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I was married in 1982 and moved into Park Farm (next to the church). There was a school, a church, village hall, a bowling green, two social clubs BNFL & EAT, a railway station and the Women's ...Read more

A memory of Capenhurst in 1982 by Joanna Pemberton

My parents lived in Sackville Street and our home caught fire, destroying everything. We lived there from my being five to thirty. My sister is called Susan and lives in Burnley. Anyone that remembers me please contact me, ...Read more

A memory of Brierfield in 1989 by Linda Gallagher

Ah the memories this invokes in me! We used to come here every week for hay and straw for our goats. Jean and Fred lived here with their two sons. They were really lovely people. One day we went as usual and Fred told me there was a ...Read more

A memory of Moore in 1983 by Caroline Macormac

I used to live in the house opposite the farm called Wall Hill Cottage. I remember picking the damsons from the trees lining the path and sell them to passers by. My parents renovated the cottage from a very run down ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1980

We moved to Isleworth/Osterley in 1961. We bought a maisonette just off Northumberland Avenue, Rothbury Gardens. My first son was 2 weeks old. We lived there for 19 years, by then we have 3 sons and then we moved just across the ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1988 by Pamela Harman (Keene)

I was born in Watford but lived in Bushey from 1964 to 1984 (I now live in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland). I went to Bushey Meads school from 1966 to 1973, and have fond memories of a rural village on the edge of London. As a boy I ...Read more

A memory of Bushey in 1981 by Trevor Lawrence

I have a photo of myself stood on the Commercial par park. I now live on that same car park known now as Travellers Court. Back then Gisburn had 4 public houses, a Natwest Bank, a butchers, a pottery shop, Rose Ally, a post office/grocery ...Read more

A memory of Gisburn in 1989 by Kirsty Hopcraft

I grew up in Witton Gilbert, Rose Lea in the 1980/90s. (not really 'history' I know) But my childhood memories, which always make me think of it as a small close village with so much character, are the milkman, Tommy (I think) ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1988 by Peter Brown

My memories are of working as a night care assistant from 1985 to 1990. Our work pattern was to work 7 nights on! This meant there was time during the shift to study and admire the fixtures and fittings throughout, as ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand in 1985 by Linda Shaul

I think it was about 1986 when I moved to Horton, I was around 7 years old. We only moved from Wraysbury Road near Staines but it may as well have been 500 miles, leaving all my friends that lived all along the road to moving to Horton. ...Read more

A memory of Horton in 1986 by Jon Burkin