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I remember when I was at Newton Academy School there was a wee tuck shop across the road called Wee Andys. It was the front room of their house and they sold sweets and Iron Bru drinks. The size of the drinks depended on how much ...Read more

A memory of Ayr in 1950 by Andrew Plain

I grew up in Bourne End and went to the Primary School from 1954 to 1960. My father, Dennis Sharley, was the catering manager at the Mill. I vividly remember collecting newspaper to be weighed and sold for a few shillings. Also fond ...Read more

A memory of Bourne End in 1955 by Chris Sharley

I travelled with my father on the Westerham branch-line in the summer of 1959, and as we were the only passengers boarding the empty train at Dunton Green, we were invited by the driver to accompany him and his fireman in the ...Read more

A memory of Westerham in 1959 by Bill Curtis

I remember the toy shop, there was also a dolls hospital at the back of the shop where my beloved dolls were taken to have their broken limbs fixed and also to have the occasional eye replaced.

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1950 by Susan Brainwood

I first discovered Jaywick when I was just ten years old in 1954. I was taken there by my parents in a 1936 Bedford Van to stay with my uncle Bill, aunt Flo and cousin Bill who was 6 months younger than me. This would be ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1954 by James Tyler

I was born at 46 Caster Avenue in 1951, my name was then Sue Riley. My mother was Lilly, my grandparents were Jack and Maud Clare who lived at 17 Caster Avenue. I have happy memories of playing on the bloody field and the reck attending ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1956 by Sue Ford

At the age of 16 I arrived at Druids Lodge to become an apprentice jockey, signed to the trainer Noel Cannon. I had never sat on a horse, having come from the East End of London, but being only 5st 12lb my aspirations were high. ...Read more

A memory of Druid's Lodge in 1957

I remember my father being in this hospital. He had scepticaemia. I was about 5 or 6 and my mother and grandmother were driven from Windsor to Taplow by a neighbour of my grandmother's. I would wait in the car in the ...Read more

A memory of Taplow in 1953 by Kate Arnold

Known as Stocks Hill, on the left of the photo is the Coop Drapery Shop. At the side of the shop was an alley and the Coop Bakery was there. The house facing in the picture was Ted Witneys car repair yard, along High Street was Keffords ...Read more

A memory of Moulton in 1950 by Jackie Tyrrell

I was born in 1947 to Betsy and Leonard Mcgough on Railway Terrace, which I believe is now called Russell Terrace. My mother worked in the cotton mills all her life and retired in a mill at Read. We moved to Moor Lane where we ...Read more

A memory of Whalley in 1957 by Jean Ashurst