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I was evacuated at the age of 4 yrs with my mother, Catherine and younger brother Alfred. We had been buried alive in a shelter, in Upton Park, East London and only saved when someone heard my mother ...Read more

A memory of West Hendred by Stanley Brand

I have a print of this view in my study. My grandparents lived in the second cottage up from the church and my father was born there in 1902. My grandmother died in 1939 and my grandfather, who served in the Boer ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1944 by Des Sturges

My mother came from Dormanstown and my grandparents, Ellen and James Mitchell, lived at 67, Broadway West. This was a Dorman-Long house as my grandfather and an uncle worked for the Dorman-Long Steel Works. I spent many a ...Read more

A memory of Dormanstown in 1950 by Elizabeth Cannon

Wow...I used to live above Brants around 1970 ish. My mum and dad (Jean and Norman) used to help run the place for Stanley Brant who owned it. His brother was Alan who used to live down the road. I also did a paper round It was a lovely ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon by Toby Kift

I have so many wonderful memories of growing up in Quarry Bank - from moving into the brand new 'fashion houses' when I was 3; four of us on a motorbike, with me wedged between mum and dad (Wes ...Read more

A memory of Quarry Bank in 1966 by Clive Archer

This picture brings back so many memories; just a simple shot of the square in Maesteg, but if you could move that tree way over on the left you would see my grandmother's house at 5B Castle Street; it was called ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1959 by Sharwynne Drennan

I attended the village school and Mrs Richardson was our teacher, I lived in Taunton and travelled daily on the bus from Taunton and walked from the main road to the village school and back to the bus after ...Read more

A memory of Bradford-on-Tone in 1950 by Lesley Jones

My family owned the Victorian pile that incorporated the chemist opposite the Iron Duke. I was born in 1942 at the house (if it's still there) that was built as a wedding present for my parents at the top of the property and ...Read more

A memory of Crowthorne by Thomas Knight

My parents used to camp there before the Second World War, they used to go most weekends. My first memories of Newhaven were of camping after the war I was five. We used go most weekends. My father built his first ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven by Joyce Aedy

I was born in East Dean but my grandparents lived in West Dean along with my aunts, uncles and cousins. I still have cousins in West Dean. My father was a Clifford and worked for East Brothers. I remember as a child playing ...Read more

A memory of West Dean in 1940 by Valerie Bailey