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The Oak Tree was amazing, and big enough to hide behind as a small child. It was a key feature throughout childhood. It was a shame when it was cut down. It is near the Berristead, the Elizabethan manor house, and was allegedly planted by a Tudor, though not sure who.
This is where I grew up. In the summer we played on the green with other children, and when the trees were a little bigger than this enjoyed climbing them. Happy Memories. The trees are a little bigger now and the green has been chopped into for parking, and there is also a children's playpark there. The houses do not look much different.
I am trying to find out about my Tickner ancestors who lived in Dorking in the 1700s. In the 1970s a cousin remembers seeing a plaque on a building in the high street that read , 'Thomas Ticker coachbuilder ' and there was a date in the 1700's he can't remember what it was exactly. This plaque referred to my ancestor.
Where has this plaque gone? Does anyone remember ...see more
I was born on the Anchor in 1941. The houses were set back from the road with rough patch of ground in front of them where Pat Collin's fair used to set up every year in the summer. From the canal bridge on the left was the pub, The Anchor (Arthur Baines), attached to a row of terraced houses (Silla and her sister, the Weberleys, Richard’s, Littlehales), then the big entry. The other side of the entry was the big house ...see more
I was born in Sandiway but during my primary and secondary school days we would go to Northwich which I remember from the late fifties and when all the old shops, such as Joe Allman's cottage and Eachus etc were all doing a good trade, Northwich has many happy memories for me. I remember the Bull Ring when the shops were all wooden fronted and the Talbot Hotel and the Methodist Chapel next door where the current ...see more
Having lived the first 25 years of my life in Widnes ,I have many happy memories of my school days there. Born in Dundalk Lane in 1940, from 1943 until 1945, I attended the Nursery,situated next to Ditton County Infants’ School, and then moved on to the Infants’ School itself, (often referred to as The Little School or Chestnut Lodge School), where I spent the next three years . The Headmistress at the ...see more
Over 70 years ago, when I was about three or four years old, my parents and I would travel from Luton to see my maternal grandmother, Kate Whymark, who was the widow of Ernest Whymark. I never met Ernest, as he fell off a ladder at Burnt House Farm and was killed in 1931, Nan ( Kate Whymark )lived at Little Hitches, in Upper Road, Little Conard. I remember there was a man called Vince who lived next ...see more
My father was the Vicar of Cradley Heath from 1961 for about 15 years and we moved there when I was about 6 months old. The vicarage is now pulled down and the church is now (or about to be demolished.) One poignant memories is the smog in the early '60s which meant I had to overnight at the nursery school on a few occasions as any sort of travel was impossible. I loved it. My mum didn't! Another is the ...see more
I was born in 1946 and attended Rokesley Infants school from 1951 to 1953. We baby boomers were too many for the main school and in 1952 my class was in a private house just up the road from the school. We had to march down for lunch. I really enjoyed my time there and was very upset when we moved to Clapham in South London. My mum worked part time at the Beales Bakery and my dad was a Policeman. ...see more
Hi if anyone has any memories of Roy Grinsted, 5 The Avenue, Arden Park, bredbury. I would love to here them. He was born 1945. His dad was Thomas Grinsted and I only remember my step grandma Mary as my gran died in the 60's i think. Unfortunately my dad passed away on the 25th of August. I would love to hear anything anyone remembers. I came across a lovely book called Bredbury, A nostalgic history this is how i came across this site. Many thanks Lisa
Lived and grew up at Sellwoods from 1953. Family also owned shop in Whitchurch Hill
Sallyann Commins
I remember a sunny day in 1940 a 10 year old London kid alone nervous scared alone except for a bunch of other kids, We had been scurried away from war torn London having gone through the Battle of Britain German airraids. The British goverment had devised a plan given the secret name "Pied Piper" the ide to protect Britain's future generation .
So here I m swinging on a garden gate leading up the path to a Red door, the ...see more
Members of my Thomas family built a number of houses in Bryn Road and sometime lived at Nos. 64, 66, 70 and 84.
I have a photo of early family members that I would like to identify if anybody knows of these, Edith, Elizabeth Blodwen, David Gomer, Gertrude, Windsor, Robert, Alban, Beryl etc. I used to spend my Summer holidays there in the 60's but I fear sadly most of my family members have gone now ?
