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I have lived all my 60+ years in Burghfield Common and I have seen it totally transformed. I was born and brought up in Three Firs Way, and lived here until 1987 when I got married and moved to Hunters Hill. ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common by Ian Turner

Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common by Andrew Cooper

I remember Wrens Warren camp vividly as I was one of many sent there during W.W. 2. It was a happy period in my life as a young boy in the 1940's. I and my friends spent many hours exploring the surrounding woods, making a dam ...Read more

A memory of Colemans Hatch by John Thomas

My father was a greengrocer and his shop appears in this photograph on the left side going into the Rex Cinema arcade, a butchers shop was on the right side. During the war years and into the very early 1950s, he was the largest ...Read more

A memory of Bridgwater by Claire Allen

As a fully paid up member of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, born in 1947, I've been reading all the stories posted on this lovely website (which - like many others, I suspect - I came across purely by chance). I was born in Perivale ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Peter Taylor

It was the 118 bus Colin. It went from Clapham Common to Mitcham Cricket Green. I also remember well those wonderful Leo's ice lollies. After those awful slabs of lard between 2 wafers that went soggy they were magic - Walls's! My family ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Paul Croxson

My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more

A memory of Tombuie Cottage by Drew Ramsay

I was born in the front bedroom of 3 lands bury Crescent in 1952. Loved the estate, our inter road football matches and playing on the old puff and billy railway track. I used to go fishing and swimming in the pontoon which was ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by johngriffiths19

My grandparents lived in the school house in New Micklefield. I can remember Jack's shop across the road (Great North Road), which was a wooden structure that you climbed up to by steep steps. This was just to the side of the ...Read more

A memory of Micklefield by jenf2000

Oh yes I can recall this photograph really well. I was born in Logan Road, just off Preston Road and my mother and family visited Wembley High Road to frequently. Just before I married in 1971 the site of ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by ribblehead