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The picture is of the old East Surrey Hospital and I can remember my mother being an in patient there for many weeks around 1954--- as children we were not allowed in to the wards and I can remember waving to my Mum through a ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1967 by Sally Pashby

I was in hospital from January 1963 for 6 months to have my right leg stretched, it didn't totally work, but it was in 1966/1967 when I had to have several operations for the other leg. Although it was my first time away from home everyone ...Read more

A memory of Alton in 1963 by poppy.deville

Does anyone remember Davidson Road Secondary Modern School? This was late 1950's pre co-education days so although housed in the same building, girls were upstairs and boys downstairs. Seperate playgrounds and 'never the twain ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1958 by Francis Beck

I used to live at North Lodge, which I believe is now a Barclays Bank. I went to school at St Francis in Crawley, then to Collyers in Horsham, then to Ifield Grammar School. I moved to Canada in 1959, and have been here ever since. ...Read more

A memory of Three Bridges in 1953 by Al (Alfred) Manzoli

My parents bought Strathmore which was a large house with 4 1/2 acres of garden just opposite the village shop on the road to Charlwood. We lived there as a family until about 1965, Peter Butterworth was a neighbour. Both my sisters Anne ...Read more

A memory of Ifield in 1950 by John Bass

I lived in Harcourt Road, there was seven children. I went to Napier Road Junior School, I also went to Fyfield in Ongar, Essex and then to Holbrook Road Secondary. At 15 I joined the Merchant Navy.

A memory of West Ham in 1949 by Victor Lawes

In truth, I do not remember anything before 1948 when at the age of five I started at Moorside Primary School. I was born in 1943 and brought up in a small rented house, number 26 in King Street, situated between Faifield Road and ...Read more

A memory of Droylsden in 1943 by Peter Young

My mother and some of her family were sent/lived in Fyfield Ongar for a short time during the Second World War. They moved there from West Ham in London. Her only memory of where she lived is that it was a large house with swords ...Read more

A memory of Fyfield in 1940 by Vivien Holden

My sister and I, Margaret and Maureen Grieve, were evacuated to Brynamman. I lived with Nellie, Stanley and Menna Thomas in the then new council houses. My sister stayed with the Pughs in Faifield House. My brothers joined us, Ken ...Read more

A memory of Upper Brynamman in 1940 by Margaret Parker

My mum's aunt and uncle, Tom and Polly Stepney, lived in Three Bridges on what was always referred to as "the farm". A couple of years ago I visited with my husband and we tried to find where it was. After lot of searching we ...Read more

A memory of Three Bridges in 1940