Dave (Berkshire)
I was born and brought up in Dartford but my aunt, Nora Hall, was housekeeper to Sir Edward Bligh and they had moved to Horton Kirby in 1961 from Swanley Village. Sir Edward took a ten-year lease upon the house that was then called "Holmesdale". The front gates were upon the corner of Horton Road and Bull Hill. This house is now known as "Rashleigh Lodge". (Sir Edward and my aunt moved to Fairlight, ...see more
I was born Leslie Dennis Crutch in Grove Road 1948. My brother Ken was born 9 months after dad (Ronald Kenneth) had gone to Normandy as part of the landings - I was born 9 months after he was demobbed (funny that) to mum Winifred Blanch Crutch nee Sanders. We moved into a nissen hut in Laburnham road where my younger brother Ron was born in 1950, we moved into Elm Court when the Armfield Crescent estate was built - ...see more
Hi I was born in 1963 in Hogsthorpe and went to the primary school in Thames Street, I remember some amazing times in Hogsthorpe helping my Mum and Dad in the fish and chip shop rumbling the potato's with Ted Hall and going out with my dad delivering fresh fish in the old Bedford van. I went to school with Simon Bradley, Jackie Stow, Sally Pears, Joyce Pinder and Candy Altese and I have ...see more
my granny and grandad used to live in the old school house my grandad was a teacher there his name was hugh williams
I remember that postage stamp machine outside the post office. If you put a halfpenny in the penny slot & flicked it in forcefully you obtained a penny stamp.
My mother made me & a friend, who shall remain nameless, return all the stamps back to the office. We got a rollicking from the postmaster, who said it would take him ages to sell these stamps. However he didn't return our halfpennies!! Karma x2!
I grew up in Aylesbury, Barnsbury Avenue, Hardy Close and 73 Westmoreland Avenue. I really miss those days. I went to Broughton Infant and Broughton Junior School and then the Grange Secondary School. I emigrated to the U.S. in 1974 when I was 13 years old. I was a Brownie and a Girl Guide. I rode my bike there from Westmoreland Avenue every week. My parents have passed away and I really miss England too ...see more
My family was one of those temporarily housed in one of the old Nisan huts used by those stationed there during WW2. My mother was Doreen and my adoptive father Ivan Nobbs. In October 1953, we were joined by my brother, Stephen.
I still have quite vivid memories of our time there before moving to Easthills Road, Costessey in 1953/54.
A name that comes to mind is George 'Jimmy ' Gowler who I haven't seen for many years, ...see more
I note that a couple of people have mentioned St Joseph's Convent School. Having attended that school from 1960 to 1966, I can confirm that the location was opposite Hoadley's and the building did indeed curve alongside the pavement. I believe it had originally been a coaching inn, which would make sense because the lavatories were housed in old converted stables on the right as you entered through the ...see more
My mother was in the WAAFs during WWII. She met my father (an American G.I.) at a dance in Henley. They married in 1944 and after the war, my mother traveled to the United States as a war bride. I was born in Nebraska in April, 1948. In 1951, my mother was aching to visit her parents in England. My father managed to raise enough money for my mother, my sister and I to sail to England in the Spring of 1951. I ...see more
I n 1965 my parents retired to Saltash and my father built himself a small boat. As it was moored off the end of the garden. He looked around for a dingy to get to and fro and eventually found one in Gunnislake. Guess who got the task of rowing it down to Saltash. What a journey for a towney that had hardly been in a boat before. Fortunately the dingy was small and light [fibre glass] and the weather good also ...see more
I was born in 1949 and entered Hart Hill School in 1954.
Those were the times when 5 year olds were taken to school by their Mums for about one week into the new term! There were so many kiddies in the surrounding area of Abbotswood Road and Bloomfield Ave that nobody walked home alone!
I entered the class of Mrs. King and then into Miss.Bunting for my second year.
The Junior side of the school started with Miss ...see more
My mother lived as a young girl with my grandparents at 34 grant road in the 1930s I believe it was a sweet shop at that time. On google maps it looks as though that number no longer exists such a shame.
