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My name is Anne Baker and I started school in 1953 and I left when I was 16 years old. Is the school still open? I enjoyed during art lessons in the tower. The school clothes always looked smart and we wore gloves. I used to live near Bushey Park.

A memory of Bushey Heath in 1953 by Anne Baker

One set of grandparents lived at the top of Little Bushey Lane, on Elstree Road. The other lived near the bottom of Little Bushey Lane. Whenever I would visit, on school holidays, I had to share my time between them, so I spent ...Read more

A memory of Bushey Heath by Kathy Bousquet

I was born at Newton On Ouse in March 1928. At the age of five I attended the local school whose headmaster was Alf Bradbury. Also at the age of five I began visiting Village Farm that was owned by Mathew ...Read more

A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1930 by Guy Jefferson

I have fond memories of this part of the town - I worked in Cawdells as a Saturday girl on the switchboard - great fun when you're 15! My mum bought all our bedlinen and other useful items in their January sales. My teens were spent ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1963 by Tricia Priestley

My parents (Eirwen & Haydn Williams) moved to Aberbargoed from Gilfach to take over the newsagents in 1967 next to the New Duffryn pub when I was 11. Being a Bargoed lad I was very apprehensive about moving over to "the ...Read more

A memory of Aberbargoed in 1870 by Gareth Williams

As my mother father and sister lived in Queens Road, Thames Ditton, there local maternity hospital was Bearsted Memorial Hospital which is where I entered the world on a foggy night in late October 1958. My father worked at the ...Read more

A memory of Hampton Wick in 1958 by Rob Jackson

I lived at 19 Amberwood Rise, New Malden 1964-1970 with my parents. Before that we lived above the What O café , next to Champions Timer. I went to Bushey Junior School then on to Burlington Secondary School. Both my ...Read more

A memory of New Malden by yoco63

I remember travelling from Dover to Folkestone pool when I was about 7 years old. We thought it was very exciting, and I can remember queuing at the turnstile to get in and where the temperature of the water ...Read more

A memory of Folkestone by Karen Elleray

My name is Richard Chivers and I was born in 1961 at Sycamore Close off Park Avenue Bushey, my first school was Highwood junior my teacher was Mrs Brickhill, funny how you can remember someone's name over 50 years ago. My mates I ...Read more

A memory of Watford by lorrick

I would walk up South road down the duel carriageway and up Horndean hill to our little school . In the village we past a shop that I remember smelt of paraffin. It was ran by Bossy Catchlove you name it she had it. I loved my childhood in ...Read more

A memory of Horndean by maureen-slaughter