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ANY ONE REMEMBER THE TRANSPORT CAFE IN LONDON ROAD,ALSO THE CANNING FACTORY,A NORA ELLIS WORKED THERE FOR MANY YEARS,AND I WORKED AT THE CANNING FACTORY IN THE 50 S,ANY BODY ELSE WORK THERE?MAYBE I MIGHT REMEMBER,
My name is Sandra Palmer [nee Ricks] and I lived in 23 Harnage Road until it was demolished for redevelopment. Lived there with my parents, Florrie and Len, sister Yvonne and my nan Ada Davis.
I went to St. George's School and remember many of my teachers - Miss Masters in the nursery,Mrs Richardson [who I thought was posh because she drank coffee] , Mrs Reed, Miss Davis and Mr Church who was also the ...see more
My Gran lived in the flat above the shop in the photo, next to the garage. Her front door was down the side, and her windows (both open) looked out over shops. The bay window was her living room and her kitchen had the dual aspect windows on the corner. We were friends with the Hookhams who ran the Wavy Line store to the left of the garage.
My Great Uncle James Gray was an excellent cricketer who was in the village cricket team at the turn of the twentieth century. He fought in the first world war where he lost an eye. That didn't stop him playing cricket and still was an excellent player. I have documentary evidence at his prowess on the cricket pitch and although I didn't know him ( he died in 1943) I am very proud to be related to him.
Chris Newman
My ancestors, the Skinner family came from the village of Wakerley. The men were all Stone Masons. My Great Great Grandfather, Thomas left the village and moved to Thorney before making his home in New Barnet Herts. My Great Grandfather, Walter carried on the tradition of Stonemasonery with his brother, Fred Eldred, having their own business in East Barnet Road.
Considering they were Stone Masons, there are ...see more
My Father's parents Patrick and Catherine Donnelly, went to live in No 3 Alpine Terrace sometime in the early 1900s They were to have 6 children with my Father being the youngest. Granddad was a Miner and the family were Catholics. They helped to build the 1st St John's School and Church which both my Parents and their Siblings attended as did my Cousins and I. During the war my Dad was in the RAF and I ...see more
I passed my scholarship exams and when I was nearly 11, I started at the Beckenham County Grammar School as it was then called, in Copers Cope road. However as there were too many of us the first years classes were held at the Cricket Pavilion in Cater park?
I lived just inside the 5 mile limit from The School at Eden Park, which prevented my parents getting help with travel costs - so I was given a ...see more
from the time after 1945 regularly on Sunday afternoons the suggestion was for us to go to Kelsey park and feed the Ducks!
It was / is a large well planted park to walk around and get lost. Over the years visiting my parents, my children and my grandchildren have been taken there to feed the ducks
Pat ( nee FINN)
north seaton village used to be my holiday every year i would vist my grandmar and uncle john scott at 19 second single i used to go fishing in his boat what a fantastic time i would have i notice all the houses are not there now what a shame
In the late 1940s as a child I used to play in the park along side the hospital and remember very young cutting my foot in the paddling pool. A child who was playing with me ( we had no adults with us ) insisted on taking me to the Casualty Dept were I recall they kept asking me if I had had my tetanus injection whilst they cleaned me up. Vandalism meant someone had thrown a ...see more
I remember sitting on those steps with my Mother and sisters as we waited for the bus to take us to Dolgarrog to visit my Nain. That would have been the 1950 s. I still live in Llanrwst and have enjoyed seeing these photos.
It is clear from the post from John Howard Norfolk that he and I have some shared memories.I lived at No15 Heversham Rd,Saturday morning minors at the Regal,riding the 401 or 486 to go shopping with my mother in the Broadway.playing football on the green.I attended Pelham Road Junior school and then moved on to Graham Road Secondary Modern about 1955 till 1959 when i started work.Mr Lester was the head ...see more
Just off the High Street, between the bank and Boots - my earliest memory is moving from No 5 Woods Cottages to No 1 Woods Cottages about 1949 - aged 2! Being taken in an ambulance aged 3 due to scarlet fever and in Dartford Isolation Hospital for 6 weeks!
Nelson Road and Nelson Place is all a Morrison's now!!
