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My uncle Jack and aunty Milly lived at Croxton Green, in the first house down the lane of the A49; he was in WW1 and was at the Somme. He used to come down to our house at Spurstow and he went down to the pub with my dad for a ...Read more

A memory of Croxton Green in 1950 by David Stockton

Before we moved to the flats in Cuperhead, we lived in Culzean Place which were very small tin houses /maisonettes. We were a family of 5 at that time till we moved to the flats in Cuperhead, then ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge in 1959

The days when you could let your children out to play and not worry. We used to sneak up in the hole in the fence to play in the big oak tree that sits above the shelter. It was our camp and was called the Five Oaks. We took food ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury in 1969 by Debbie Westwood

I wanted to add my own memories of growing up in New Haw from 1965 until moving again in 1973. The family moved from Richmond (then in Middlesex) to 187 New Haw Road, a detached 3-bedroom house with 1/3 acre of ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1966 by Andrew Taylor

My father was the minister of Redhill Baptist Church, known as the Tabernacle (extreme right of picture) until it was pulled down in the late 1950s and a new church built on Hatchlands Road. While the new church was being ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1959 by Canon David Frost

I lived in Cannock from 1963 to 1970. We lived on the Longford Estate in Leamington Close, we were the first family to live in that house after it was built. I went to Bridgetown Primary School and started year 1 in ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1860 by Agnes Paterson

I live down in New Zealand now but I have seen all the comments etc about old grays as I said all the com I have lived in all those people even down the Exmouth swimming pool and mesons lane I lived there when they ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1944 by Ivan Lane

I remember going hop picking when I was a child. My Grandmother's cottage, one of the cottages called Holly Cottages, ran into the hop garden at the end of the fosel, so we were very lucky as we could go up to my grandmother's ...Read more

A memory of Eridge Green by Lorraine Buchanan

About this time my sister would be 7 and I was 9. We used to swim in Sunbury outdoor pool. Never thought of cold or even fear, because one day we crossed weir as the bridge was down - how I was told off by mummy! We lived in Walton and ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury in 1952 by Val Pitt

My grandparents lived at The Cottage in South View, Uppingham for 40 years from 1908 where he was a well known Director of Music at the public school. From a very early age during the second world war I made my first ...Read more

A memory of Uppingham in 1943 by Barry Sterndale Bennett