downstairs. My younger twin sisters and I shared a bed whilst mum & dad slept on the put-u-up. Nanny was across the road above her sister's sweet shop and our other nan around the corner at Whitby House. I had an idealic first 10 years of life until the ...see more
I lived on Littleheath Road (No 32) until 1976 when we moved to Purley when I was 8. Both my brother (Nick Storey) and I went to Selsdon Primary/Jnr Schools. Our house backed on to Selsdon Woods and I remember there was a flag pole in the middle of the back garden. Names I remember form back then, Peter Stringer, The Jilks family who moved to Burwash in Sussex & bought a farm, the Bliss family Frank & Anne?? and ...see more
The only connection is a lot of my family come from Salford .One of my ancesters was a river pilot.Quite a lot of them worked on the railways in the 1890s the family name was Rowlands My grandfathers name was John he was married to Frances Eatherington. When I was young my Great Aunt Mary used to brinng me to Salford? And some people always gave me a box of fireworks to take home with us . Ipresume the place was railwaystreet salford,it would of been in the 1950s.
We called this "Ferry Lane",though the old chain ferry across the river Ouse formerly operated by Mr Atkinson was long gone even in 1955. The sailing Dinghys were left there by members of the Yorkshire Ouse Sailing Club and you can just see the end of their clubhouse; the tall building, bottom left. Commander Palmes started the club but hardly any locals were members. Us kids spent many happy hours down there fishing. One thing ...see more
I grew up in the house at the end of the street which was called Cherry Cottage.I would be about 3 or 4 when the picture was taken. My mum had the large Yew tree on the right of the house front sawn down as it made the house dark. My dad's wooden grocers shop cum Post Office (which resembled a scout hut) was tucked in the front garden of the last house on the bottom right. Wisteria cottage. So he hadn't got far to walk ...see more
In the Fifties, my brothers and I used to swim in the 'side pools' that lie just behind the sea wall. We used to go down the access road at Vange Corner across the railway line to Johnson's Wood yard, past the woodyard and onto the marshes. There were a number of pools there - all of them had at least a foot of black mud on the bottom, which were also used by the cows (for a variety of purposes). They were ...see more
hi everyone we were at monksbarn in the 60s there was pam, linda,ivy,joy,jimmy.
we had to put our best clothes on for church sundays, then it was willies and coat to play out in the garden ,there was a small shelter we called a den.
the scout came at christamas for the day.
we had a sweet tin in the cupboard in the hall.
the school was in the grounds.
My Grandmother already lived in St Osyth, so from 1927 to 1939 we always had two weeks vacation at St Osyth. Coming from London this was paradise. Water by the bucket from the hydrant (you had your own key for this). No electricity, all oil lamps and cooking by the coal stove.
Mr Brett provided the oil, and th milk at different times with his horse and trap. The Red Lion, the Blacksmith and the ...see more
I was always trying to run away from this horrible school, and as a result I was caned in front of everyone. Nearly all the nuns were awful and in some instances were abusive and I hated it there.
Betty Brooks
My nan Rule lived in the house next to bomb site in Roydon. Street. Also in Southolme Was my great grand mother, Annie hemp. And my other grand parents the Fosters.
Alan foster.
My mum was a patient in Highwoods Hospital when it was used as a TB Sanatorium in the 1940s-1950s. Her name was Shirley Fennell and she was there at the age of 4/5 for around 18 months.
I've always been fascinated about my mum's time there and I am currently researching more about the home for a novel. I would love to hear from anyone willing to share their memories of Highwoods ...see more
My name was Martin loible now Martin burgess like went to decors hated tanner but loved miss booked marbles tin.tin tommy the manor value Hudson best mate ken hatfield need your tel numbers as I have different phone no 07494000266 hope u r on ken memories of conkers runout book on skate sweets from Mayfair chips from Sargent bras nine pence ticket at one on Romford let me have u r numbers so I can call u miss good old days all the best martin
Hi my name is Martin burgess once lounge ken hatfiel my new mobile number is 074940002666 if u want to keep in touch also like do not have any of your.phone numbers look after yourself Martin. .lounge.