I have so enjoyed reading all the memories of Woodley and Bredbury. I lived on George Lane from 1939 to 1964, and went to St Mark's School in Bredbury. My Dad, Jack Hallsworth, worked at Livingstone's butchers shop, and was well known in the area because he had been in charge of the local air-raid wardens during the war, he had had leading roles in many pantomimes at St Marks and he had ...see more
My grandfather's brother Albert Charles Greenfield was an omnibus driver in 1907 who married at The Church of the Ascension. His family lived in Birley Street near Clapham Junction. His wife Elizabeth Penfold's family lived in Battersea High street at no 130a. This photo shows the haphazard road use in Battersea at that time and perhaps the type of Bus that he drove?
I was at St Josephs from 1952 until 1959, my name was Kathleen Mccoy i had 2 sisters with me Pauline Battles and Sheelagh Mccoy. I remember some names ,Theresa Thompson, Dorothy Wray , Roselyn Gallagher, Kathleen and Margaret Riley, to name a few. I was one of the youngest at that time in the home. It would be nice to know if anyone else was there with us.
To find the signal that was part of the Bulford station it is at the junction of Newmans way and the A3028
I lived in the house called Abbotsford in about 1934 which to this day, stands by the side of the America Woods.
Once a year, the scouts would camp in the field at the back of the house.
I spent many happy times playing in those woods, especially with my two brothers before they joined the army.
They knocked nails into the trunk of the tree to enable us to climb up and we also carved out names into the trunk.( I wonder ...see more
I lived in Malvern Road and remember the winter of '47 when we had six weeks of snow and wonderful tobogganing on the slopes. My dad was the manager of Park&Brown Jeffery Street and a skilled wood man who was able to build me an excellent toboggan with steel runners. Incidentally in '37 my cousin Sir Derek Barton was studying Chemistry at Gilligham Tech, Gardner St and spent some lunch hours with his sandwiches in his car ...see more
Yes I slipped a disc aged 11 years old on that shared Sports field whilst doing high-jump! No crash mats in those days.
We had to “ rest” on a rug, in the school hall/gym!
I usually went home fro lunch.
Mrs Purnell was my favourite teacher.
Mrs Braid our needlework teacher, got cross with me cos I sewed with my left hand.
I went to Oak End School from 1956
My favourite lesson was art, we painted on sugar paper laid out on newspaper on the floor, our paint pallets were old jam jar lids.
Anyone remember Miss Eldridge the music teacher. She wore the most amazing felt skirts with footprints appliqué around the hem.
Fish on Friday with red sauce and white sauce.
The huge tree with a rope on it, you had to climb up into the tree ...see more
My paternal grandmother, named in title, was born & lived in Bank Street in 1882, and so she would have been about 9 in this photo!
I remember the 1980's & early 1990's when Tony & Lorna Marsh the Peacock Inn's owners had jazz bands playing in the back bar on Friday evenings . I snapped some photos of Stan Tracey sitting on telephone directories to gain the best height to play an old upright piano. It was party night every Friday and the audience came from quite a distance to enjoy the evening.
My ancestor's nephews Henry and George Wraight aged 35 and 25 were brewers labourers most likely at Thompsons Brewery which was situated to the left of this photo where you can just see the Bell on a sign, this is an indication of their outlet the Bell public house which has survived to this day. In 1881 this was welcome employment for these Wraight ...see more
Can any of you lovely folk tell me if Millfield Cresent still stands . My dad was born there in 1925 & I would like to come see it . Thanks in advance
This building is still there in Church Road, not far from where John Greenfield lived in the nineteenth century with his wife Mary and daughter Sarah and sons James & John.
John Greenfield or Grinfield snr left a will in 1834 giving details of his family. By that time Sarah was married to John Clements of Croydon. His son John & Sarah Shepherd had at given him a ...see more
This isn't really a memory because I was too young at the time. I was born in a timber bungalow called "Midway" on Lowford Hill, Bursledon in April 1942. Dad was working at the Follands aircraft factory at that time, building war planes. Mum, my older brother Guy, and I moved to Findon Valley in West Sussex in 1944 following a near-miss from a VI Flying Bomb. Fortunately it landed on vacant ground across the ...see more
In 1881 at 336 Portabello Road single woman Mary Dowsett aged 46 was greengrocer and had her neice Elizabeth Poulter living with her. She may have had a stall in the market as it mainly sold fresh-food in the 19th century? I think the present market resides in the district of Notting Hill.
