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The Mystery Bridge across the Mill Brook in Baguley. I was born in September 1946 and lived in Overdale Road Benchill before moving to Fouracers Road in Baguley about 1951. The Lanes, Farms and ...Read more

A memory of Wythenshawe by christopher.bowden

I was born in 1939 at 28 St.Anthonys Avenue, off St.Barnabus Road. I remembered the Anderson shelter in our back garden only vaguely as I was evacuated to North Wales with Janet Jenkins, and Brenda Hart. After the war, I went ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green by sissontessa

Syddal Farm was once the home of the Ashbrook family and originally stood on this site where the shops are standing in the photograph. My Grandparents William Hannah and their children Jack and Betty farmed ...Read more

A memory of Bramhall by driscoll.pamela

Between 1950 - 1980's the family owned a bakers shop at 84 High Street. P.G.WOODFORD & SON (opposite the Police Station). If anyone has memories of this period it would be good to get in touch. I ...Read more

A memory of Southall by zilbarin

I lived In Priory Close which faces the shops on South Woodford high road, I left when I married aged 19. My memories are of a wonderful childhood. I used to play out with all the other children who lived in the ...Read more

A memory of South Woodford in 1965 by gelobeney51

How interesting! I moved into your house when you left in 1965. Yes I have a few more memories of the area,the house no was 210 Moss Lane. I was fifteen at the time and my family were the Bentleys,I am Brian. The photographer ...Read more

A memory of Bramhall in 1965 by Lynne Watson

I moved to Woodford Bridge when I was about 4 years old in 1949 and a few years later went regularly to Church and Sunday School at St Paul's Church for several years.  The Vicar at that time was Rev Philip ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1954 by Chris Gadsby

I remember being taken by a family member to see their old home in Woodford Green, their parents had lived there all of their lives. One of the family's great-great-grandfathers named Goldsmith was a domestic ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1900 by Susan Dyke

I was born in 1942 and and spent my childhood in Walthamstow, which up to the time I left in 1967 was predominantly a white working class area in north-east London; I went to Chapel End Infants and Junior Schools ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow by Roy Beiley

My parents moved down to Aveley when I was 5, we moved into 94 Ravel Gardens, I think we were there for about 7 years then we moved into 147 Usk Road . There was 6 of us kids. I loved growing up in Aveley, we were always bunking ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by Jennie Cutler