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I was born here on 14th January, 1958. The midwife was called Rosemary, which is my second name.
This photo shows the shop where I was born in the 1950's - my mum's name is on the sign above the shop, June Veronica Hicks. The photo must be after 1964 as it was my dad's,John Hicks's Newsagents shop & that was the year he died. There was also a shop just showing on the left behind the black & white buliding which was a baker where the bread was baked on site & that was run by Frank Hicks who was my ...see more
I remember attending the weddng of Christine and Tony Cutland. It was a fantastic affair as most of the guests were from a construction company called Turriff . I would love to see Chris and Tony again. I do know they had a daughter named Holly & I do know Christine came from Burntwood and they live in Lichfield now. Chris and I used to drive down to a place called Wing near Leighton Buzzard every ...see more
My family bought property between Colliers End & High Cross - about 5 acres. My dad used to stop there for tea after having biked from London to Cambridge and stopped on his way back to London. The acreage comprised a lovely two-storey house, a poultry farm, barn and woodland, restaurant with gazebos & other buildings for teas and dinners. The house stood on its own down in a dell. You ...see more
My Mum and Dad owned the Orange Cafe on the Staines Road West but when I came along, they moved to Green Lane. My brother and I had many happy days down on the Island in Lower Sunbury, both using the pool or swimming in the Thames. How the Cross has changed over the years. I remember when you had to drive round the old Clock Tower in the centre of the road. Also taking the 90 bus to Staines or the ...see more
I went to live in Huddersfield in 1964, having been in Poolsbrook fom being born in 1944. I went to school with Ann West, Mavis Bannister, Margo Frost and Barbara Budworth. We had happy times. Doing all the things that girls do.
I would like to be able to contact them, but don't have their married names !!
My Grandmother rented a cottage (Era Goch) during the war and I went to live with her as a sort of evacuee. I used to attend the one room school in Dwyran. I played with my friends on the beach. I don't know how we did not drown as we would go to Newboroug Warren as it was called then and played in the gullies when the tide was out. I remember Quirt Farm where I was chased by a mother pig. A dairy farm at the bottom of ...see more
We moved from Northumberland to Collyhurst after the war. My Dad worked at Victoria Station and my Mum got a job at Phillips Soles and Heels. We lived on Knoll Street which was next to the railway and had the gas works at the bottom of the street. At the top of the street was an old man who had a wood shack with a fence round who we called Chippy, he sold firewood. In those days we all had open fires. I ...see more
I have many fond memories of the Legion in Grendon Road Polesworth. It was demolished sometime in the 1980s, does anyone have any pictures of it or its members and committee, Many thanks, Neville
I was born in Penygraig in the 40's. I remember Churchill's garage, somewhere near the labour club.
Does anyone remember George St, where Milwall's shop used to be? Also a chip shop was nearby.
The best 2 week camp I attended - great training area. Also off duty time spent in Tavistock, lovely little market town. One night attended a dance in the townhall (upstais if I remember), met a local girl there her name was (is) Sylvia, happy days.
Happy days as a boy and a man, we were a big family of 8 boys and 1 girl - always noise and lots of people in our home. Our parents were the best, many memories.
My nan, Beatrice Wareham used to live at Dovas cottages and we used to come and spend our summer holidays with her. My Aunt Jane and Uncle Mickey Hevele lived at The Borough and my cousin Elizabeth used to work for Mr Birch. My Aunt Jane still lives in the village. I can remember going to the shops with my nan and passing the bootmaker. I seem to remember my mum (Rhoda McGonigle) nee Wareham ...see more
Santa Lucia Hotel was owned and run by Marion Olive Barkway, better known as Miss Bee. Marion was my grandmother and we used to visit every Sunday afternoon to help out with evening meals. When I was small I remember standing on the sun terrace fishing and gazing out onto the river. As I grew, I got into canoeing and used to keep my canoe there climbing over the wall to get to the river. Marion had a succession ...see more
I was an R.A.F. Police cpl. from 1948 - 1950. Met many good friends, also my wife who was in the W.R.A.F. signals. Would be very interested to hear from anyone who remembers Bill (Don) or Toni. We would like to hear from George (Bob )Brockwell in particular, his wife Peggy, or his daughter Carol. My wife and I have been married 61years had three sons and now live in Melbourne Australia.
