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What memories your comments conjure.  How I loved the 'rec'  as a child.  We started on the 'baby swings' and progressed to the 'big swings' and see-saw and round-a-bout.  The old shelter there was a favourite ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by Janet Lee

I was privately evacuated to Croxton Kerrial with my sister in 1940, we were billeted in a cottage named Woodbine Cottage, this was next to the Bakery. We attended the village school, I still remember some of the ...Read more

A memory of Croxton Kerrial in 1940 by Keneth Harris

I worked in racing stables in Exeter Road. In the spring of 1960 I was injured when a  yearling I was exercising suddenly reared and I 'went out the back door', narrowly missing the edge of the pavement, but hitting my unprotected ...Read more

A memory of Newmarket in 1960 by Eunice Chambers

The little white building in the middle is the Lamb & Flag. I spent many a happy lunchtime & evening there in the '80's. It was a Marstons pub, run then by Don & Sheila Jones, an Irish couple who I think had been ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by bru.enzer

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

I was a pupil at Fairdene School from 1960-1965. I had lived in New York until I was 6, so being a girl with a Yankee accent in a school for young ladies was quite a challenge! The two female headmistresses, Miss Turner and Miss Delmege ...Read more

A memory of Chipstead by familylock

The picture of Church Road where it ran parallel with The Crescent with all those familiar shops brings memories flooding back. I started life at 33 Glebe Road in 1944 and spent 5 happy years there before moving to Madrid ...Read more

A memory of Barnes by Andrew Taft

I stayed in Denhead and used to play down the den almost every day. We used to go to school via the gap either next to Ciff Bells house or the gap next to smiths shop. We used to go along the cliffs behind the scrappiest then straight ...Read more

A memory of Kennoway by John Walker

I was placed in Bramcote 1983 at the age of 9 for a year. I liked it a bit but only as I was getting physically abused by my step mum at home daily,it was a break from the beatings for a week,we would all go ...Read more

A memory of Bramcote by Georgina Brack

THE STIPERSTONES T’was long ago the Ludlow people vexed the Devil very sore He vowed to stone their homes and steeples until they were no more On Cranberries Hill he then collected his apron full of rocks and stones With these ...Read more

A memory of Stiperstones by Angela Bolton