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I LIVED IN Scotland Bridge Road, New Haw, just down the road from West Byfleet. I attended WB primary school and then briefly the secondary school before I went to Woking Grammar. These were very happy days. I worked from ...Read more

A memory of West Byfleet by tonyvermot

My father's mother came from Henley with strong family roots in Highmoor Cross, Shiplake and Rotherfield Grey's. My great grandparents lived at 2 Queen Street and had a huge family of 10 or 11 children in what seems today ...Read more

A memory of Henley-on-Thames by lynnie.lw28

My father William Whigham ( originally form West Calder) moved through to live and work in Twechar ( he might have stayed with relatives in Kirkintilloch) in 1926. He worked in the pit but as it was the General Strike then I am not sure what ...Read more

A memory of Twechar by j.whigham

I am responding to P Mara, I knew a Joe Mara and was a friend of Mick Budd, he was a really pleasant guy, friendly and open. I lived in West Farm and knew Graham, Martin and Roy well. I live in London with my wife and ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead by jmck5

We moved to Ickenham in 1950, I was three, we lived in Greenacres Avenue, only partially completed then, a cowfield next to our house to where Breakspear Road South is now, St George's Drive was not built. We could see the GWR ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham by anthonytr7

Though I was actually born in Bushey, Herts., ( I believe that was where the maternity hospital was in 1939.) Melrose Gardens was a cul-de-sac of about thirty five houses and at least half the houses had ...Read more

A memory of Edgware by hrohrer

I began my working life as a junior clerk at the Wood Green Branch of the National Provincial Bank in September 1949. my starting pay was £2.13.6d a week. In those days we used dip in pens and bank statements were typed on a typewriter, ...Read more

A memory of Wood Green

I didnt live in West Auckland but had a lovely holiday there in 1962. I stayed with a Mrs Vart at Holme Mill in Spring Gardens. I can remember going to the milking shed for a jug of fresh milk for the breakfasts and collecting the eggs.

A memory of West Auckland

I remember as a child being taken to see father Christmas in the coop which was in west street where primark is now. You walked through a sort of corridor which was beautifully decorated to get to Santa's grotto and I remember thinking this was totally magical.

A memory of Reading by c.sturgess

I attended London Road school from 1956-1962. I can remember Mr Smith and the after school stamp club, also Miss Brown, Miss Holloway, Miss Oakley, and Mrs Parrot . When I was in Miss Browns class, some of the other ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill by annettelat1972