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I remember going on a Friday night with my friends and going in the ninepence seats and calling in the chippy on the way home.

A memory of Caergwrle by Julie Roberts

Here is another tale of recollection of the Wiveliscombe Donkey Derby. In November 1967 we had moved from the New Forest to Uppingtons, 6 High Street Wiveliscombe, a strange 3 floored Georgian house that sat between ...Read more

A memory of Wiveliscombe in 1968 by Julian Bishop

I moved from Egham to Stanwell in 1966 when I was nearly 6 years old. I remember Clare Road shops having a christmas tree on each balcony, it looked like a magical fairy land making Christmas even more special. The ...Read more

A memory of Stanwell in 1966

I was born in The Spinney in 1961 and lived there until I let there at 19. I remember it all with rose tinted spectacles, the community, the shops: Waldens the butchers, Doreens the newsagents, or Hodges across the road, the ...Read more

A memory of Tattenham Corner in 1968 by Jonathan Spencer

John Plunkett, born 1950, raised in Stanley Common, educated at Smalley Common junior school, and Scargill. Worked as an appretice electrician at Rolls Royce in Derby where I qualified and studied at Wilmorton Colledge ...Read more

A memory of Stanley Common by John Plunkett

In all my years of looking at books and memories of Mitcham there is no mention of my mum's coffee stall at Mitcham Cricket green opposite Burn Bullocks pub also known as the Kings Head. ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by Leigh Ellen Inglis

Does anybody remember the big house on the corner of Derby Road, it was at the junction of a main road, the name of which I cannot remember now. We used to call it 'The House Beautiful' whether that was the proper name for it I ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1930 by Ted Benzoni

I am writing to ask if anyone nursing at The Pastures between the 1950s until it's closure in the 1990s remembers my aunt Audrey, from Staveley. I know she died around mid 1990s and she would be late 70s/early 80s in age. I just wanted ...Read more

A memory of Mickleover by petptpt

During my training at the ACC depot in Aldershot I met a beautiful young lady called Debbie Baker. She was my first love. Unfortunally when I was posted to Germany, I never saw or heard from her again. I would love to re-new our friendship even after all these years. David Kelsall

A memory of Frimley Green in 1975 by David Kelsall

It seems my family have routes in Draycott and there are several graves in the cemetery with the Barber name on them.My grandfathers cousin Frederick Barber joined the army and was killed in action on the 27th of ...Read more

A memory of Draycott by dennis131barber