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My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

I was born in my grandparents' home in Rosedale Avenue in July 1947. I remember Crosby well, the cinema at the top of Endbutt Lane, going to church at St Peter and St Paul's RC Church, seeing the Beatles, and here I am in ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1947 by Ann Hamlet

My name is Judy. During the early 1950s I lived in the National Children's Home in Harpenden. Every year a lovely family used to have me for a holiday, I would so much like to find them. I remember they lived in Gravesend in the ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1953 by Judy Garner

I live in West Sussex [between Brighton and Worthing] now but lived in Northfleet until 1971. Several photos bought back some vivid memories. In 1955 I would have been attending Cecil Road junior school, just off ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1955 by terryyoung101

South Wingfield Church is situated right beside the river and it was reported to me when I was looking round the graveyard (I'm a fam hist fan) that they have /had problems when the river flooded disturbing the graves and ...Read more

A memory of South Wingfield by Clifford Raven

This is another place I rememeber well when I was growing up. My auntie and uncle lived in the village of St Minver, they were called Mr and Mrs worden. My uncle was Ern Worden and he used to dig the the graves, and ...Read more

A memory of St Minver by Miss Patricia

well sorry to say i dont come from Wantage but my mum did so ive had the pleasure of coming to see for myself what Wantage is like but i must say i could move here my mum was at Garston lane school way back in the 30s and also saint ...Read more

A memory of Wantage by fredj6648

Way back in the early 1950's my friends and I went everywhere on our cycles. On one occasion three of us set out from Grays and went across the ferry at Tilbury to Gravesend then down the old A road to Canterbury where we had ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by Albert Wm Gosnall

My Dad, a countryman born and bred, went to London in the late 1920's for work - since there was a huge depression in his type of country work (farm labourer). He met my Mum, and I was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, in ...Read more

A memory of Abbotsley in 1930 by Alan Cross

I used to attend the dances in Tilbury Hospital in early '60s - they were great fun. Does anyone remember them or any of the nurses from that time? I worked in Grays and played darts in the pub that was,Ii think, in ...Read more

A memory of Tilbury in 1960 by Gerry English