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I lived in Glanville Drive for the first part of my life from 1947. Out nearest post office was in Woodhall Parade, just over the railway bridge in Wingletye Lane, One thing that sticks in my mind is that ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by John Fricker

1958/9 Stationed in the Radio School RAF Compton Bassett I met my first true love Celia from Edinburgh. Always wondered what happened to her after we last met RAF St mawgon,just before I was posted to Germany!

A memory of Compton Bassett by John Branston

I’ve just found this website, I had already spoken to Thomsons after finding out about case and seeing it in the daily record. I had a terrible abusive childhood and I was sent to Fornethy several times from 1971 - ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by Sandra Arnott

Grew up in Oakhanger and enjoyed the freedom of exploring the common in the centre of the village. Some good times were had sledging down a hill on the common in the snow. Also, finding and catching tadpoles in the pond ...Read more

A memory of Oakhanger

When my family moved here I was only 7 and there was only a cottage on the left at bottom of Brae and a row of four terraced houses on the left, they were holiday homes for my grandmother and her sisters. We lived there with ...Read more

A memory of Mid Calder by Doreen Knox

I have such good memories of Much Hadham. My grandparents, Mr & Mrs Morris lived in a lordship cottages just outside of Much Hadham village - the house went with my grandfather's job which was a gardener for Doctor & ...Read more

A memory of Much Hadham by Rosemary Withers

I lived in the house at the back of the picture in the 1950s. The small upstairs window at the front was my bedroom. In the winter my mum sent me across to Mr. Davey the greengrocer (next to the post office) for wooden orange ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Raymond Fisher

My father, a post office engineer, was transferred from Stoke Newington to the Larkswood exchange in 1936. I was seven years old when we moved to 49, Malvern Avenue. I first attended Thorpe Hall school, then later Selwyn Avenue ...Read more

A memory of Highams Park by Frank Cann

My family used to stay at Elm Cottage on Trewoon Road in Mullion for many of our summer holidays during the 1970's. The cottage belonged to a Mrs Kent, known to us affectionately as Aunty Ellie, who at that time lived in Caerleon in Wales ...Read more

A memory of Mullion

I spent my first period of nursing training in this hospital (now converted into luxury apartments I believe). I can remember its endlessly long corridor with wards off, left and right and flights of stairs to the upper ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by Sue Ambrose