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I lived and went to school at Farmborough, I started school at five years old, my first teacher was Miss Leakey, who later married and became Mrs Smith, two things I remember about her, she had one arm, but was quite ...Read more

A memory of Farmborough in 1946 by John Wilkins

First Day of School Arriving at Egham Hythe Infants School, aged 5, and being placed in the care of Mrs. Spenser. There I remained for one entire term. Most of the faces in the classroom were new. Some of the names heard for the ...Read more

A memory of Egham in 1954 by Keith O'brien

Fond memories of Parham makes me write this, remembering the peacefulness. Surfing the Web, here I  am posting a question all the way from he USA. It was early summer 1954 and I was a Dutch farm exchange student ...Read more

A memory of Parham in 1954 by mntnbouv1

My great great grandmother Mary Balfour Craigie was born on 10 April 1816 on Gairsay Island to John Craigie 1777-1851 and Jannet Sclatter 1777-1846 both of Garisay. John Craigie was a boatman. The family later moved to ...Read more

A memory of Gairsay by bridgethunter

I was born in Tythby in 1948. Rose Cottage on the Cross Roads of Tythby. Church on one corner, Miss Cox's house on another and Bagleys's farm on the other. The youngest of the eight Williamsons. Ours was a full ...Read more

A memory of Tithby in 1948 by Gillian Emerton

My memory of Sandown Castle was that by the time we were children the sea had washed it away and all that was left were flat stones. You had to pass it to go along the sea trail to the golf course at the north end of Deal. Also that, if ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1952 by Francesca Wellard

I have many happy, if rather boozy, memories of Downderry! I first went there in 1983 until my final visit in 1996, where I had 12 fantastic holidays there, most of the time in glorious sunshine. I went with my parents each year ...Read more

A memory of Downderry by Christopher Whittle

My friends and I spent many happy hours playing on the old platform and under the old railway bridge before they were both demolished. We used to play hopscotch on the platform and had a camp amongst the trees at the ...Read more

A memory of Newton Poppleford in 1974 by Diane Ralls

Our family moved to Burnham from Wimbledon, Raynes Park, in late 1948, to 34 Lillian Road when I was 4. We came like pioneers of the west in the back of my father's employer's canvas covered Ford truck; mum ...Read more

A memory of Great Stambridge in 1948 by Malcolm Bowen

The Seagoing Years. I must have left the Army sometime in August or September of 1949, and went back to C.J.King & son, tug owners, to carry on with my job as deck boy. This was not to my ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1950 by Arthur Cottrell