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I've just received an e-mail from Ray Cooke today 29/2/2016, i have been in touch with him before and we did remember more or less the same things and people in the home, so after his e-mail i decided to have another look at this site, ...Read more

A memory of Horncastle by Stephen Gilbride

I also remember the unforgettable Joe Wyche the headmaster of Poynton School which I attended in 1958. A baby boomer whose class who had no fixed classroom and had to be situated in the school assembly hall due to huge numbers of ...Read more

A memory of Poynton by driscoll.pamela

Most of my family grew up on tompson road, just off mount road. With the old doctors surgery on the corner. My dad Charlie Parkinson lived at the first house opposite the doctors, no 2. My mum Mary Fisher lived at no ...Read more

A memory of Gorton by pandlleigh568

I was put into the care of the Church of England Childrens Society in 1947. I was sent to Hatton Hall in 1950. The house Master was an evil violent monster name Mr. Silverwood. He was an ...Read more

A memory of Wellingborough by Anthony Messer

I don't have many good memories of Southall. My family lived in Norwood Green when I was born in 1947 and we moved to 31 North Avenue when I was five. We had a street party for the Coronation and my father told me that it was my ...Read more

A memory of Southall by ginacoles

I grew up in Brotton from aged 5 to 20, 1966 to 1981, living on Marshall Drive the whole time. My sister is still there. School was at the old primary school at the top of the hill, daily 1/3rd of a pint of milk, ...Read more

A memory of Brotton in 1973 by Andrew Coverdale

I Lived in Bulford Camp from 1942 - 1958 and attended Wing School. The street the school was on was Bond St. A street of terraced corrigated iron houses, inhabited by civillian workers. My family and I returned in ...Read more

A memory of Bulford in 1958 by Brian Williams

I had the great misfortune to attend St Josephs Primary Roman Catholic School, Stanford-Le-Hope in the early to mid 1950s. The nuns there were far too fond of wielding bamboo canes split halfway down the ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1953 by Peter Clamp

I had just finished adding an Article to somebody else's about Living in Penge. Just as I was about to close I spotted an article by a lady who had lived in Samos Road, Anerley, and who had also attended St Johns ...Read more

A memory of Penge by Anthony Godly

I was in the Gables Boys home from around 1959 until 1963. During my time there I got more beatings than enough from Goslin, I will never forget this man but all memories of him being bad, he was not a nice man. He caned me ...Read more

A memory of Maldon by Peter Martin