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Uxbridge was blessed with 3 cinemas; The Odeon, the Regal and the Savoy (the oldest of the three it stood on the corner of Vine St and the High St). The Odeon, I think, had the biggest productions as it had a wider ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

My late father, Rev H Roderick Carter, was the Vicar at St Catherines from the early 1950's to about 1968. Living at the Vicarage meant that we had people coming and going all day, everyday. Mum was very ...Read more

A memory of Norwich in 1955 by Richenda Carter

Brought up at 10 Polmuir Road from 1953 till 1962, I have great memories of the xmas times we had there; putting a stocking at the foot of the bed and a pillowslip for the goodies, my two sisters Moira and Mary playing with their ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm by David Millar

I lived in Sandy between about 1963 and 1979 and have seen changes even in that short time. It was a fairly quiet village when we first came in spite of the adjacent A1. I went to St Swithuns school in St Neots Road, then Sandy County ...Read more

A memory of Sandy by Sue Horne

Pontefract a place I call home, my early years were spent Carleton Home's, it would be 58 years before I saw my real Mum Minne Martin from Castleford. from off the West wood Est. in Cutsyke. I was adopted ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract by michaelscorgie7

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

After the war Dad found work as an assistant in a long established family-run department store called Moulds. Situated in Leatherhead High Street, it was an imposing sort of place with double glass doors set well back from ...Read more

A memory of Leatherhead by Brian Simmons

Stumbled across this site and have enjoyed the memories of old barking and the shops it had, thought that I should add my recollections and fill in a few blanks from the sixties and seventies, so starting from the Bull Pub and Heading ...Read more

A memory of Barking by andycairns

My family moved to Cowplain in March 1961. I was 10 years old and went to Stakes Hill Junior School. From there I went to Cowplain Seconday School for Girls from 1962 to 1967. On the corner of Sylvester Road was Pine Tree Stores. I ...Read more

A memory of Cowplain

These were the two weeks that my family would look forward to every year throughout the 60's, for this was the time when we would hire a caravan on the Blue Anchor site. I went back there last week ...Read more

A memory of Seasalter by alistair.burford