Not been back to Sidcup in 40 years but look at Google Earth to see how it's changed :-)
Does anyone remember the Clarke family, they lived at 26 (not sure of spelling) Crawthru Grove Dulwich. They are my cousins, Fred, Sue and Derek , lost contact many years ago when our parents passed away.
Have many happy memories of Boxing Day tea and visiting my Auntie Kath, who was a nurse at a local hospital in a Dulwich , which was for children with disabilities. I also remember shopping in Lord Ship Lane. ...see more
I used to play bass&sing with Sammy lee band in Bellshill welfare in 1955 then nat service in57 I joined the squads playing Coatbridge town hall every wed &Airdrie on Mondays .I started the drumbeats . the dirkie brothers john lee. billie Calhoun playing newarthill every sat . john and billy later joined the crusaders . I remember the Lanarkshire crooning comp &backing lena ...see more
i worked in the co op record department from 1961 untill 1965 it was down stairs in the basement if any one remembers it please get in touch with me jenny balster
I spent the first 20 years of my life in this house.Does anyone have old photos,history,memories of it.Its on the corner of Alma road, Numeric House.I was there in the 50's.Thank you
With reference to the Polish Motor Torpedo Boat houseboat in the photo ('Hippocampus/S-8/HMTB 427'), I have done some more research using the local Electoral Registers (held in Winchester and Gosport) and found out the following:
The first owner of S-8 in June 1949, was Mr. Alan Aitcheson who bought the boat from the Admiralty after WW2 and the boat was in fact simply called, ...see more
I remember the Hot Box Sauna, around 1970. It was at Nightingale Corner in Cokes Lane. Very very nice presentation. I remember the receptionist had a picture of herself on a Raleigh Chopper bike in the Daily Mirror. One could really relax, it was all so new in those far off days. There was a Vandermolen stereo with discs that you could listen to while drinking fresh lemon juice, after a steam bath. ...see more
I lived at 27 marlow road in the 1950s remember the dairy havelock road and the greyhound track. Went to Clifton road school and then onto featherstone road have many happy memories running across the iron bridge when the trains were coming and getting home and being told off for smelling of anthracite,plenty of fields to play in them days
Memories of the Co-op Tennis Club, my friend David Parsons and I used to spend most of our summers days there in the forties. I recall an elderly (perhaps middle aged) couple who ran the club; the man had a really wicked slice serve and his wife used to serve underhand, with surprising results
Harry (Ches) Chesney
How many people on here worked at the every ready and precision tapes?
I was an evacuee from Coventry at the age 6 with my mother and 4 siblings. We had been bombed out of our house and came to live in what i think was a Manse next to the Church in Coleshill Street. (on a memory lane trip years later number 18 Coleshill street was gone and replaced by another building.) At the bottom of the road was an American base which is presumably where the soldiers who controlled the POW's ...see more
Maybe you can help. I am trying to trace the family who original donated a trophy to a now defunct Addingham Horticultural Society. The trophy has now found its way to the current Addingham Allotments and Gardens Society but without any history. The trophy is engraved Presented to Low Mills Horticultural Society by Thomas Gill of Toronto Canada 1955. I understand there is a street called Thomas Gill Road in ...see more
My dad was in the ACC at Lichfield barracks. My brothers Michael and Peter & sister Helen and myself Pamela Morley all went to this school. This was my first and best school memories I have. Memories of us dancing and moving to music in the main hall.
Photos sitting on benches in the play ground. Drawing Viking gods in the porta classroom, and going to tea at my teachers cottage and loving her roses in her cottage garden. But most of all I miss my friends Heather Kendrick & Amanda Lee.
My Mother Joyce Ladbury was evacuated to South Petherton at the beginning of WW2 aged 9 years. She stayed with a few families but most of all loved the Gaylard family. Mrs Gaylard and twin daughters Gwen and Cis ( or Sis) not sure of spelling.My Mum loved going out with the adult daughters to deliver the mail as I think that one was the Post Mistress or had a responsibility for the Mail during the war. ...see more
Hi everyone.
My mum is Salford born and bred .Her name was LILIAN BOND born in 1947. She lived at 21 Lillah Street,next to the `corner`shop at 23, which was previously owned by her grandad JOSEPH BURTON in the 1920s.