Alexander Mcnab aged 29 & his wife Harriet aged 35 with their 2 young sons resided at number 324 Grays Inn Road on the 1901 census. Earlier in 1897 Alexander had been a Stage Carriage driver in Holloway. Cornelius Crawley another Omnibus driver probably was their lodger.
His father Sydney had been a Police Inspector who served in Rhodesia, and lived in Perranporth in a property called Inyanga and was a members of the Golf Club. Kenneth & Nellie Edwards were residents of the town up to the 1990s and her sister Mrs Eileen Mace became a resident in the 1970s. On 8th September 1946 Kenneth married Widow Nellie Kathleen Drake in Brixton.
The boat at the left of this view is the Velsheda at that time a houseboat. What a come down from racing in the Americas Cup before the war! I remember my uncle taking my father and I out in his 18ft boat for a cruise up the Hamble and pointing her out to us in the early 1960's. Thank goodness she was rescued and after millions spent now sails once again in all her glory.
I think it was on ...see more
Anybody remember me in Heswall Children’s Hospital. My name then was Veronica Roberts I had a RTA on the way home from school beginning of summer 1957.I had a broken leg, concussion and a broken nose. I had my 5th birthday in hospital.. my mum and 2 cousins came to visit. As I recall I was in the room next to matron, during the night someon3 climbed through the window and got in my bed. I was ...see more
Edward John Russell was born in 1888, by 1939 his father John Small Russell was deceased but his mother Mary Emma nee Tyler from High Halden was a widow aged 75, living with His wife Ada nee Butler. They also had a daughter Hazel Russell aged 18 who helped in the house.
1890's to 1920s Alfred Baker & his family lived in The Grove, which became Lynton road and was few roads away from this photo's location. He worked as a groundsman at Crouch Hill Playing Fields, at first to look after the cricket pitch & fields, then later the Tennis Club. He had 9 daughters who all were big tennis fans & one of them, Mrs Bessie Burgiss competed in the Evening Standard ...see more
Pupil at whittlebury in '60s.charlie/chaz langmead. Played guitar, not well. Formed trio and played at old boys reunion in the gym. Also famous for smashing up dunlop bus at silverstone and getting 8 lashings and detention for a term. The day a guy blew his hand off with a cycle frame bomb. Yeah! Good olde days.
Yep still alive, just.
Any of you olde codgers still knocking about. Hope so. Get in touch. 🤞
In 1940 my mother Dorothy Edith Thomas a saleswoman who had worked at the Selfridges Store in Oxford Street London, married my father at Holy Trinity Church in Trinity road (which goes from the top of Tulse Hill to the Norwood Road below).
In the 1960's I attended St Martins In the Fields High School for Girls, where the playing grounds were overlooked by this church. I have fond memories of the school swimming pool which had been newly built for pupils in those grounds.
Where the present Tulse Hill Tesco Shop and Esso Petrol station stands today, was the home of my grandfather Alfred John Thomas from the 1920's to the 1950's. Through the 1960's & 70's his daughter Julie Thomas ran the Petrol Station. The Station was in front of their home, a large victorian building (no 109), which had been some sort of club, called Cheriton Court. The grounds behind ...see more
At 26 Bellesfields road Brixton off Stockwell Road, lived James Greenfield a Police Constable, who lived with his mother Florence Sarah nee Tyler, at this address before he married Dorothy Thomas at Holy Trinity Church Tulse Hill on August the 3rd 1940.
John Belemore lived at the Manor House in Harlesden with his wife Frances nee Whitby, her relation Robert Whitby was the Local Surgeon GP in the 19th century.
I remember the 1980's & early 1990's when Tony & Lorna Marsh the Peacock Inn's owners had jazz bands playing in the back bar on Friday evenings . I snapped some photos of Stan Tracey sitting on telephone directories to gain the best height to play an old upright piano. It was party night every Friday and the audience came from quite a distance to enjoy the evening.
I have discovered that my relations were related by marriage to Lord Horatio Nelson. He had a 2nd cousin called Bartholomew Nelson whose widow Lydia married my ancestor James Whitby, a builder from Kings Lynn.
