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I remember when I first moved to Aveley, I was 7 years old. My nan lived in the prefabs and my mother, brother and myself moved in with her until they were demolished when I was eight years old. Then we moved into Hall Avenue, ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1960 by Marina Lewis

I grew up in one of the bungalows at the foot of One Tree Hill and often spent weekends and school holidays with the Keeper's children, Peter and Jonathon Scott.  One Tree Hill was a fascinating place to spend our weekends and ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1966 by Stephen Dann

The best years of my life. I was happy and content and had lots of friends. My father was stationed at Tern Hill but we moved off base at Boscobel Road to a bungalow he built called "Green Haven" ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1969 by Steven Loska

My family moved to Withybrook in 1960, to No 2 All Saints Close. I met my future wife there she lived in No 3. I was 14 years old and she was 11. Mary was born in the woodyard on the way to Wolvey. My brother and I used to ...Read more

A memory of Withybrook in 1960 by Peter John Buckby

My grandparents lived in the large house that you can mainly see on the bridge (with the three windows on the second floor) throughout the 1950,s and 60's. I was told that Mary Queen of Scotts made her way through the basement of ...Read more

A memory of Ripon in 1965 by Dawn Paton

During the early 1960s my Aunt Bella and Uncle Alf lived down Ridway lane in a bungerlow called Fernleigh. It was detached, I suspect that it was part of field as the property had a five bar farm gate. Looking out of the ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1960 by Doreen Stockton

I loved reading the lovely memories of Kilburn. My Mother and father lived there in 1967 and some of their stories are lovely. I know this is a long shot but can anyone remember a bank advert in June 1967 for a bank offering to "Own ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1967 by Mary Coffey

My name is Peter Weeks and I lived on Llanwoanno Road. Every Sunday I would cross this bridge with my elder brother Kenneth, on our way to the Baptist Chapel. This was the time of steam trains. We could hear the trains comming ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash in 1964 by Peter Weeks

After leaving school I worked for a short time at Walsall Co-op in Bridge Street. One of my colleagues was a rather raffish young gentleman and 'man about town'. One day he invited me, which I thought a great honour, to have ...Read more

A memory of Walsall in 1962 by Michele Alberto

Sixty-four years after the photograph was taken, little had changed when my father Donald Macdonald a resident of Bridge of Allan was buried at the Logie Kirk graveyard just the Ochil's side of the Craig. My ...Read more

A memory of Bridge of Allan in 1963 by Alastair Macdonald