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I'm a bit younger than some of you on here but I lived in Walsingham Road (30) , from about 1965 up until the early 80s. Many fond memories there as a child and teenager. I went to Grays Farm school first and then on to Cray ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray by teesside12

I travelled to Collyer's School in Horsham from Holmwood between 1967 and 1972. I would leave my bike at a house around the corner after having cycled from Broome Hall, and hopefully be in time for the 8.32. If I missed that, ...Read more

A memory of Holmwood Corner in 1971 by Jeremy Morfey

My great-great-great-grandmother was Rose Baker, daughter of Amos Baker and Charlotte Broom, I have a photo of them all standing outside Mill Cottage and a photo of workers outside the Mill, one of which I believe is ...Read more

A memory of Felsted by Moira Smith

We arrived in Newcastle in September 1955, from Malay, (Malaysia) where we were housed in that fortification of red brick buildings: Fenham Barracks. After a couple of weeks I eventually became acclimatised ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1954

I was a boy 8 years of age when my family fled the bombing of Belfast to the small community of Cardy which is approx. 3 miles from Carrowdore on the road to Ballywalter. The year was 1940 and times were tough with worries of the ...Read more

A memory of Carrowdore in 1940 by Joe Murphy

If I remember correctly, a white climbing rose grew up one side of the arch and a red on the other. The path continued straight through the archway, and led up the garden to the two wooden sheds at the top of the ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

From birth until I joined the Royal Navy, at 15 years of age, I lived in a very rural area about a mile outside of Sundridge. The cottage we lived in was about 1/2 way between Sundridge and Ide Hill, very near Sundridge ...Read more

A memory of Sundridge by Aubrey Wood

We moved to Chaldon from Purley in 1963 to live at 20 Roffes Lane in Little Bindles, which was the middle of three thatched cottages built in the 1920s by a builder to live in with his houskeeper one side and his ...Read more

A memory of Chaldon in 1963 by David Manley

I moved to Hengoed when I was 6 years old. I lived in Hawthorn Avenue when the houses were first built. The first winter there was very bad, I have not seen a winter like it since, not in Hengoed anyway. It was a close-knit ...Read more

A memory of Hengoed in 1948 by Graham Sanders

I will always have happy memories of spending most of my school holidays with my grandparents, Tom and Emma Howley, in Railway Terrace. I can still remember the smell of the bakery at the end of the road. I know we also had ...Read more

A memory of Blaenclydach in 1949 by Iris Hill