Hi I am wondering if anyone has any pictures, I am looking for pictures of hooton, the post office in childerthornton, and any other local or surrounding areas, many thanks, val
Went shopping on these streets many times in the 1960's, was happy to see when visiting in 2012 that not much has changed.
Hi All, my late grandmother Jane (Jean) Ferrier nee. Scott was born in Elderslie in 1925 at 234, Main Road along with her six brothers Hugh, Jimmy, Robert, John, Tommy and Gilbert. There parents being Robert Scott and Catherine Caldwell. The family moved to Old Road at some point in the 30s. I would love to know if anyone has any school photographs with my gran or her brothers in them. She attended Wallace Primary School from 1930-1939.
I was sent there at the age of 5 in 1951. It was run by Mrs Russel known as Auntie Barbara and her husband Uncle Max who kept pigs. I stayed there for holidays as well and when I went to boarding school at the age of 8 I returned for holidays. It was a very happy time. Granny Edwards her mother also lived there with her Pekingese, Ming who ate horsemeat bought in the town. We had lessons around the dining room table. ...see more
I will be 72 years old this year of 2015. I remember working with my uncle Syd and Auntie Chris Ryder at Bromley Hall Corn Merchants at the Godstone Road end of Timber Hill on the site which later became Fine Fares supermarket. I was about 8 or 9 years old when I first used to go round to Syds home in Holly Tree Road on The Hill and he would take me down to the Corn Stores on ...see more
I have uncovered that my grandparents lived in 3 Bridge Street, Milton Regis (unfortunately that address no longer exists). I never knew them but granddad died at that address in 1949 aged 71.
The car on the opposite side of the road to the Clearview garage was my dad's Triumph Renown. And I can't quite see what the signs say on the cafe next door but one to my house but I remember it as Molly's Cafe - a transport cafe. My neighbour Mrs Nice used to put some of the lorry drivers up in her spare bedroom when the cafe was full. I remember seeing lorries parked at the back of the cafe from my bedroom window when they stopped overnight.
I was born there and spent my early years in Campbell Road.
Back in those days there was a farm in the middle of the village, the Plas, and cows were kept in the field which were taken for milking to the old cowsheds then in Kings Road leading up to the Church!
There were many shops as one walked around the village,, in Kings Road an ironmongers and an ice cream parlor called Karrera's and a shop run by ...see more
I remember the Monument as we used to call this area (not the Square) very well. We used to catch the bus to Ogmore Grammar School as it then was, at the small car parking area to the right of the pub in the picture.
The white shop to the left of the pub was Mr Workman the butchers shop and you can see him in his white coat in the window. Immediately opposite was a small newsagents. and tobacconists then a ...see more
During the early sixties I was friendly with the daughter at the Mardy, which was the big house left of the the picture, now I believe a hotel. She knew the old couple who lived at The Court very well. They were a Mr and Mrs Evans, always known as Evans the Court, and Mrs Evans family had formerly owned the entire old house in the centre of the picture; She was very pukka, and as a young woman had been a keen horsewoman ...see more
My wife's uncle arrived in Roseneath, Scotland in September of 1942 to train for the invasion of North Africa (Operation Torch), which took place on November 8 of that year. He was with the US Army's First Infantry Division. His detailed diary tells of practicing beach landings at Roseneath and Dunoon, and street fighting at Innelan. He was very complimentary of the way the people treated him and his fellow soldiers.
