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My gran and grandad lived Chopwell and I had great memories of going there in sixties and seventies but they have all died and I have no photos or info on them. My gran was Ellen Mallin (formally Clark) and married to James Mallin and ...Read more

A memory of Chopwell by Walter Mallin

Can I post a few memories of Wimbledon's 4 cinemas. I was born at the Nelson in 1943, and lived locally in Woodside until my early twenties. Just after the war the town had four cinemas. The Odeon in Worple Road was the largest and ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by cliffjharrison77

I lived in South Norwood from 1957 to 1973 and my grandparents lived in Anthony road Woodside. I'm sure the photographs You are showing of the war memorial and horse trough stand on Woodside Green not South Norwood. I know both are SE25. ...Read more

A memory of South Norwood

I was born in Slough in 1961, living there until 1972, after my father, Jim Butler, died in 1970. We then moved to Scarborough in North Yorkshire. My memories of Slough are of living on Norway Drive, Wexham Court estate. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Ken Butler

I was born in1947, I went to the kindergarten on Uxbridge Road where a doctors surgery or medical centre is now I think. From there I attended Woodridings school until about 1955 then on to St John's school in Paines Lane.. Fond memories. John Walker.

A memory of Hatch End by John Walker

My name is Julie and my Mum and Dad are Joan and Tom Street (Mum has passed away). I have wonderful memories of Cuffley and lived there from the age of 5 to 19 years in Homewood Avenue; we moved there in 1963. My Mum loved to ...Read more

A memory of Cuffley in 1970 by Julie Luckin

Doris Allen is my aunt who took enormous pleasure in telling me stories of our family life in the very early 1900's. She had a long and interesting life and died peacfully at ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe in 1910 by John Howard Norfolk

I was a Chiddingfold child. My father was from Milford (Cozens) and his mother and father owned the little newsagents/grocery shop on Manor Road. My mum was from Shackleford (Reffold) and I didn't move far away - Godalming, ...Read more

A memory of Chiddingfold in 1970 by Nicola Cozens

Oh, yes, the number 77 bus, I met my husband on this bus. Seems it was a magic number for meeting future husbands. We used to get off at Granger Avenue, opposite The Swan. We had many wonderful trips on this ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1966 by Susan Hibbert

Ah Whittlebury! Always knew that infamous dump would surface on the www sooner or later. A regime model for any totalitarian state, I still remember the oppression and dehumanisation that prevailed there, where the ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1960 by Simon Gwynn