Aged from 5 to 10yrs old I lived in Cunningham Road. I attended Beachfield Boys School walking the kilometre or so, through the back alleys and home again, this was all right in the warmer weather but quite a task in the winter snow and ice. I remember the gas lamp lighter coming round each evening to switch the lamposts on. After school the children in the area used to play marbles in the street and ...see more
I have fond memories of Ebbesbourne Wake. During 1957/8 I lived with a friend in a cottage on Mrs Hiscock's Hillside Farm where I milked cows. I socialized with other teens from the Bowerchalke Baptist Church and we often led Sunday services in chapels in the Chalke Valley. Without a car we accessed the cottage late at night by clambering up the footpath that leads almost directly from the centre of the ...see more
Can anyone remember Meeting Street in Ramsgate? I was born there and would love to see an old photo of the street.
It's been years since I have seen this photo. I can remember a market there, also a cafe where in them days of the 1960's was where people would listen to music and drink coffee. Anyone remember?
When I was a child I went to a Sunday School here in this school. Wonder if anyone can remember the Sunday School or even went there?
I went to this school when it opened in 1965 and was very new. I remember doing gardening and cooking using new cookers. Our uniforms were brown and white or lemon. I was thinking about it recently when Davy Jones died as we were all Monkee fans. My father was in the army and we lived in the village for 6 years. I sang in the church choir and went to brownies and guides. I left towards the end on 1967.
January 1977.
The rain was almost horizontal that day, ice cold too, as I walked towards the hut at the delivery wharf of the Ford River Plant in Dagenham, Essex, I thought to myself that it really could not be any worse than this.
It is odd, the human brain, well, mine is anyway. That moment is an indelible memory locked in my particular timeline, the nineteen year old apprentice, almost ...see more
The miniature railway was built by a Mr Dove and his family and I know this as they
stayed at my parents hotel, The Fairhaven, and we had parts of the trains in the garage.
Mr Dove and his family came from the Derbyshire area.
My mother Gwen Clayden worked at the Ritz cinema during the war years, and spent many evenings on the roof doing fire watch. As a teenager in the mid sixties I remember many shops along Darkes Lane including Woolworths opening (in the late 50's I think) Delmars Record Shop and the Embassy Club. Boddies Sweet Shop, Baldwins Bike Shop and a very old fashion chemist on the corner of Manor Road. Thurleys Toy Shop, Singer ...see more
I would like to point out that the old school ,both Infant and Junior, are still standing, as yet .They are both in a sad state of repair. I too, have some real vivid memories, some happy and some, not so. I attended Eustace Street School from 56 - 61. I remember my first day at the school too.
I was born at 81 Cowbridge Rd, Pontyclun. Parents, George and Gwen Edwards were in rooms with Tom and Bertha Anstey. In 1936 went to Pontyclun School, lots of friends there, Ray Wigley ,Don Summers, Norman Ellis and Percy Edwards. Was in Air Cadets, also played rugby for Pontyclun with my cousin Brandon Edwards and the likes of Brian Evans, Mog Watkins and Noel Alleyn. Only one season, think it was 1958/9 ...see more
Every year I look forward to the Wimborne Folk Festival in June. After two days of busy performances I try to find time on the Sunday afternoon, of my return home, to do some local sightseeing and one of my favourite places to see is Badbury Rings. Now in the care of the National Trust it is well preserved and the size of the circular ditches is amazing - maybe some 40 feet or so. Just ...see more
The Speyside Steam Railway is a Heritage Railway which runs from Aviemore to Boat of Garten. I visited in May 2010 with my wife Elizabeth and sister-in-law Margaret on an organised railway touring holiday of Scotland. I was particularly impressed by the attention to detail given to the way in which the station platforms had been "dressed" at Boat of Garten. There was a "sit up and ...see more
Just found out my great great grandparants, John and Hannah Kyte lived there. John's occupation was horse carter. Hannah's maiden name was Huberd.
Anyone remember the trolly buses that went up Eastwood Boulevard and along by the Albany Laundry?
MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to own his own grocery business..after early years as a grocers 'lad' and enforced war years, ensconed in the centre of birmingham as a tool maker turning out precision parts for the ...see more
When I was a small child, I remember the remains of an old ducking stool by the large pond which was at the Queen Street side of the park.
I used to live with my dad in the mid 70's at 210 b Ripple Rd. Ii used to be terrified of a fair haired girl who seemed to wait for me on the landing just below the top flat where we lived, she wore victorian clothes, I felt her often in my bedroom too! Francine Hodges, nee Solomons.