James owned a property in Whissonsett occupied by a T. Neal, and his son James Neal married Lydia's daughter Emma Nelson. On the 1841 census in Whissonsett James & Emma Neal are living with their family and Lydia Nelson aged 70.
I was at palmaston house 1977 6mnths it was not the best place remember Mr Hall went to abbey wells summer of 1977 than in 1984 mr Hall become oiffce in charge
My mum Sylvia Pitts was evacuated from Bristol as a child to Gunnislake during the war. She stayed with a farming family with her school friend. All I remember from her is that she was on a farm and the eldest son was called Tom.
Mum was a proper Townie and it was a big culture shock to be living in the countryside. Sadly she has now passed away so I can no longer get any more information about her stay.
Sue.
Trolley buses ran along Green Lanes from Finsbury Square; turning right for Enfield at Mason's Corner. The 244 route went from Collegiate School, Winchmore Hill to Muswell Hill. Chalkleys the bakers was on the corner of The Green & Broad Walk had houses for celebrities & football champions. Keble School where I attended, boys only, had summer uniform including grey felt hats with a brim & hatband in ...see more
We lived in the last house at the bottom of benson Lane, next to the fields, great memory's, attended normanton infants school and normanton Common, my brother Frank went to normanton grammar school. Remember living in the back to back terraces, the outside toilets at home and at the school. Playing in the fields next to our house, also playing in haw Hill Park, lots of times, my sister wendy falling in the pond one day ...see more
I was born in a house on the Eastern Avenue between Cantly gardens and Denham Drive in 1955. I moved to wales to go to uni in 1975. I worked as a Saturday girl in Barton’s the bakers in Gants Hill for a ridiculously low wage. Loved it. I then worked in Chelsea Girl in Oxford Street on a Saturday that paid a lot better. Gants Hill station was my second home taking me and my friends to London. I attended Newbury ...see more
I don’t know exactly how old I was when we moved to Hemel from Willesden London N.W.10.. My first memories were from about the age of 4.. We lived in a flat in Underacres Close near Mayland’s Wood.. I remember getting lost in the wood and a nice man helped me by lifting me over his back garden fence and putting me back in Briery Road so I knew were I was again.
I remember going to the ...see more
Hi I went to St Cuthbert's from 1964 to 1969 my time there was ok but i was not one of the best student, i was in trouble a lot for fighting. I was known then as Billy Carr or Jeckal at that time i went straight into the army from school and spent 9 years in the Royal Engineers. I lived in Frizington at that time always a chaotic bus ride home!!!. I remember Goose and a few of the young ladies from my time ...see more
My Dad, Sandy Leonard was the Group Scout Leader of the 1st Green Street Green Scout Group in the 1960’s. We lived just up from the Crescent Way.
Best to all
Peter
I am very interested in Northleach because my family connections, the Mustoes and Larners, go back several hundred years there and certainly in the case of the Larners back to the 1600's.
Both families were shepherds and agricultural labourers. This was a very close knit community and as an example of that my great grandparents, Thomas Larner and Elizabeth Mustoe were first cousins. (Her father and his ...see more
I attended this school between !971 and 1974 before moving on to Purley High School. It was a truly awful school run by a Dickensian character, who still used corporal punishment. He was aided and abetted by like minded teachers who didn't seem to like children, although there were a few exceptions. I too was bullied while there by children and a teacher. Dreadful place. Remembered for all the wrong reasons. Many years later, returning to the gates brought back tears.
I stayed in one of these coaches when I was four years old back in 1958
My grandfather, Thomas Haskard, was proprietor of the White House inn for 25 years until his death in 1951. I spent many happy holidays there with my brother, Roger, and my three cousins lived in a house just across the road. I still bear a scar on my leg from forays into Ambergate Woods with my brother, who was born in Ambergate in 1935. I was christened in St Anne’s church in 1941. My father Stanley worked for Ambergate ...see more
I spent many happy holidays with my Auntie Doris, who lived in Shaw Lane. My dad and aunt spent many happy times in the Wheel Inn and my cousin married Jean Tuner, the daughter. My other aunt and three cousins lived at Derwent View, Milford, at the other end of Shaw Lane so we made many journeys up and down the lane. My Auntie Doris eventually moved down to Makeney Lane, Milford and lived at East View near the Derwent.
