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Our family lived at Lightwater (1 High View Road) ; I passed 11 plus and was sent to Frimley And Camberley County Grammar School, starting in Sept. 1959. One of the first things we had to do was to get the uniform. We went ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by tobypaws2002

                                    Wrottesley Park 92 Wrottesley Park, it was a nice address, a suggestion of elegance perhaps, a hint of grandeur even. However there was nothing grand about the place we lived in even though ...Read more

A memory of Wrottesley Park in 1952 by Kathy Daulman

CHAPTER TWO School Years - Convent of the Visitation 1939-1945 One’s school years leave an indelible impression on one for good or bad. My views over these years in this regard, have modified considerably. ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1940 by Howard Johnson

Being born and brought up in Flowery Field, Hyde was the centre of the universe for us as children. After shopping on Hyde market we would turn the corner and enter into the world of this picture. On the right of the picture, in ...Read more

A memory of Hyde in 1960 by Dave Davies

In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more

A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by John S. Batts

I was evacuated with my mother to Sandiacre in 1944 at the age of 5. I would be so interested to find out the name of the road that we stayed at and any history of the lady who rented out her room and use of ...Read more

A memory of Sandiacre by Elizabeth Holworthy

One of my first memories was hiding underneath the sideboard in the dining room with silver ornaments on our heads; my sisters Judy, baby Michele and myself, Deirdre, listening ...Read more

A memory of Holywood in 1930 by Deirdre Sarnitz

Hi Guys , Yet another piece of nostalgia from VickyB , I was thinking the other day about the treatment of ailments , from years gone by and the and the things we were led to believe by our parents , grandparents aunts and ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

I remember these shops so well from my childhood. The first on the left was a newsagent the next a baker at the other end of the Broadway was the post office. My brothers,my sister and I passed them every school day on our way to ...Read more

A memory of Beddington by Chris Scott

Gran and Grandpa Lazenby had a grocery shop here. I believe they also had a café next door but I can’t remember that. I do remember looking through the window in the back of the shop and seeing my Mum slicing bacon ...Read more

A memory of Somerton by Denise Lazenby