Further to my other memories. I have just found a picture of My Father & I having just returned from Brick Lane. Everyone knows Petticoat Lane by Aldgate East Station.
My Dad avoided it because he thought it sold mostly tat. We would always go further on to where all the Debris around Brick Lane were situated. On these ex bomb sites were 100s of stalls selling everything from China-plates (seeing those ...see more
This is the Pinner village scene as I remember it from my schooldays. The photographer is standing close to the junction of Chapel Lane and Bridge Street looking up the hill towards the Langham Cinema. Chapel Lane on the photographer's left leads under the Metropolitan Railway Line Bridge and to the entrance to Pinner Memorial Park where I fed the ducks by the pond both as a child myself and later ...see more
My email address is brettgavin54@gmail.com, I am two years younger than you, but went Chandos St Boys School, we must of seen each other. Did you have a page boy hair cut,(blonde) when 10 or 11? I'm not sure this site comment is genuine, anyway, if it is real please reply.
My mum worked at the Prompt Corner Coffee Bar for many years and my sister and I used to go in for our tea most days. We knew many of the regulars, but as I was pretty young most of the names escape me now.
Mum also worked as an usherette at the Regal, and we went to the cinema regularly. She also worked in the greengrocers near to the Importers Coffee Shop (not a cafe) but what it was called I don't ...see more
I first came to stay in the area when I was about 4 yrs old, I was born in 1951. We stayed in a tent on a farm just outside Llanrhaeadr on the Pistyll Falls lane. The farm was owned by a man called John Jones, his wife and they had a daughter called Della May. We used to call Mr Jones "John Willy Ice Cakes". I do not know why but we did. I was chased by his huge Gander down the field. I remember their ...see more
I remember when I was about ten or eleven, we used to camp out in the back field behind the flats in Rockford Avenue, four or five of us in a two-man tent. After a rough nights sleep we would get up early in the morning and send one of my younger cousins and his mates to pinch some milk, eggs, and bread from the doorsteps after the milkman and the bread man had delivered them. Then we would cook a big ...see more
This is a faked photo! Stone 56 is upright only because it has been drawn in on the negative - the clue is that Stones 21, 22 and their lintel 121 had collapsed before stone 56 was straightened in 1901. (If you are not a Stonehenge geek that probably was too much information!)
The original photograph was also used as a postcard, but I guess that when stone 56 was straightened in a welter of publicity they ...see more
Hi, my dad went to Scottow School, he was born in 1938 and lived in 8 Scottow Row. Was just wondering if anybody had memories or photos of the school and the class. I now know my dads old house has been made into one big house. Thank you for your time, Melanie Faulkes.
I remember St Alkelda's, such a lovely church
I was priviledged to be given a guided tour of the Bank of England Printing Works at Debden. I had just started work at the Bank in the City in 1963 and my tour formed part of the induction process for all new staff. Our group of a dozen new staff were given directions to take a Central Line tube train from the Bank station in the City out to Essex where the Bank's Printing works had been ...see more
St Patricks Open Air School Hayling Island. I went there to get strong enough to have an op' to remove my lung. Didn't like it at all ! The girls were great and had good friends, but it was quite harsh and I found it very strict, almost to the point of unbearable, but it certainly toughened me up ! I can remember Sisters, Bertha, Dorethy, Raymond, John Joseph, & Paul, not ...see more
I remember going with my mother to the cafe after visiting Outpatients at St Andrew's Hospital, after a stay there for an operation on a 'trigger thumb' - I was only 6, but I recall that the cafe did a lovely ham sandwich & glass of milk. Many years later, I visited the same building, which by then had become the Polash Indian Restaurant - the food was different, but just as enjoyable !
Not long after we moved to be near my new job in Glasgow, I took a few days off work so that Elizabeth and I could go sightseeing towards Oban. We took the train from Glasgow, Queen Street to Taynuilt for nostalgic reasons as Elizabeth had spent many childhoold holidays there in the 1950's. It was early December 1975 and my Glasgow colleagues tried to talk me out of making the trip as ...see more
My daughter Jackie Fuller married in this church in 1972 and my daughter Trina was christened there. We lived in Manning Street and I was married to Ted Fuller who still lives in Aveley. Trina was christened there in 1968 and I still remember the Vicar who did the service for both of them but cannot remember his name..
Seeing this view in all weathers, as year on year we climbed up on Good Friday for an inter-church gathering round a wooden cross "planted" for the Easter weekend.
