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I remember going to Bell Street around 1967/8 to see Michael Aspel open "Key Markets" which was a supermarket of sorts, and would be on the left-hand-side of this picture (I think either next door to the Co-op, or may have occupied the ...Read more

A memory of Wigston in 1967 by David Harriman

I lived in Bushey and then in Oxhey Village for all of my childhood, first in Aldenham Road, and then in Oxhey Avenue, and later in Villiers Road. In the early 70's I was living in Oxhey Avenue and my friend Annette lived in Woodwaye ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1974 by Jackie Brewer

I attended Brown Rigg from 1964 to 1966. As I recall, Bent Toe got stuck in a mud hole and was that exhausted with trying to get out it was kinder to have him put to sleep as the stress and strain on his heart, he was a big horse. I ...Read more

A memory of Bellingham in 1964 by Derick Stewart

My name is Peter Martin i was born and brought up in Berry Lane between Samuel and Emanuel roads. I was born in Billericay hospital on the 11th May 1952 i attended langdon Hills Primary and then Laindon High Road. I remember Mr Foy in ...Read more

A memory of Langdon Hills by peajay52

I lived on Clee Hill as a child and they were the best years of my life, the freedom and fun we had riding our bikes, it was so safe, I could see 7 counties from my bedroom window.

A memory of Clee Hill by Steve Thornton

Do you remember those meetings on a Sunday morning when the cycle club turned out for a day trip to Hastings or Dymchurch, maybe to Rye, etc. In charge was Harry Falvis, (not sure of the spelling), a short stocky man from the ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1950 by John Ford

I lived at Welling and went to Little Danson School and Hook Lane School. When I was 11 years old in 1942 I went to Westwood Girls Secondary School until 1945. I was then 14 and could have gone to work, ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Leonard Field

I was born and lived at Longdon Green. I started work at West Cannock Colliery No.5 in 1951. I used to cycle to Rugeley every morning and store my bicycle in Jack Hill's shop doorway along with other miners' bikes, then catch the green ...Read more

A memory of Rugeley in 1951 by Carl Linney

When I lived in Wokingham in the 1950s, I remember a double fronted cycle shop on Denmark Street (next door to the entrance to some sort of meeting hall?) - you can just see part of the hanging sign for the shop in ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham by John Buck

Sorry Glenn it was not you and it isn't a tricycle but Lindsay Reynolds riding a two wheeled commando bike bought by his father Ken through Exchange and Mart,following his brother Malcolm on an old Raleigh which was far too big for him and ...Read more

A memory of Llandogo by macreynolds18