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Your memory from Clive. Was that Clive the Co-op milkman?  I lived in Fortescue Road during the 50s and 60s and I used to wait on the corner of Fortescue Road and Watling Avenue early in the morning waiting for Clive to come along and, ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1960 by Ian Stephens

About the time I was born in 1939, I had two aunts who were nurses in Claybury Hospital. Several years later, in the early 50s, I used to help the milkman from Drapers Farm and one of our biggest ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1963 by Michael Prudence

Dear readers, My name's Steve Hopkins and I was born in Llwynypia hospital in late 1957. My mother's a Liverpudlian evacuated during wartime to Malpas in Cheshire and my father’s from Rhydfelin near Pontypridd. I was readmitted to ...Read more

A memory of Llwynypia in 1965 by Steven John Hopkins

Between 1964 and 1966, I used to travel by bus from Haywards Heath to school in Burgess Hill, going over Keymer crossing twice a day. If we were lucky, a train would be coming and we would get to see the crossing in action. ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1966 by Mike Brown

I have lived in Saffron Walden all my life of 50 years. I have many great memories of Saffron Walden. My greatest memories are of the time we had at the locally named Paddler. The Paddler was at the top end of Rowntree Way. The area ...Read more

A memory of Saffron Walden in 1965 by Ian Lench

This photograph was obviously taken when the road bridge was nearing completion in 1961. My husband grew up nearby, and tells some gruesome stories about the plague of rats they experienced when the undergrowth was being ...Read more

A memory of Saltash in 1961 by Alyson Herbert

Hi there I remember the day that this engine arrived in the rec. It was a source of great entertainment for us youngsters particulary, as originally everything was accessible. I remember climbing up on the footplate and seeing a ...Read more

A memory of Daventry in 1965 by Dave Cairns

Walking up Vennel Street, Dalry one afternoon I was approached by a pal's dad, Jimmy Morrison. Jimmy, I'd heard, was putting a junior football team together. He crossed the road towards me and said: "Fancy joining my team? We're applying ...Read more

A memory of Dalry in 1966 by Norman Hunter

I was a child that lived at the 'Sister Butler's orphanage' in the early I960s.  This message is to anyone that was also at the orphanage at that time, particularly Alison Burbidge, as I have read her account ...Read more

A memory of Hinton Martell in 1960 by Mark Smith

Living on the outskirts of a large Midland city, and having Welsh parents, a visit to Sebastopol was also exciting and eventful. My grandmother had sold Hill Cottage and bought 21 South Street, which was more manageable, as ...Read more

A memory of Sebastopol in 1962 by Jeff Evans