Mum went to a primary school on Liverpool Road but cant remember the name of it and then went to Clarendon Secondary Modern.Her best friend in ...see more
This is really a wish for a memory. My mother's mother's name was Lily Sargeant. She lived in the house called Bryneithin just to the east of Abergwili. My mother, Mary Eileen, who was born on 28 January 1923 in Carmarthen, was raised by her grandmother until her grandmother died. My mother was then raised by her guardian, a Mrs Hoare. In about 1939 my mother moved to 311 Gower Road Sketty (Upper Killay) Swansea SA2 7HQ ...see more
Does anybody remember a Chapel over a shop on Eccles New Road, Weaste inn the 60's and 70's? I believe there was also a children's club of some sort there.
My name is Dennis Lewis; I am the boy sitting on the horse. I was six or seven years old. My brother, Jeff, is the boy playing in the background. We played in the park almost every day during the summer.
I remember the photographer asking me to sit on the horse and make it swing so that he could take the photograph. How wonderful to it see it for the first time almost sixty years later!
I remember them filming Z-Cars along Queensway.
First place to buy Ben Sherman Shirts and Levi's the in place late sixty's early 70's
Although I was not born in Gilsland I have many happy memories of childhood holidays. I was born in Millfield part of Newburn. From the age of 7 years, this was 1949, during the summer holidays my gran would put me on the bus at Throckley and she would tell the conductor to put me off at the Samson inn at Gilsland. From there I would walk up to Biddlestone farm which was run by Charley Wilson, my aunty was his ...see more
I would walk up South road down the duel carriageway and up Horndean hill to our little school . In the village we past a shop that I remember smelt of paraffin. It was ran by Bossy Catchlove you name it she had it. I loved my childhood in South road. My mum was a hare dresser she did John Merle's mums hare , and also one of our teacher Mr Bushel, mum did his wife's hare to
In the late 1800's my Grandmother's sister, Minnie came from Bristol to work at Goytre House. She was soon followed by another sister Hannah and my grandmother Annie both of whom worked at Maesyberrin, the doctor's house in Goytre village. Both Hannah and Annie married and lived in Goytre until they died. Annie's husband William was the local milkman and the couple moved into Coalbrook Cottage only moving as their ...see more
My Great-grandmother was the landlord of this pub in the 1950s and 60s. Her name was Eva Amy Larkin, and she ran this pub as a widow. With my great grandfather she had managed Gunter's tea room in Park Lane during the war, then the Red Lion pub in Hounslow. When Frank Larkin died, she came to Pinner where my Grandad Ron, Eva's daughter Pam's husband, worked part-time to help out. My mum spent many happy school holidays in ...see more
I was keep moving to three schools because I was getting bullied and having nightmares, and my parents were protecting me from bad people.
when I was nine years old, I went to the biggest shop and it was called IKEA and I was getting bored.
when I was ten years old, I was in primary six in grange primary school in bo'ness. my teacher's name is Mrs telfer and she was nice and my drama teacher was mean to me and ...see more
I used to live in Drayton Road, Harlesden. I lived next door to the police flats where I used to play with my friends. I am looking for Carol Foster who used to live in the police flats. Had a very enjoyable childhood. I went to Pound Lane school, then I worked at British Railway in Paddington, and worked with a girl called Megan Davis and Ruth Jarrott, and would love to find them also. If anyone can help me in my search, that would be great, thank you.
When I was very young, we lived in Givenchy House (now court) Aigburth Road, we moved there from 13 Auburn Road Liverpool. I remember the flat seemed so big and going to the shops was an adventure. There was the hard ware shop were you bought malt vinegar , you took your own bottle and the shopkeeper filled the bottle or jug from great big barrels of vinegar. The smell!!! I can still smell it now just thinking ...see more
Hello all, I lived at 38 York road just of the Great west road, I loved growing up in Brentford and would love to move back, but I am having problems in finding old friends. I am trying to find someone who I miss a lot so if anyone can help me I am looking to find anyone who lived of Boston Manor road at the Mall, they are flats near the high street and are still standing, If I can find anyone who lived there ...see more
I owned Barr Farm for twelve years, and poured my heart and soul into that building, the views from our living room out across the canal to the Campsie Fells was beautiful. The Antonine wall ran through my garden, once an Italian couple walking up the hill asked me if I could tell them where the wall was !, I think they thought it was still visible, I said 'walk no further', I will show you it....
