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On the 1887 map of Alconbury and its surroundings, there is a reference to the area between Alconbury and Alconbury Weston on Alconbury Brook as being 'Liable to Flooding'. This would have also applied to ...Read more

A memory of Alconbury in 1950 by Barry W J Chandler

We moved to Dagenham from Plaistow in East London when I was two years old. We moved to Leys Avenue, on the Rookery Farm estate. It was out in the sticks then with the remainder of Rookery Farm still in business with cows ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1950 by Tom Baker

I used to live in the Coach House (now park offices) of Tilgate Mansion, when I was a very little boy. I went to school at Desmond Anderson. The Coach House and courtyard made up four dwellings. The groundsman lived in one, his ...Read more

A memory of Crawley in 1959 by Geoff Frith

We would walk over the mountain, over what we called the racecourse into the forestry from Heath Terrace, Ynyshir to LLanwonno, the best part, I suppose, 4/5 miles walking. Usually on a Sunday, us boys together. I was ...Read more

A memory of Llanwonno in 1957 by Gareth Willi Ams

We were a dyed in the wool London family, some time before World War 11, 1939, we moved from Earlsmead Road to Breamar Road off West Green Road and lived there at number 73 untill 1951, when we moved out into the country to ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1951 by Charles Youens

Does anyone remember the Rake Gate Sunday School, held firstly in 83, Probert Road, the home of Fred and Kaye Cochran, then in the dining hall of the newly opened Rake Gate infant school, where the Headmistress was Miss Daphney ...Read more

A memory of Oxley in 1954 by Heather Graham

The school bell would be rung around the playground. Dinner time. The children taking school lunch would cross to the church hall. My best friend and I would race away up the school brae and further on till we reached 'the ...Read more

A memory of Kinnoull Hill in 1951 by Winifred Lilian Macdonald

My memories of the boathouse and lodge is of my grandfather, Henry Philip Husted, also know as The Admiral. He coached the Cadets rowing eight teams where they took part in the Regatta's at Henley and Marlowe. My ...Read more

A memory of Camberley in 1957 by Gaynor Dabner

This photo brought back memories of when I delivered papers in 1954 along Normady Way down under the rail bridge and along the riverside. Even as a young paper lad I still remember the tranquility of the river in the early ...Read more

A memory of Saltash in 1954 by Maurice Harris

I remember my aunt Bett and uncle Jack Young who lived in Loyd St. The front of house was were you came through the arch under railway line. Bett used to run a little shop out of the scullery at the back. They later worked at the glass ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1950 by James Young