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Getting my haircut at Richards Gents hairdressers upstairs in the Coop Building - accessed via a winding staircase and once there a row of Barbers Chairs. The open space of nearby Queens Square with its Fire Station Health Office ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1950

I was born in Straight Road Harold Hill in 1943 and in 1947 we moved into the Prefabs across the road to Holly Road which was just off Briar Road, these Prefabs which I believe were errected by German Prisoners of war were ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1950 by Alan Reeves

I was born at 15 Currie Street in a modern prefab which had electric lights when most other houses still only had gas. We had an inside toilet and bathroom luxuries that others could only dream of then. At one end of Currie Street ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1957 by Michael Box

My name at the time was John Hancock and I lived in Stakes Hill Road, Waterlooville, Hampshire before Philip Road was built. With fields opposite my home and the Convent Church along the way, it was so idyllic. The horse and cart ...Read more

A memory of Cowplain in 1952 by John Launay

I lived at 3 Barnfield Wood Close, Park Langley. Waylett's lived just round the corner at Barnfield Wood Road. They had three daughters who I was very interested in, I was between 9 and 18 at the time. The ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1956 by Martin Newell

I was born in Hunterswood Farm Bungalow in 1948. The midwife was Nurse Caines. My mother was Kathleen Joyce Brown (nee Lintott) and father David Brown. I had then, 2 brothers, David and Leslie and my sister Susan. Twin ...Read more

A memory of Dunsfold in 1956 by Ann Kelly

Our family had returned to England at the very end of 1948 from a short overseas BOAC posting in Montreal. My father, a BOAC pilot, was due to begin training to fly Boeing Stratocruisers at Filton in 1949, and along with ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1951 by John Liles

I was born and lived in Chequers Lane Walton in 40s. Our house which was No 74 was the Police House and I used to cycle to St Hildas School at Tadworth, run by Miss Adams who lived in house opposite Chappell's ...Read more

A memory of Walton on the Hill in 1950 by Alan Cooper

My brother and I were sent to Reedham School in 1954. We were there for two years, probably the worst two years of my life, despite being put into care at the age of five and continuing until sixteen. I was known as Mathews 2 or RS ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1954 by Ashley Mathews

1955 DATE WITH DIANA BARON,AND I MESSED UP,GOT INTO THE CARLTON AND FORGOT TO BUY HER TICKET,SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL GIRL WHOM I MET AT THE OTHER CINEMA,THE WALTON VALE,WE DID LIKE EACH OTHER AT THE TIME,BUT I BLEW IT,MY NAN ...Read more

A memory of Walton in 1955 by Terry Sergeant