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I grew up in Welling in a house on Ridley Road. My mother lived in that house for over 60 years until she died this past January. I have 3 sisters - that was a tiny house with 1 bathroom, at times we seemed to really fill the place - felt more ...Read more

A memory of Welling by Louise Daring

My parents moved to Wickham Bishops in 1948 to help friends run the village Post Office Stores which sold everything - stamps, paraffin (you brought your own can and it was filled from a barrel at the back), vinegar (as ...Read more

A memory of Wickham Bishops in 1948 by Carol Argyris

thot id better leave a memory ciz nae other has left ane 4 newmill,poor show.1999 was the 1st time i got steamin,i remember it well,drinkin at newmill square wee the old boys.i drank about a quarter bottle o mince ...Read more

A memory of Newmill in 1999 by Brian Maclean

In 1950 I was born on a cold winter's night to my mother Rosemary Jesse, at 'The Black Houses', Kelvedon Road, Wickham Bishops, built by architect, designer and socio-economic theorist Arthur Heygate Macmurdo. I ...Read more

A memory of Wickham Bishops by Marilyn Jesse

Re Malcolm's question 'does anyone remember the gig?'. I do. I was 10 and had no interest in music at that time and my parents hated pop music. Our house backed onto the tennis courts in Blakes Recreation ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1964 by David Hayhoe

I lived in nearby Shirley and in the late 1950s I used to cycle through West Wickham to a fish and chip shop in Glebe Way on a Saturday evening for the family supper. I was in my teens at the time and ...Read more

A memory of West Wickham by Michael Bannister

I was at the concert in Blake's Recreation Ground and I was only 10 years old at the time! I went with my sister, who was a few years older. We were right near the front and I remember being so close to Paul ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1964 by Mary Atkinson

My first day at Trowbridge High School was early September 1949. Our class was form 3 - Miss Metheringham was Form Teacher, Miss Dawes was Headmistress. I travelled by train each day with other pupils from ...Read more

A memory of Trowbridge in 1949 by Tessa White

It was a happy childhood, I was born in Etwall in 1954 and our council house in Windmill Road is still our family home. Some of my fondest memories are the simple pleasures of life as a young lad in the 1950/60s. Always keen to get home ...Read more

A memory of Etwall in 1963 by Vince Cooper

Hi, I have pictures of the cottages in Bridge Street ,I think it is 9 BS, where my father's grandmother Emily Pratt lived, she was born in 1856 and died 1914. We have a lot of family ties to this area as most of my father's side ...Read more

A memory of Wickham in 1953 by Marsha Leathley