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Hello, I often recall living on St Paul's Cray and the happy times at the Church fellowship. The Boys Brigade was my speciality. Well, I am doing fine here in Yorkshire and retired from both Health and ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1962 by Michael Aslin

On 21 April 1943 a Wellington Bomber crashed at Elmley Lovett, following an engine fire and the loss of one wing. I believe the aircraft came down in a field between the village and Hartlebury, opposite the ...Read more

A memory of Elmley Lovett in 1943 by Ian Perry

Lived in Leyton in the 60s - Beaconsfield Rd. Went to Newport Junior School, until 1968, then onto Norlington. Fond memories of long summer holidays, playing out till dark, biking over to the hollow ponds, ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1968 by Paul Callow

North Somercotes during the 50s (1953-1960) My mother, Gwen's side of the family were from North Somercotes. They were called Humberstone. She had 5 siblings, Donald, Percy, ...Read more

A memory of North Somercotes in 1953 by Stewart Mc Caw

The Seagoing Years. I must have left the Army sometime in August or September of 1949, and went back to C.J.King & son, tug owners, to carry on with my job as deck boy. This was not to my ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1950 by Arthur Cottrell

I lived on Dunster Avenue, Morden, then moved to Ash Rd, Sutton, near the Woodstock. Remember well playing water polo for the Sutton Nad Cheam swimming club. Great games on a Saturday night followed by a ...Read more

A memory of Cheam in 1957 by David Hamilton

My family moved to Blyth in the early 1950s, leaving in 1959, just before everything seemed to go wrong. We had the Traveller's Rest pub at the junction of Regent Street and Thompson Street. On the other corner ...Read more

A memory of Blyth in 1959 by Tony Steadman

I remember very well the local people of Pagham as a child growing up on Pagham Road, from the bakers in Nyetimber, George Marchants to Mr Warner the post master, the following down the road to Church Farm we had Simon and Andrew Grout (his ...Read more

A memory of Pagham in 1970

I have recently been doing some research into our family history. I was always told by my mother that her elder sister, Bessie Dubora, died from complications following a tonsilectomy but, having now obtained a copy of the Death ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood in 1920 by Sheila Foreman

A wealth of memories flood in: Saturday morning pictures followed by sausages from Clarkes, the Butchers made by "Uncle" Len Roblett with whom I and my brother were evacuated from London together with his wife "Aunt" Rosie ...Read more

A memory of Marlow in 1942 by Gordon Neighbour