My Nan and grandad lived in the house on the left hand side of the street where the grey car is parked outside. It was a great place to play when I was a child. I loved this place. It was beautifully old fashioned both inside and out. Lots of happy memories spent here. Rachael Mead
I was born in 1956 and lived in Dunimarle St in High Valleyfield!
I was born in Moccas at Castle Cottage. My grandmother lived at the common where, on her death I moved with my parents to the common. My father and his father put the fencing around Moccas Park which some of it still remains today.
I was born in Princes Street in 1959 and lived there till 1978 when it was demolished. I grew up in Widnes and miss it terribly, I went to St Maries then Kingsway School.
Around that time I'd have a sock on a stick and Mom taking me to the Mitcham side of Morden Hall Park to go fishing for tiddlers. I don't recall being too successful. But it was fun.
What a wonderful experience every Tuesday night!! Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen (I loved the trombone player!). Trad jiving. No cost to get in. I guess those were the days.
My mother Ruth Hadlow lived at number 5 (even though it was the first cottage - should be number 1) memories of visiting my grandad there until he moved in the late eighties.
The house next door used to be the old police house, the Petmans lived there in the 60s, he kept eels and trout in his waterbutt, much to my amusment as a child.
Used to steal my uncles fishing tackle from the shed at the rear ...see more
My Great grandfather Thomas Bareham lived at the Veldt Cottage which was next door to the Red Lion pub.He was also church warden at Great Holland Parish Church where he was well liked and respected. Although I live in Ipswich, I visit Great Holland and Clacton quite often.
I am trying to trace my family's history and wondered if anyone can help. My Grandfather, Sidney George Moon lived at 114 Lewis Street according to the 1911 census. He worked down the Crumlin pit. He went on to father 12 children and my father Kenneth C. Moon was the youngest born in 1920 in Crumlin but they may have moved into Rectory Road by then. According to the 1911 census Sidney and his wife Florence ...see more
I was born in Lound in 1937 and lived there until I was called up for national service December 1957. My grandparents were the last family to farm at East View farm, the farmhouse is now a private house, the land was sold for sand and gravel extraction.
I worked on the farm for about two years until my grandparents died. At that time there were 6-7 working farms on Main Street ours being one of them. I ...see more
I can't remember a great deal of my early years living at Round Tree Farm, perhaps you might know me? A red very curly haired tom boy (I think) with a new baby brother. I did attend the local school for a short period. My father worked on the farm for 4 years during the war. I do remember the big black barn in front,(almost)of our cottage which many children played in. Also, picking armfuls of ...see more
I remember this grand house as a private residence with many fond memories. The owners had Monkeys as pets in a huge cage in the grounds and wonderful horses. I lived for many years at the farm belonging to Grayshott Hall called Home Farm, before this I believe the farm was Bulls Farm. We spent many happy hours roaming around the gardens of the Big House and enjoying farm life. Does any one remember the Fetes ...see more
I was born in Tatham Strret and then we lived on Milnrow Road where my parents owned a fireplace and china shop. I have many happy memories of my childhood there. I used to go next door to Harold the clog maker and play with the odd parts of the clogs, I think I plagued the life out of the poor man. We came back not so long ago as I wanted to show my husband where I had grown up and show him Smith Street where ...see more
When I was born in William St in 1942, Harpurhey was very different from today. Horses and carts delivered the milk and coal, the horses following the carters down the st, knowing where to stop for the next drop. Mam would let us give the horse a crust covered in jam, as it waited at the step. The rag and bone man was a regular sight, with his cry echoing the surrounding streets. Out we'd run with ...see more
In the mid and late forties I attended Kingsmuir Boarding School in what is known today as Alderford Grange. It was owned and mastered by Ms Francis. We were told that the building had once been the Inn attached to the Bell PH next door.
During my attendance the interior was extensively rebuilt, even the deep wooden sink in the kitchen was replaced, along with the ancient lath and plaster ...see more
My maternal Grandmother was Susannah Judge. She was of a fairly large family, I remember sister's names Mary, Ada and Rebecca. Mary, I think, went to live in london, Ada married Jim Gubby & lived in Barnwell Northants and Auntie Bec moved to Heywood in Gtr Manchester as did my Grandma.
I remember Grandma telling me that after morning service the Vicar would dine for lunch with the judge & jury!!