I lived in Leamington Ave from 1936 - 1956 with my parents who selected the new house for its long south facing garden which backed onto Hillcross School field. During the war my mother and I were evacuated to Bucklebury in Berkshire where I started school. I then attended Hillcross School (headmaster Mr Barker) and Morden Farm Secondary School (headmaster Mr Roberts known as "Eggy"!!), leaving school in 1952. In ...see more
I was born in Seer Green over 60 years ago. It has,and always will be my first home. I have lived abroad for the past 30 years. I return to S.G. at least once a year to visit my mother and sister and enjoy the nostalgia of walking through Green Wood with the memories of all the sqirrel chasing with the old dog barking and going crazy.Lots of football "up the medda" Tearing around the village on our bikes causing ...see more
We add such a good time as kids living in the prefabs at pye green,playing in the woods making camps with the old trees and rolls of turf riped from the floor of the woods,this was in the 50s and 60s the people i can remember,where the wilkes,hickinbottoms, billings,,joneses seamores,deans,ramsdales,collins,wards,brindlys,tooths,goughs,lakein langstones wildings,joan smith,tollies harrisis,williamses,manlys,gardners,brian birch
I went to live in Llanthony village around 1970 with my husband who was brought up at The Daren Farm, and our children Lynda and Andrew. We lived in The Cornmill which is directly opposite the old post office, it was called Mill Cottage then and Met and Gertrude (Rachel) lived there. She always amused me when she answered the phone because she had a posh 'phone voice', she was a real character. Also in the village - there ...see more
Hi my name Nichola I when 't to west street infants I can remember my first day there was a lot of children crying and my mum said I will be waiting for you when you come out do you know the teachers names that worked there
Hi my name is Nichola my sister is 6years older than me she was born in 1952 and when she become 17 she just loves dancing in Crewe she used to go to the dance hall called u the junction it was a black and white building near Nantwich road their was a dance hall near Asda near the car park There's all so one along erstreet . Crewe
My grandmother Jane Durkin lived at 15 Upper Vauxhall St in the 1930s. She was married to Joseph Durkin and she lived there with two sons from her previous marriage to my grandfather Edward Murray. The sons were Edward and Michael (my father). She and Joseph also had two sons - Joseph and John. My father Joined the Manchester Regiment in 1931 but I don't know what happened to Edward. Does anybody have any knowledge of this family?
I would ike to contact the gentleman who wrote a comment about Nayland Rock Cafe in Margate. We used to visit before the war on a Sunday as my father had a car. Celia Clinker
we had a pet shop at top of cadmore lane also the garage raven coachworks on the corner of delamare rd i was a choir boy at st marys church and went to burliegh school blindmans lane great days in cheshunt cliff richards sister used to live on cadmore lane.i was a mod on my vespa gs and went to imperial hall to see groups aswellas cheshunt boys club .pat raven
my parents moved to an empty flat above the coral coal shop in bank street.my Father worked for corals coal as a delivery driver.The flat was an extra bonus i was born in Dover 1954 and when we left there we moved to a place called Bridge i cant remember anything about it but i do remember the flat in Bank Street Ashford. There was no bathroom the only toilet was at the bottom of the yard.God help you if you ...see more
The house on the right was when John Lambert lived, he owned and ran the shop on the right (it was a general store; grocer, hardware and building supplies at the rear).
My Dad, Jim Williams owned the butchers shop, the white building, second left; we lived behind the shop. I was born in the house, my twin sister was born in KIng's Lynn Hospital, 20 hours later.
Next door was Mr Williamson's, barber ...see more
Moved here in 1942 were my father worked for B.A.C underground at Hawthorn as a foreman
working on gear inspection. With the recent 70th anniversary on Tv its only now that I realise what my parents had gone through with the bombing raids, long hours working for the War effort and rationing etc. For us kids, I was 7yrs old at the time, what an adventure moving to the country and lucky to live in Corsham. We kept ...see more
Just out of the picture to the right, was the Post Office run by the lovely Miss Townsend. With hair buns on her ears, she was all smiles when you deposited money into your Post Office savings account, but if you asked for a withdrawal, you had a lecture on the national economy!
We moved to the outskirts of Southam in 1963 a small Town then. Walking to the shops where the highlighs of the day, my babies where born here delivered by the local midwife who just lived a few doors away. Pushing the pram down Abby Lane, the old prefabricated huts on the left, down over the bridge with the tiny butcher shop amongst the cottages on the right. Crossing the road by the Black Dog to go to library up the little ...see more
My Wife used to live in Cherry Tree at Num 9 Wellington Terr Cherry Tree she was looking back at the photos were her house used to be and bought back memorys.
I recently went back for a nostalgic look at the area I came from and wondered if anyone knows if and when Southall Working Men's Club changed address.
I used to go there when I was young as my dad Charlie Hayes was president there for a long time, I think in the 50's and 60's. Fred Ketley was also a name I remember - he could have been treasurer.
When I went back last month I found Clifton Road, ...see more
remember the cinema on the london road camberley loved going ther
