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When I was a teenager back in the late 1950's I loved travelling by trollybus to explore Woolwich. At the time I lived at home in Welling but Woolwich always had much more of interest to offer. There was the endless ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich by Bernard Schofield

In 1954 Roundway was the site of the Royal Army Pay Corps Training Centre. Nothing now remains of this except a plaque erected by the local council to commemorate the fact that thousands of young men conscripted for National ...Read more

A memory of Roundway in 1954 by John Pettitt

The memory from 1948 reminded me of my first and ALMOST ONLY experience of a cell. My parents were friends of Cliff Hayward of Bolton on Dearne and his family. Cliff was a Police constable on the ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe by Terence George Flinders

When the Second World War was declared, my family consisted of Mum and Dad, my elder brother Bob and my baby sister Ann. I was four, Bob was eleven and Ann was three. My father was a staff sergeant in the RAMC. ...Read more

A memory of Penton Grafton in 1940 by David Fort

Although born in Scotland, my earliest memories are of Berwick upon Tweed. This was because my father was posted to the Barracks as Pipe Major in the KOSB Depot there. Our married quarters, although in Ravensdowne, ...Read more

A memory of Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1930 by Allister Smith

My Mother owned the Kings Head and i worked in the reastaurant with her she done all home baking and had Eton College lads and there familys eating there,also a great trade was the Army lads from both barracks,I married one in 1956,we ...Read more

A memory of Windsor in 1948 by Dorothy Wade

Teresa Clarke's memory reminded me of the flooding of Jan. 1953. I was 9 years old and living in Gwynne Road with my folks. We were boarding at No 44, owned by Mr and Mrs. Carr. They played Crib and he polished the brass in the house ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1953 by Brian Reynolds

Used to go swimming every day in the Barracks when the Irish Guards were there.

A memory of Caterham in 1972 by Marie Petretta Clark

Dad was in the South Staffs; we had many many happy years living in the barracks. I had 4 brothers then, sadly only two now. So many happy memories always lots to do, places to go and mischief to get up to. ...Read more

A memory of Whittington in 1956 by Michael Smith

The first half of the building with dormer windows (from the left of the picture) and where the Job Centre is situated today, was a Temperance Hotel. Bridport had over 60 public houses at the turn of the twentieth century and nine ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1890 by Andrew Evans