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We moved to Oaktrow in January 1957, me travelling in the cattle truck. The rest went by car. We stayed the first week or so at the Lion Inn, Timberscombe. Oaktrow had been purchased the previous summer. We eventually moved ...Read more

A memory of Timberscombe in 1957 by John Nurcombe

Powerstock was my local village from 1951 to 1963. We lived at Kings House Farm at the foot of Eggardon Hill. My father Eddie Whitaker farmed (the hill rented and his 13 acres) for 12 or so years before moving ...Read more

A memory of Powerstock in 1951 by Peter Whitaker

Can anybody help with information, memories or photos of a former children's home in Epping New Road, in Buckhurst Hill? I spent part of my childhood in a children's ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1955 by The Frith Memory Archivist

Mum and Dad bought The Coach House and Walled Garden when the estate was split up after Lord Doverdale died - we were there 1952 - 61. As a lad I used to help furnish the show flats in the big house by moving the furniture from ...Read more

A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1953 by Matt O.B.O Roy Anderson

I grew up in a lovely old house called The Rookery in Green Street running down into Sunmead Road. It was one of the larger homes in Sunbury but sadly knocked down around 1964. The house orignally stood on ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury in 1952 by Lynn Tatnell

Albert Cant was my maternal grandfather. Other members of my family associated with the company were my father, Sidney Ladds and my aunt, Jo Ladds. My father ceased his association well before closure but my aunt continued ...Read more

A memory of Swanley in 1950

I was born at Hawthorne Cottage, Trampas Lane, North Boarhunt on May 7th 1957, it was my grandparents' house, Charlie and Marge Johnson. Their son Rod was my dad, and Joan was my mum, later I ...Read more

A memory of North Boarhunt in 1957 by Julie Harrison

The winter and spring of 1958 I was an ACC cook in the hospital kitchen. On one night duty I contracted tonsillitis and was put in the ward upstairs where the ghost of 'Sister Aggie', as she was known to us, was supposed to haunt and ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1958 by Victor Spink

I lived in Alderley Edge from 1950 to 1964, with my sister Ann, parents, and grandparents, after spending my very early years at Clockhouse Farm in Mottram St Andrew. We came to live in a house called Croston, previously the ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1955 by Graham Dilliway

I remember Bedfords from my childhood. When I was about 12 years old my friends and I used to cycle to Bedfords Park from nearby Elm Park, about 7 miles away. Bedfords Mansion as we used to call it, was being used as a ...Read more

A memory of Havering-atte-Bower in 1954 by Barry Strange