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We lived at 18 The Bridle Road (off Foxley Lane) for many years. Attended Collingwood Boys' School (Wallington) - great school for punishments; Woodcote Secondary (like a holiday camp after Collingwood) and Purley Grammar School ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1964 by Douglas Mitchell

I was born at Green Hedges in July 1947, shortly before the advent of the NHS. My parents lived in Lewes and my Grandfather (who paid the bills!) in Horsham. I have sometimes wondered if it was the NHS that finished it ...Read more

A memory of Ditchling in 1947 by Nigel Guilford

As a small child I would be taken to my Gr gr Aunt Ethel Felstead's home at 13 Damgate Street Wymondham. Auntie was my granny's sister and the most giving person you could know. She not only lived in the lovely listed ...Read more

A memory of Wymondham by Anne Parsons

I lived at 17 Fuller Avenue in my early years then moved to the prefabs in Churchill Avenue in the 1960's. Corsham Regis School then Corsham Secondary Modern, Corsham was a busy town in those days.

A memory of Corsham in 1956 by Douglas Johnson

The first house on the left of this picture was my home from 1942, when I was born in the hospital across the road, until 1960. Next door was Miss Colvins Antiques Shop and on the other side was Barrington House that was on the corner of Barrington Road and the Horsham road.

A memory of Dorking

I don't really have a memory but went to visit due to family research. Monks Lane has a plaque inside referring to my gt grandad Arthur William Humphries that lived at Broad Stone Cottage with his wife and children. His wife's family ...Read more

A memory of Corsham by Glynis Jones

I remember being sent to Warnham Court in Horsham as a young child. I lived in London at the time and I really don't know why I was sent there. I have had conflicting information that I may have been sick and was sent to the ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1951

I remember spending many happy times in Shipley, staying with my grandparents, Mr and Mrs A Garland, or Arthur and Edith (Arlie) Garland, at 16, Church Close, Shipley, Sussex. I used to walk the dog with my grandad ...Read more

A memory of Shipley by Jane Vertntenten

I spent four plus very happy years at Warnham Court School. I was asthmatic (still am) and was sent from London with many other children. The Headmaster was Ernest Savage. I have so many fond memories of my ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1958 by Ian Smith

My parents met at a place called Thornypits and married during the war years.They were George and Pam Edwards, he was a local barber and came from Killarney, Southern Ireland, she came from Ditcheat, near Shepton Mallet ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn in 1942 by Pam Mears