My Dad did his army training adjacent to Baglan during WW2.
The hastily built barracks did not have enough bathroom facilities and asked local residents for permission for soldiers to have a bath in their houses. A super-kind family allowed this for my Dad and they also invited us to stay with them.
So, my mother, younger sister and brother took a very long train journey from Grimsby and stayed for a few ...see more
I was in Hutton residential school between 1955/58 in neath house my name then was David O’Sullivan I remember the house master had a dog which I believe was a golden retriever if anybody has any memories of neath house at that I would like to share them with you
My Mum grew up and stayed in Stanstead Abbotts. We lived in a house in Thele Avenue. We often walked up Cats Hill with our Dad and played in the woods. Quite a beautiful place to grow up.
Memories of getting the tube from Arnos Grove to Rayners Lane and then the long walk up Imperial Drive - until reaching the driving centre.
The set up included traffic lights, zebra crossings, roundabouts, parking spaces, parked cars and a class room. Inside, a cut in half mini - showing you all the workings of the engine and steering - looks like someone had cut it open in length - ...see more
So many hours of reading here in this library. The children's section was in the main door and to the right served by the 2 windows shown on the ground floor. I recall taking out every Arthur Ransome title and many others. I was fascinated by the section of the Surrey Iron Railway displayed in the gardens also to the right of the pool against the boundary wall. I wonder if its still ...see more
Hi
I am am coming for a reminisce of holidays at Holywell farm, which my Great Uncle Harry and Great Aunt Vi owned, I am hoping I can find the beautiful thatched house, they were idyllic holidays for us girls who came from a council estate in Reading, Berks.
Collecting eggs from the hen house, and Aunt Vi, having some egg scales to find out if they were Standard, medium, large, which was my ...see more
My father, Alex cross, and his siblings grew up in brunton street, he said it curved around and theirs had an old boat in the garden/yard. I am going back to the 1930s.
I cannot find any photos of brunton street, has anyone got one?
His dad was Fred, born London, mother Lilian(nee Stuart). There was Tom, Lena, Alex, Harold, Maisy, Freda and Raymond. It appears much changed from when my father was young.
I went to fornethy residential school when I was five and nine years old and I was very happy thare I loved the long walks through the woods and walking down the stoney brae to the burn to paddle our feet and we had to pass a farm to get to the burn and everyone would hold their nose because of the smell. I remember in the classroom sending home a letter and drawings of what I had been up ...see more
In 1957 l went to Ledston Hall school at the Time it was a boys boarding school. My stay was short only one year as the school moved to breckenburgh Hall near Thirsk.
Sadly Ledston Hall was deamed to be unsafe.
I have a lot of memories about the school.
The building in this view with the clock was, in the 1960's, a bank, I don't recall which one but maybe Barclays. I do recall on entering it, the main service counter ran parallel to the High Street and behind it under the windows facing the Whitgift alms houses on the opposite corner was another counter about 20ft [6m] long and 2ft 6" [0,75m] wide completely covered in bundles of notes. 5 Pound, 1 Pound and 10/- notes. ...see more
I remember these shops so well from my childhood. The first on the left was a newsagent the next a baker at the other end of the Broadway was the post office. My brothers,my sister and I passed them every school day on our way to Highview School up Plough Lane. I especially recall that in 1952 most of the shops had stuck stamps of King George on their windows; some they had edged with black ink as a mark of respect ...see more
As a family we stayed at a self catering cottage here just before 1962 one of our first holidays in the Standard Vanguard estate after many staying in Railway Camping coaches all over southern England. [Sadly none feature in the archive] I well remember the water being delivered and the spout and trough in the retaining wall that held up the Church graveyard. I suppose it still does. Considering the origin of ...see more
From 1964 I occasionally took the No. 691 bus from Ilford to Barkingside to shop. I used to buy my toddler son a Matchbox car from a toy shop. He didn't talk a lot but within a couple of years he could name most of the cars on the road and was particularly enamored of the car transporters that we saw on the Eastern Avenue. The first one bought was a white Volvo which forever after became 'Saint's Car'
Can anyone tell me ...see more