Twechar was a brilliant ...see more
I owned a terrace house in wharf road in the 1970"s.
Many properties have been demolished.On the corner of Balmoral Road is now a supermarket also there is a huge furniture shop where Tolleys garage once was
A parade of shops are on the opposite side of the road where the canal is.
It still remains a lovely village,although some would now call it a mini town.
Remember Stammers the grocers. ? Also what was the name of the engine reborers on the corner of Kynaston Rd? Harvey & Cleverley butchers. (my mum bought rabbits there!)
I was evacuated from London in 1943-44 to my aunt Dorithy and lived at The Royds Clayton West
I went to the Skelmanthorpe Modern School.
I had a number of cousins who s names escape me ,it would be nice to know what happened to them.
I have very pleasant memories of my time there.
I was taken into care when i was only two years old in 1951 and came to Wheatley to live in a childrens home for a while it was called Morland house. The only memory i have is having some trouble in a swimming pool and someone fishing me out with some kind of net
I was born in widnes in 1949, my dad taught at St Maries so we all went there to school. My best friend for a long time was Valerie Casey, she lived on Bancroft Rd and we spent a lot of time playing on the 'bongs'!
Val seems to have disappeared from sight, no one at the Friends reunited knows where she is, we were in touch through Broughton Hall til we both left then I think she went to Manchester ...see more
I returned to Eskdale this weekend after 60 years. Yes I was there in the very early years and the experience is still fresh (in some things today ) today. It was not a planned visit but, the welcome I got made me feel warm inside. The staff were lovely, the young lady on reception ( from Egremont )
the trainers I spoke to, and of course Doug who spent some time with me and introduced me to 'The Map Room '. ...see more
We stayed here in the mid 1960s with our large family,6 of us, housed in one room (from my father's memory). Our cousins, Aunt and grandmother stayed in another room, 5 in all. I can remember holiday camp style entertainments and the seven of us cousins (up to the age of 9 or 10) being garbed in green crepe paper for the fancy dress, as seven peas in a pod!
From a recent stay on the island I understand that ...see more
She was born in 1906 and her name was Mary Alice emery and she lived at 34 Stanley street.she eventualy moved to London where I was born in 1993. She often told the tale of a lizzey butterworth who used to go to all the funerals for a good feed.
My Nan, Jean, and late Grandfather Ron, owned this shop at 103 Banks Road, until around 1984/5. Nana has many fond memories of the area and her customers spanning quite a few years! As grandchildren, we used to have many an adventure in the 3 storey home, the extremely large garage to the rear and on trips over the sands to Hilbre via the chip n putt.
Jubilee park for ice cream or fishing for tiddlers in Ashton Park are also recalled.
My Nan sends her regards to all who recall her.
My Mum, Marilyn, was brought up in Cleator Moor, mostly by her Grandma, Nelly Ward. She had a sister called Kathy; their father was a GI! Wondered if anyone remembered Nelly, apparently she was a great character.
We, the Brown Family from Wembley Middlesex spent two wonderful holidays with Mrs Robbins on the front at Instow. Mrs Robbins had been our neighbour at Lonsdale Avenue Wembley before returning to her native Devon with her husband, son Dougie and daughter Beryl to run a guest house. Our first visit was literally the day after the Great Flood in 1952 and furniture was routinely washed up on the beach ...see more
My name is Ivan Richardson. I was born into the Original Mill Cottage in Mill Lane. My Father worked for Norman Bennett. When he left the Farm to go to Kiveton Wire Works. We had to get out of the Tied Cottage. We moved to Eastwood Avenue. I have many wonderful memories of North Anston.I attended the School down at the bottom of the Village near to the Railway Line.Sadly we left Anston in 1960,when I was 6. I have always had very fond memories of that place.
Hi there, I am trying to trace the daughter of William & Ethel King who lived in Haynes Road, Hornchurch for many years. Ethel passed away in 2004 at the great age of 93 so I am hoping that someone may be able to help?
