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Following my basic training at Crownhill Barracks Plymouth in June 1951 I was transferred to Plasterdown Camp to complete intensive training until October 1951. I was in the Wiltshire Regiment and as I came from ...Read more

A memory of Tavistock in 1951 by Brian Timbrell

Teresa Clarke's memory reminded me of the flooding of Jan. 1953. I was 9 years old and living in Gwynne Road with my folks. We were boarding at No 44, owned by Mr and Mrs. Carr. They played Crib and he polished the brass in the house ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1953 by Brian Reynolds

In 1954 Roundway was the site of the Royal Army Pay Corps Training Centre. Nothing now remains of this except a plaque erected by the local council to commemorate the fact that thousands of young men conscripted for National ...Read more

A memory of Roundway in 1954 by John Pettitt

I visited Grange Farm on a week's holiday with my school in 1960. It was my first real holiday, away from the streets of St Helens, Lancs. We slept in what looked like barrack rooms with about a dozen bunk beds which looked like ...Read more

A memory of Chigwell in 1960 by Steve Greenall

I was with the USAF at RAF Sturgate and was transferred to East Kirkby in Mar 1957. I worked in the personnel office and lived in the barracks that was located where the turkey farm is now. Many happy memories...the Red Lion ...Read more

A memory of East Kirkby in 1957 by Ray Hunter

I was stationed at Parsons barracks for two weeks before we moved to Blackdown camp for basic training. I did a course on office work and did touch typing which lasted for ten weeks. During ...Read more

A memory of Deepcut in 1952 by Les May

Further memories include attending Mattins at St George's Garrison Church, just across the lines from my RASC barracks; running the Scout Group there in the Garrison Church Hall, as well as the Cubs, and then a note being ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by Graham Vahey

This image is actually taken from Deepcut Bridge Road, around the junction of Woodend Road, with the barracks away to the left. Blackdown Road is a few hundred yards behind the photographer here. The shops in view are now a hairdressers, and fast food places!

A memory of Frimley

I arrived in Gravesend in mid 1947 as advance party to re-open "Milton Barracks". Our first night out was a walk around King St to see what we could find. It didn't take us long to find the pubs in Gravesend or to find the Prom.  We ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1947 by Verdun Lowe

In the late 1950's I was the village policeman at Great Waltham.   The police house was the last two-storied house at the Barrack Land end of Cherry Garden Road with my 'office'being in the kitchen and the tsble there was my ...Read more

A memory of Great Waltham in 1959 by johnbutcher