Nostalgic memories of Burnham's local history

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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I may be wrong but the entrance on the right looks like the entrance into the Doctor’s Surgery. My Doctor was Doctor Summers, an elderly gentleman (well to me). I can remember him once telling my Mum that Australia needed young people like me ( I think I was 8 or 9 at the time) and wouldn’t it be a good idea to send me! I like to think he was joking but who knows.
I moved to Burnham from a town on the Kent coast where, if you hadn't been to school there you were not worth accepting. The first time I shopped in the village in Burnham a woman spoke to me as I looked in he meat cabinet in Halls, I took no notice not realising she was talking to me. No one had ever spoken to me in a shop before! When I sat at the bus stop by the green another woman spoke to me! I was flabbergasted. ...see more
Does anyone remember the little black taxi-cab and driver? I know that he lived in Windsor Lane and I can remember him bringing my Mum home from hospital in early 1948. I know there was another car used as a taxi driven by a Miss Williams.
I worked here in the middle 40s it was owned by Mr Black?
That shot must be 1968 because that is when the film was released
This town doesn't change from decade to decade
Streets look no bigger or wider now than they did in '66, when I left for Canada
Still the same as when I left in '66
Hadn't changed when I lived there in '63, or when I went back in 2003.
I spent many a happy moment as a schoolboy caddy at BBGC at the end of the 50s and early 60s. It was also a very useful source of pocket money. I regularly caddied for local businessmen, the likes of the MD of Weston's Biscuits, Herbert Greenshield, as well as a number of visitors. The professional at that time was Joe Burnham who was always prepared to buy lost balls we found to help our meagre income. The golf ...see more