My Great Uncle & Godfather, Jimmy King, is William's half brother and he has not seen Linda since his wedding in 1948. Uncle Jim is now 87 years old and would very much like to ...see more
Apex corner was our local shopping area. I lived close to it from 1941-1956. The picture well represents it over that period. It barely changed in 15 years. The shops shown in the photograph remained the same. On the corner over the roundabout they were roughly in order: Tesco's, Boots the Chemist, the Apex off licence, Salisbury, Meyers the greengrocer, Sylvester's the news agent and just out of view the Apex cafe, Vincent's Hardware and Norman Davis electrical and toys.
Kay and I lived in Old Moat Drive for 35 years, married at St Lawrence Church our daughter christened there She went to St Lawrence school lots of good memories of the area,
Paul Bennett
I have many strong memories of Lots Road in the late 1940s early 50s. The power station loomed over the streets. Bomb sites and the row of shops in King's Road, Brightmans Bakery and Rollo the greengrocer. I went to Ashburnham School. The head teacher was Miss A.K.Nobbs.
In Lots Road were many families packed into those run-down terraced houses. People still asked you to run to Watson's the corner shop, for ...see more
I was there frim 1982 to 1990 the longset serving child and youngest in that decade Glenn Campbell at first but my mum got remarried so changed my name to Glenn Hughff AKA "Huffy" . in the last days of been at school us leavers all two by two went to the coach house to the toilets at that time in the right hand of the building throw the small double doors and went up Into the attic where we all singed are names on the walls , boarded floor , dose anyone remember doing this too ????
I remember a narrow brook in Bull Lane running along the bottom of the houses left hand side walking from the high street. My schoolfriend and I used to jump over it and try to push each other in. I sometimes think this is something I dreamed up, but I can still see it.
I recall walking through the gardens of Grove Road, bungalows all new without any fencing, going up to the Grove Road shops. Buying Vinegar ...see more
I first came into Whitnash in 1962 I had a pal who lived in South Terrace with his Nan his name was David Lloyd Smith, in those days Whitnash was still a small village, we both had motorbikes just old two strokes that were always breaking down, we used to meet at the Plough Pub on the bend and sit round the back in a covered area we also met by the church in the old wooden building which was a youth club on a ...see more
This is the bio on my Blog,Cholsey Wildlife.
I have always had a passion for wildlife and the environment; I have been birding now for quite a few years. I moved from Chelsea (London) to Cholsey (then Berkshire now Oxfordshire) when I was 9 years old.
My main influence was my old Cholsey school headmaster W.D. (Bill) Campbell. He fostered my interest in wildlife. I have travelled widely on a global scale (ex ...see more
Each year, the excitement mounted as summer drew near. Dad would drag out the large wicker hamper and Mum would start to fill it with clothes, wellies and tins of food from Galbraiths or the Co-op. By school's end, the carriers would have come to cart the hamper down the tenement stairs and on to its journey. We'd be dressed in our best for travelling and then off to Central Station to catch the steam train ...see more
I was born in Box and can remember playing football against Colerne
in the late 50s what a slog up road hill , They always won because we were to tired,
But downhill all the way back. anyone else remember ?
I have lived in Australia for the past 33 years, only returning to the UK a couple of times. And because the family have moved I have never had the opportunity to return to my original stomping ground, until last May, when my brother Chris and I went on a nostalgia tour.
