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I spent most of my childhood at Marbury. My parents moved south from Scotland when I was 5yrs old around 1953. Like many others who lived at Marbury my Father worked at I.C.I. In fact I think at that time Marbury was owned by ...Read more

A memory of Marbury in 1954 by Bill Mac Kenzie

Yes, I remember Alvin Finch. He was an excellent artist. My father supplied the carnival float for the 1953 carnival (I think it was that year I was only 8 at the time). My brother Alan Downes who was 19 years old at the time ...Read more

A memory of Hullbridge in 1953 by Mike Downes

My mother was born in Annfield Plain 1924, her name was Mary Johnson and she lived at 64 Clarendon Place. During the Second World War she was sent to Coventry to help the war effort, working in a factory. She married Arthur ...Read more

A memory of Hanging Stone in 1956 by James Armson

Some of my happiest childhood memories are of the holidays the family spent at Withernsea, staying at my Grandmothers caravan. Her name was Clara Peat and my first visit would have been ...Read more

A memory of Withernsea in 1956 by David Peat

I lived at the Post Office/shop and went to the school which is now the village hall. Opposite us lived two Sicillian families both surnames were Parisi. I was friends with Giovanna, and it was the happiest time of my life; long days and ...Read more

A memory of Combrook in 1958 by Marj Peel

I was only two when I moved here from south London but I remember going to school there just through an alley way off the market square, and headmaster's office was a hut in the playground. Lived in Queens Avenue which were the new ...Read more

A memory of Highworth in 1953 by Janis Read

Beside the strawberry bed grew a large cooking apple tree that produced enormous green apples. We had a variety of both eating and cooking apple trees in the garden, the fruit from which was harvested and then stored ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

The people sitting on the seat in the foreground of this photo are actually my grandparents and aunt, visiting - as they regularly did - from their home in Annfield Plain, Co Durham. This photo was taken a couple of years ...Read more

A memory of Whitley Bay in 1951 by Louise Parkinson

My aunt and uncle used to own a large old house in Mytchett Rd. It had a long driveway leading down to an orchard and fields, where my cousins and I would spend many happy hours. In one field was a large pond with a willow tree on the ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett in 1957 by Julia Clarke

Being able to cross the road into orchards and fields that went right up to Ockendon Station was wonderful. We made camps there and stayed out all day. The May trees we climbed were small enough for kids but high ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1953 by Lucille Blackman