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I was born in 1950 in Brampton Grove on Barn Hill and spent a lot of time playing in Barn Hill park especially around the pond. We used to toboggan down the hill in the snow and I remember breaking my front tooth on the rail of ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by daphnelever7

I was born in dorchester way Kenton in 1946 I am still in touch with John Creswell who is now in Perth Australia. Other friends were Norman Kielly now sadly no longer with us and Andy Anderson whom we have been ...Read more

A memory of Severn Beach by John Way

I was born at Kettering General Hospital in 1942. My father was the village policeman in Wilbarston since 1939 and we lived there until I was five years old in 1947 when my father was posted to the other end of the county. ...Read more

A memory of Wilbarston in 1942 by Derek Smith

I too have many happy memories of growing up in Buckhurst Hill in the 50's and 60's. I lived at 25 Loughton Way and went to Princes Road County Primary. There was Mr Carr (a friend of my dads), Miss Gardner, Miss Oram and Mr ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Martin Hough

In reply to Keith Hawkins' appeal to anyone that knew of F.W. Hawkins shop on Hosier Street, Reading, I used this shop during the 1950s as a small boy while spending the weekends with my Nan & Grandad who lived at 61 ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1955 by John Shrubb

Born 1946, lived at Prospect Farm, Hardisty Hill till 1972. Then got married, returned in 1978 to 2 Hardisty Hill, known in them days as the Airey houses. Parents still lived at Prospect Farm. Went to Fewston School then to Otley ...Read more

A memory of Blubberhouses in 1946 by David Marston

At the bottom of Willsbridge and Brockham hills, on a busy Bath to Bristol road, stands an unassuming little building called The Queen's Head public house. Unlike other pubs in the vicinity, The Queen's ...Read more

A memory of Willsbridge in 1860 by Paul Townsend

I have memories of going around in a 'gang'; we called ourselves the Wizbangs and used to frequent the carousel coffee bar on East Hill.

A memory of Dartford in 1964 by Allan Pennell

My family moved to The Avenue in Wembley Park from Liverpool in 1948 when I was just a baby. Early childhood memories include De Marco's ice cream parlor and Wembley Market with it's fish counter. Wally Kilminster's was brilliant. I went with ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1966 by Ian Grierson

On my first day at Corringham School, my mother walked me, aged five, down the long lane from Aisby with our faithful old dog Floss and a playmate, Monica Bramford, a year or so older than me. During assembly I started to cry ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1950 by Valerie Walker