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Hi, Lyn! The pub on the corner of Long Acre and Holborn Hill was called the White Horse. On the day that we celebrated the Coronation (I think it was a Saturday but I'm not sure if it was the actual Coronation Day) tables were laid out from the bottom to the top of Malvern Hill Road. But, before...

g I remember Mr Hill. He was tall and thin and had a moustache. When I became a junior he sometimes did Playground Duty in the boys playground at the side of the school building. The older boys alerted us to the fact that Mr Hill would get us to line up at the end of playtime. Having done that...

Read the post again. It wasn't my brother.

As far as I know, the flywheel was powered by electricity. I worked there for two years. It may have been powered differently before my time in the sixties. I didn't know many of the other workers but, one day, a man of about sixty asked me to go upstairs to meet his brother who had worked in...

All that's left of the building is the front wall on Dudley Road that stretches from the canal bridge to the street corner.

I loved the building. I actually drove down Long Acre yesterday and still think it was a gross error to wipe away two whole blocks of shops and houses and my lovely School and put a supermarket in place. I don't really miss Newton's factory although it is forever in my memory.

First of all...how do I get to read my message from the organisers of this site? Right! I saw the Villa win the cup on my mate's TV in 1957. Johnny Dixon looked great when he was presented with the trophy. My mate and played football afterwards in an open space that was known as, "the big...

I loved being a schoolboy. Looking back, though, my education was poor. Firstly, more emphasis at St Clements was on religion. Hence, I was totally unprepared to pass the eleven-plus exam. At senior school, Charles Arthur Street, the education was even more lacking. I have had a lifetime to know...

One of the boys on the back row was Michael Cassidy. He is standing by the steps up into the boys playground. Mr Newman is the baldie in the centre. He was new to the school in September 1956.

The school disappeared along with the street.

The church was demolished much later. Probably the eighties although I'm not sure.

My sister, Linda, was christened there, too, in 1950. The church was where I played the part of the Angel Gabriel in my school nativity, twice. My school was St Clement's in High Park Street. I was also in the church choir as well as the school choir.

I was a choirboy there.

The church was pulled down. All that's left is the church hall where Sunday School was held. High Park Street has been replaced with a huge Chinese Supermarket which also replaces pubs, a coal yard, a school, a factory, a bank, a chemist, many shops and even more houses.

No. I was at the old school where the Chinese Supermarket now stands.

Hi, Debby! Were you at the new school?

The boy on the back row, 5th from the left is Clive Dobson in the photo of Saint Clements,around 1952 , with Mr Lewis, extreme right.

Tony Underwood: I know your name but can't remember what you looked like. What year were you born? Did you know Margaret Lyons? She lived in one of the houses over the wall in High Park Street. She was born in 1944/5

Miss Jacques was from India. She wasn't from the West Indies. Mr Lewis was my teacher when I went into Class Two. He gave me the lead role in my first play. He left the school to get married when I went into Class One. A lot of us kids were sent to wave goodbye to him on the day he left. He got...