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I lived in Bradford from birth 1944 until 1965 when we moved to Canada. So I have lots of memories. One of them was on Saturday mornings in the 50's walking to town down Manchester Road. There were so many shops to look in and ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by Sharon Noble

The Morris car depicted in the photograph was overhauled and bodied by my late father, Arthur Parker, in 1951-2. He had removed the body from a c1937 Morris 8 van, overhauled the mechanics and the chassis, and built from scratch a new ...Read more

A memory of Duston in 1951 by Claire Allen

I'm have somewhat distant relationship with Lee Green: My grandparents owned a greengrocers in Weardale Road and I was told that there were soirees at the Turpins where Fred Turpin used to play the piano ..... a lot of Chopin I ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham by Geoff Strowger

I have no personal memories of Eversley but my father Percy Norman Pearson born 1910, who died 2003, talked fondly of holidays spent in Eversley with an aunt whose surname was Leversuch when he was a ...Read more

A memory of Eversley in 1920 by Jan Pearson

To the right of the photograph is a driveway into the interior of the original castle that was the entrance to Castle Farm operated by F.Elms & Sons and in particular my uncle Harry Elms. He bought the Farm in about 1930 having ...Read more

A memory of Cooling in 1955 by Jerry Furley

My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction company. ...Read more

A memory of Glen Affric in 1949 by Denman Lalonde

Every now and then I reminisce and take a trip down memory lane, of my childhood days growing up in Newarthill on Burnside Rd. I remember Tosh McGarry and I going to Father Gillan's jumble sale and buying an old fox fur ...Read more

A memory of Newarthill by Peter Laird

I was born in 1961 in Thorpe Combe hospital in Walthamstow and brought up by my parents in Forest Edge Buckhurst Hill. I consider myself very privileged to have lived there for the first 26 years of my life and have ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Andrew Evans

In 1969 my friend Nick Martin, who lived in Hawkhurst, and I, hitch-hiked across to the Taj Mahal in India. Sadly I have lost touch with Nick and I wonder whether any of your contributors may be able to help us get back in contact again. John Hague

A memory of Hawkhurst by John Hague

I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Philip Yorke Edgell