Granny's Tales and Treasures
Granny's Memories
This is a page for personal memories.
If the title is underlined, it is a hyperlink that will take you to a separate page. For the few that don't have hyperlinks, click on the images to download a pdf and find out more. I hope to turn the remainder into hyperlinks in the near future.
Memories of Christmas. For the stories of some of the tree decorations see the Granny's Treasures page.
Memories of my infants' school. Some names have been redacted for privacy reasons.
Clothes Memories
Memories of the clothes we wore.
Memories of the food that we ate.
Memories of the home where I was born.
Memories of my Toys
Memories of my favourite toys and games. Stories of my parents' toys will be on the Granny's Treasures page.
Memories of Addiscombe in Surrey, now part of Greater London, where I was born and spent the first seven years of my life.
Memories of housework tasks. The picture was taken on 16 November 1958.
Memories of Shirley, Surrey, where I lived in the 1960s and 1970s.
Memories of Parkfields, Shirley, Surrey, where I lived from 1969 until I left home.
Memories of Firsby Avenue
Memories of my 'forever' childhood home in Shirley, Surrey , where I lived from 1963-1969.
Memories of Cross Street, Sandown, Isle of Wight; the first home that I owned and where I lived from 1978-1982.
How we used to keep clean and healthy.
Memories of Green End Street, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire where I lived from 1982-1986.
Memories of Croydon, Surrey. The 'big town' of my childhood and teenaged years in the 1960s and 1970s.
Memories of my time at Benson Junior School in Shirley. Names have been redacted for privacy reasons.
Memories of my time living in Reading, Berkshire, the town itself and the places I lived while I was at college in the 1970s. Names have been redacted for privacy reasons.
Memories of holidaying in Sandown and Lake, Isle of Wight in the 1970s, of living in Sandown from 1978 to 1982 and of living in Lake from 1985 to 2006. Names have been redacted for privacy reasons.