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I learned to swim in the Baths late 1940s and In early 1950 went dancing every Saturday night at the Spa I used to go horse riding from the stables near the station

A memory of Saltburn-By-The-Sea by Sylvia Fayers

Posted to JSSC Latimer in 1962. One of the first RAF cooks to arrive and to take over the OR's Mess from the Army. It was my first time on a multi service camp, but not the last. I remember that there were very few buses into Chesham and no ...Read more

A memory of Latimer by david.bayliss12

My mother and father were married in St Andrews garrison church in 1944 Mum was a cook in the NAFFI and my dad was stationed on the camp after coming back from France following Dunkirk with damage to his legs

A memory of Aldershot by sahqs

I have not seen any pictures of the Station Yard in Hinckley. My father used to work in B.Ridgway's coal office in the yard. His parents used to lived in a house called Hilltop at the corner of Priesthills Road. I have ...Read more

A memory of Hinckley by hilltop_trully

It was August 1955. School summer holidays and when they were over, it would be time for me to begin junior school back in my Midlands home town. My mother had been preparing for that big event, purchasing embroidered cloth school ...Read more

A memory of Penzance by brucehaycock

Does anyone remember the petrol station being built on the corner of Mill Road where it joins Purfleet Road around 1969/1970. An Esso station now I think, but then it was ABCO - (with a big orange and black triangular logo) I worked for ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by alandvi.187

I have many memories of lydd some not so great I was brought up in the old police station opp the rising sun just on the right as you go over the bridge of the miniature steam railway. I remember the feilds at the back of the old police ...Read more

A memory of Lydd by sapiano5

The thing that really annoyed me about ST. Paul's Cray when it was first built and we moved there early 1949 was that there were no shops!! Long walk to ST Mary Cray high Street! The first thing that was built were PUBS!! ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray by brianallenross18

We came to Littlehampton in the Summers of 1957-61. We stayed at Mrs Squires B n B in Albert Road. I spent my time either on the beach, the fun fair or just walking around the town (I was about 8 years old at the time). My dad ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton by peterphelps06

I was born at 3 prospect place in 1962. My grandmother was hilda readman, i remember the tarry beck and the old railway station which i believe was lit by paraffin lamps on a night. We moved in 1962 to town farm but spent much of my ...Read more

A memory of Cargo Fleet by cabruce321