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I, along with many schoolchildren who attended Dursley Church of England school in 1955 entered the St. James churchyard through these gates on the way to school five days a week. My memories of the churchyard are of the rose ...Read more

A memory of Dursley in 1955 by Janet Pfenning

My family and I, Ernest Aspey, regularly holidayed here in the early 1950s as my grandfather, Henry Slaughter, was the Assistant Lock-keeper at the time. This photo is significant to me as I was led to ...Read more

A memory of Old Windsor in 1952 by Kate Hill

I lived in morden from 1948-1965 and I have wonderful memories of Morden Park and the bandstand that always had a band paying on Sundays and teas in the big house, not sure what it was called or what it was used for. My mother always ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1950 by Linda Hoddinett

Once the time had come for blackberry picking and whimberry picking, my lovely Uncle Fred took us down the valley roads, to get picking, ready for those lovely pies my grandmother would make. We would climb up beside these waterfalls, ...Read more

A memory of Brynmawr in 1953 by Jackie Haynes

I loved to visit my Aunty May’s house in Rhonnda Terrace, Ferndale. She was my grandfather’s sister, a lovely jolly person always happy, and she loved us kids coming to visit. We had to do a good bit of traveling to get there, ...Read more

A memory of Ferndale in 1958 by Jackie Haynes

The WWI tank was removed because little boys used to enter and use it as a toilet. It exploded when the welder went to work on it because there was still petrol in the fuel tank, not ammunition. The welder flew across Kingsbury and ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury in 1956 by Doug Caton

I remember being sent to Selmes the Butchers to buy my Mother Mrs Dora Maynard, cuts of meat. The floor was covered in sawdust and there was a little cashiers office at the end of the counter. It always had a very friendly ...Read more

A memory of Bletchingley in 1959 by Helen Swabey

This hotel was owned by my mother Patricia Woods till around 1959. Newnham was a busy place then. H G Zeal had a thermometer factory in the High Street. Above the hotel was a dairy farm run by A.Jones (Dean Forest farm). As a ...Read more

A memory of Newnham in 1956 by Rai Woods

The year this picture was taken I lived in a flat above the Rendevous Cafe in the building directly behind the statue.  Owned by Pat and John Harvey, this was home to a newly arrived American family, and this town ...Read more

A memory of St Ives in 1955 by Linda Christie

The Parade, Southborogh, was where my mother, Ivy, did most of her shopping. At that time you could buy pretty well everything you would need in the Parade. Trips into Tunbridge Wells were only taken if there was a need ...Read more

A memory of Southborough in 1953 by Michael Willcocks