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What I am about to write was once classified information; but due to the BBC documentary I can disclose and inform you that I had a brother in law who is dead now, but I recall things of which he was to tell me as in ...Read more

A memory of Monk Sherborne by Roland Mitchell

1936 - my father Ernest Eldridge and mother Violet and myself Barbara moved from Dorchester on Thames to Drayton St Leonards. My mother's friend May Rusher (wife of Frank Rusher) arranged for the cottage next ...Read more

A memory of Drayton St Leonard in 1930 by Barbara Gibson

Ivy Myers. I wonder how many people from Chalfont remember the "Rose and Crown", a Benskins pub. My father owned it from 1946 until 1950. There was also the “Kings Head” which was on the corner of Joiners Lane. Of ...Read more

A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1949 by Ivy Jones

I used to live in Niton Road, Richmond and used to catch the bus at the top of the Gas Works bridge and get off at the Quadrant, from when I worked 1961-1967 until I married and moved to Kent late 1967. I worked at a ...Read more

A memory of Richmond by Linda (Walden)Bexx Stallon

Dear Susan, I think that I was great friends with your mum and dad, I was with him when he met your mum at the Old Leathern Bottle at Warfield, she was in the Land Army and he had just been discharged from the Navy, we joined together. We ...Read more

A memory of Ascot in 1942 by Ronald Ponsford

Born in Mill Lane in Broughton Astley on 3rd May 1926, I started school at B/Astley C of Primary in 1931 as a five year old. We would be 'called to school' by the ringing of the bell housed in the ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by Reuben Reynolds

My name is Brian Spray and I first saw Bretby Hall when I was 4 years old. I contracted Infantile Paralisis (Polio) in 1944 and was referred to see the lady doctor who practiced at Bretby, Dr Greason and Mr Lund. I spent 6 ...Read more

A memory of Bretby in 1948 by Brian Spray

My parents worked for Mr & Mrs Agar, Beechwood, Lavington Park, Petworth, Sussex. Mrs. Agar's name was Barbara. They had a town house near Berkeley Square, London W.1. I remember living there more than in Sussex. ...Read more

A memory of Lavington Park in 1949 by Eithe Vinton

I spent most of my childhood in and out of the hospital and have such wonderful happy memories. I was usually on Charlie Mac ward (Charles McAllister). I remember Sister Bromley (spoke to her only a few of years ago), Dr Burston and ...Read more

A memory of Heswall by Jane Ballinger

Hello. This is not so much a memory as a request. After the war my dad and mum moved to Cwm Penmachno from Liverpool with my younger sister and myself. I was four and a half years old. My dad had a job driving a motor car for a ...Read more

A memory of Penmachno in 1951 by Stanley Fletcher