This House is in Summer Lane at the top of 66 steps adjacent to the old Kingham Quarry, where undoubtedly its name was acquired.
Saunders was a sweet shop. The old black rickety split door, that I can still hear rattle now as it opened, and you stepped down two steps to get to the shop. Mr and Mrs Saunders, an elderly couple, ran it for years. I remember the step ladder they had to climb to get the sweets off the top shelf.
The Little Shop was an aladins cave of toys and artistic meterials. Glitter tubes, Christmas cards ...see more
I was born at number 3 North Street in 1942. I was in my mothers arms and can remember Italian prisoners of war marching up to the camp on the Beamsley side of the River Wharfe and hiding on a shelf under the stairs whilst a German bomber had a go at the old SU factory at Low Mills (making carburetors for our spitfires). He missed, but there is still a crater on the opposite side of the river.
1948,the year I started at Kingsley School. We lived in Oakhanger, but at Shortheath Common end so to kingsley I went on the back of my mothers bike. Dinner came in hay boxes on the back of a landrover from wherever - lots of stews and cabbage. In the winter, our milk was put next to the large fire at the end of the room to thaw out. Father Christmas came every Christmas and gave us all a present. We would go ...see more
I used to go to the Bali Hai in the early 1970s. A great club next to the now closed Streatham Ice Rink.
You could look down on the skaters from inside the club.
Great music played, soul, Motown etc. Looking back, the '70s was a good era for the disco.
I meant to say 2nd World War, not the 1st !!
Although I was born at 160 Langdown Road in 1956 (Peckham), my first memory is in 1961 when I first went to school. The neighbours I remember are the Knapp, McGill, Hosey, Black, West, Anzak, Flood, Dyer, Ham, Vaughan, Cooper, Broomfield, Smith and Cane.
St Joseph's Home, Patricroft
We Had our holidays at Formby beach. William Bamford I have tried to contact you through this site my emails have not been opened. Can you respond?
maureen (Noble) Malone
I too grew up on the Peartree Estate and have memories of all that Christine remembers. I saw my very first pig at a small farm at the rear of Uplands Green, I think the farmers name was Mr. Duval. I too attended to St Joseph's school Rugelely. I remember being terrorised by the nuns for just living on the estate. Bearing in mind that the Peartree Estate helped Rugeley prosper at that time. One particular memory was ...see more
During family research, I discovered that my grandmother, a Miss Bull was living in Regent House. She may have been in service, can anyone help with the family name or any other details of her employer?
We lived at Moorlands in The Marld, Ashtead, around the years 1948 to 1952. It was a large house with a very large garden and orchard. There was also a tennis court. I can remember being sent to the upper village to have the battery for the wireless recharged at the hardware shop and also hurling apples at any boys who came too close to our fence. At the top of The Marld was a ruined house that we were convinced was ...see more
Just behind the black car pulling out of a driveway on the left is Christchurch and cemetery. Also behind the car is the Pincott Memorial, which used to be sited where the clocktower now is. Pincott Memorial, a drinking fountain popular in olden days for horses, people and animals.
You don't see many prams like that today either.
I did my national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps at the Connaught Military
Hospital during 1957 and 1958. I worked in the pathology dept., ending up as Corporal.
I remember the Gurkha patients coming, I think in the second half of 1958, so I may have been there at the same time as Margaret Boale.
I have a Frith photograph of part of the hospital as she describes it showing the single storey huts - ...see more
Lived at 28 Park Road and I attended St Thomas's School. My grandparents overlooked Aston Gardens living at 4 St Georges Avenue. Their names were Joseph and Elizabeth Hardman whose children were called Joyce Walmsley, John Walsley and Josie. Next door to them were a great family called Grierson. Mrs Grierson was a dressmaker who had sons and daughters with names Stephen, Joyce, Elizabeth 'Twizzy' and David. ...see more
After a hard days playing English and Germans in the Heuffy Wood, coming home for our tea ,if we where really thirsty we called at Stan and Hilda's for a cool drink of water - we where always welcome. Once or twice we saw Stan being wheeled down the boathouse bank from the pub, mortal drunk. Stan had ducks and hens and pigs, a great garden and orchid. Sometimes Stan would give my dad an old hen for the pot.
Hi, I'm trying to get in touch with Grace Lee - she went to Chorlton Tech which then became Wilbraham Heigh school from 1964/1968. She lived on Clarenden Rd, Moss side. It would be good to be in touch with anyone who attended at that time.