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We moved into a brand new home at 3,Barnfield Wood Close,in 1955. Next door at No 4,theAgombars lived. They built No 1,2,3,and 4,No 5 was built by Mr White in 1959. The houses in Barnfield Wood Road were full of ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Martin Newell

I used to live in Longley Road in the early 60s and remember as a child at the top of Longley Road where the buses parked there used to be a record shop where I would spend my time listening to all the new groups including the Beatles. It ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1962 by David Cleife

Hi, Does anyone remember cowsley farm cornsay, my uncle Harry Blake was farmer there till about 1964 he had retired but lived in a caravan on site till his death.His brother David blake and Harry also farmed Finnings farm Langley ...Read more

A memory of Cornsay by Derick Smith

My great grandfather Vincenzo Dimambro and his brother Salvatore, had an ice cream shop and confectioners at Front Street, Langley Park c.1912/14. I visited recently, the shop is still there but not a confectioners/ice ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park in 1910 by Sharon Shaw

My grandfather, Walter Smith, came up from Bressingham, Norfolk to get work in 1861. He worked at Esh Colliery and lived in what they call the 'tile sheds'. His son Robert Smith was born at Esh in 1862. We have been to Esh, a very nice ...Read more

A memory of Esh by Derick Smith

I lived in Langley Avenue from my birth in 1950 until we moved in 1962. I remember childhood meals at the Queen Vic and the waitresses saying I had better table manners than some of the businessmen. I went to school at Park ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam by David Angus

I was 9 when we returned from Australia in the summer of 1967, we lived at 37 Farley Road after three different houses in Littleheath Road all belonging to friends of my parents, who conveniently were away on holiday by consecutive ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Cooper

My grandad, James Turnbull Smith, lived with his family on Dodds Street on the 1911 census, Bearpark. John Edgar Smith, was his father, brother Walter was a miner like his dad and his brothers and sisters were all at school. ...Read more

A memory of Bearpark in 1910 by Derick Smith

The girls at home through the day or at Ma Petries at night and they were all ladies, Vera, Mavis, Dot, Norma, Iris, Pat . A couple of years later I was a member of the cricket team which won the N C B knock out ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park by David Leckenby

I started work on the coal motor when I was 15 yrs old. The wagon had 4 compartments and so carried 4 loads of coal. When the driver raised the back of the wagon I ran back with my hammer and knocked out the pin holding ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park in 1956 by David Leckenby