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Anyone remember the Cake shop opposite Champions Timber New Malden Surrey?. I used to work there after school and on a Saturday for Mrs Star, My Mum worked at the Iron Mongers opposite. My Dad was a ...Read more

A memory of New Malden by yoco63

This must be a bit earlier than 1960. I moved as a 7 year old to the black and white house in 1962. It is 18 Broad Street and was a wine merchants Hunter and Olivers. My father was the manager for around 25 years. Before him it was Peter ...Read more

A memory of Bungay in 1962 by David Woodcock

Horley was a series of hamlets on the London to Brighton Road which only began to expand when the London to Brighton railway arrived in 1841. This view of Station Road is taken from the railway footbridge looking north-east.

A memory of Horley

We moved into School Street when I was nine, along with my two sisters Norma and Iris and our parents Mary and Norman Cook. My father was a lead glazer at Reed Millicans on Team Valley. At the Derwentwater Road end of School ...Read more

A memory of Bensham in 1958 by Linda Boss

My husband's ancestors were mostly Coopers. Has anybody any information about Coopers in Rodmell (John Pace, born Rodmell 1728) or in any of the surounding towns? Some of them were Coopers in East Grinstead, Brighton, Lewes... If you have any ...Read more

A memory of Rodmell by Carine Luyckx

Never had any direct connection with Alciston but have known it since my teens in the early 1960s and have visited many times over the years. What caught my interest is that the village has stayed relatively unchanged in the 20th ...Read more

A memory of Alciston by William Lovell

We moved from Balham to Burgess Hill in 1956. My parents had bought 267 Junction Road and then proceeded to renovate the house as it was in a shocking condition. Both my parents worked in London so I walked to my grandparents' ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1959 by Fran White

I first saw Littlehampton when my primary school made an end-of-year trip in 1963, and my memories were dominated by the figure-of-eight dodgems at the amusement centre, and some intrepid soul getting stuck in the river (God ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton by Tony Gorton

Hello, I was born in 1942 at 88 Sunbury Road, Feltham. There were four children born at the house, 1938 Gwyneth, 1942 Carol, 1945 Hilary, 1949 Kelvin. My mother, Gwyneth, and dad, Stan, moved into the house the day they were ...Read more

A memory of Feltham by Carol Anne Wilkins

When I was just a little lad - my dad was the senior carpenter for Croydon and I remember that one summer school holiday I was with him in his lorry and we marked out the boarders of New Addington with chestnut fencing. One year I was ...Read more

A memory of New Addington by Peter Lake