I never liked the area. Referring to Warrington as "God's own private toilet." However, I was absolutely taken aback when we ...see more
Southend-on-Sea in the 50’s
At the housing estate in Mitcham where we lived they had a tenants association. Every Friday night, two of the committee would go round to the Elm Court flats in Mitcham, where we lived, to collect one or two shillings. This money was for an outing that the committee organized, mainly in winter, so that people could have an evening out at least once a year. There were ...see more
My maternal Gt, Grandparents were Joseph and Eliza- Jane Hufton. The house was designed and built by Joseph's brother Austen(they are all buried at the top righthand corner of the 'new' cemetery on Kingsway). as it was the first house to be built it was named Avenue House. Before they moved in it was occupied by Joseph's parents, William and Sarah Hufton.joseph's chidren were Redvers Doris and my ...see more
I attended Whitgift Middle school from 1948 to 1954. On arrival at school on my bicycle each day I saw the school as shown in this photograph
my dad fred hunter was the 1st cemetery suprintendant of horden cemetery ,my mam eva was a sherburn hill lass until marrying my dad and moving into the cemetery house ,I can recall my mam saying as we looked out of the house window ,youre dad barrowed every lot of top soil by hand to make this area he planted every tree by hand he worked hard ,day in day out .i have 2 brothers john and david then i came along .we ...see more
I was born in West Middx Hospital in July 1942 and lived in Vicarage Farm Rd from then until about 1960. Went to Springwell Infants then onto Heston Junior School. Failed the 11+ so went to Heston Secondary Modern.Great teachers Mr Songi (woodwork)Mr Pusey (metalwork) Mr Parsons,Mr Thron and Mr Thomas the Headmaster. The summer before going to HSM I found my love of cricket in Heston Park.A lad named Jimmy Warman ...see more
I moved from Leeds to Garstang in 1958 and went to Garstang Secondary Modern School (now Garstang Academy). we lived on a static caravan park behind what was a very large transport cafe called The Mayfield (now The Crofters Hotel). My parents both worked at the transport cafe. All I remember really is that the transport cafe manageress was called Mrs Lister and I went to school with her daughter but I ...see more
Born in Dunfermline 1951, initially lived in Cowdenbeath @ Terris Place wi parents / grandparents until 4/5. Moved to Union St and lived there until 1971 wi parents, 2 brothers, 2 sisters. When I married I moved to Dunfermline then Crossford. Moved South to England in 1980, South Yorkshire, 1985 Derbyshire, 2004 Nottinghamshire where I currently reside.
Return to Cowdenbeath regularly to watch the ...see more
When Dad had the motorbike and sidecar it was okay for day trips, but when we went for the fortnight summer holiday the bike could not carry us and the suitcases, so we had to go by other means. To get to Bournemouth we had to get the local bus to, I think, Paddington Station, then the train to Bournemouth. Apparently my Dad had an Aunt and Uncle who had a Bed and Breakfast lodging house. We were picked ...see more
My daughter and I are doing a Family Tree.
We are looking for relatives of Hamish, Lydia MacDonald and son Alan Hamish MacDonald who also at times lived in Australia.
We are also looking for information on George MacDonald, my great-grandfather, a one time alderman who passed away while visiting my grandfather Gordon and my grandmother Helen Mabel in ...see more
Hi All,
I am trying to find out more information about my grandparent's who had a couple of shops in Harrogate, They are long passed now, and I myself am in the US.
I am hoping from my very vague description of childhood memories, someone may recall the stops or at least a possible street name, which would give me a starting point!
My grandparents owned 2 ...see more
We lived at 92 townsend road with my five brothers and sisters we all attended Beaconsfield school in the late 60s then we all went to Featherstone secondary school in the early 70s so if anyone remembers the parmar family , arvind, parveen, sushil, please contact at xrani@hotmail.co.uk
I in the canal photo that big barge was my grandads he used to deliver coal up and down the canal he was called Hubbert Barrass can anyone help me find more photos of this and also name of his barge please
Pictured to the right of you Galleon Swimming pool photo and directly opposite was the Burgh Heath Corn Stores. It was sighted on the old Bake House and in the back room were several old brick ovens. I bought all my horse food from there and they also sold guinee pigs, white mice, rabbits and goldfish as well as animal feed. On Thursdays they had a special delivery of home made sausages which were ...see more
CAMBER SANDS
When we first went to Camber Sands it was on my father’s motorbike and sidecar, it must have been in the middle fifties. It was a surprise for us as we had never been there before. When we arrived my Dad parked the bike on a knobbly hillside covered in grass and sand. We asked where the beach was and he told us to go up the hill and we would see it. Well, you can imagine our surprises ...see more
My Grandad Dick Skan owned the shop next to the bank. It was a tobacconist / sweet shop and you can just see the sign on the left hand side of the photo. I have memories of sitting on a high wooden stool eating toffees when visiting my grandparents, probably in the late 1960s /1970s.
I think this must be the original building of the King's Head at 22 London Street. The sign to the right says "R.G. Cable Carpenter". Ralph G Cable was a carpenter and wheelwright at 20 London Street in the 1901 census. Charles Herbert was then victualler at the King's Head. The sign on the pub advertises Nutley's Old Chantry Ales. William Nutley was a brewer in Chantry Street.
