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Susan Oudot: Corrie writer with a passion for Milner Square

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Everyone has a story. Write what you know is advice for new writers – but Susan Oudot, bestselling author and series writer of more than 50 episodes of ITV’s Coronation Street, has used this maxim to explore her family’s memories of growing up in Milner Square just off Almeida Street. The…

Ivy Allan Freeman: Islington memories from 1933

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Everyone has a story. Perhaps it is because Ivy Allan Freeman has been living in the US for nearly 50 years that her memories of growing up near King’s Cross – with the sound of horses’ hooves on the cobbles and later the terrifying air raids – are so astonishingly vivid. Here…