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Bristol's great heritage started from humble beginnings. An Anglo-Saxon settlement by the name of Brigstowe steadily grew into a thriving port. After the Norman invasion of 1066, a castle was built in what is now known as ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

I remember Platts Farm. My gran lived in a bungalow (a wooden hut really) right at the far end of the field. There was a small pond and a little stream running through it. We went there every shcool holidays and I stayed there all ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1960 by Doreen Malone

I was born in Station View, Sennybridge in 1954. Dad was at the army camp, we moved out approx 1957. I'm not sure if Station View was a road or the name of a house. I think there was a post office nearby.

A memory of Sennybridge in 1954 by Ron Hawkins

First holidays I remember 1939 and 1940. We stayed on a farm in Fovant, owned by the Brashers. The farmhouse was very old, had a thatched roof and a huge kitchen chimney with hams hung in it. My great uncle Fred Allen and Aunt Hannah  used ...Read more

A memory of Fovant in 1930 by David Allen

I lived on Hesleyside Road, Wellfield in the late 1950s/early 1960s and as a boy knew all the local fields and highways and by-ways. Although I left the area some years later as I entered my teens I never really lost touch ...Read more

A memory of Earsdon by Neil Johnson

I think the stationers you refer to was called Rossiters. I used to live above a shop called the Gallery at the time (later Midas) opposite the Baptist church, but remember going there to get a Helix maths set when I went into Mr Connoley's class at Banstead Junior School. Pete Chapman

A memory of Banstead in 1968 by Pete Chapman

Over Here... The first American troops to arrive in our part of the world arrived in 1942. The came to what became know as Sudbury Camp (nearly in Marchington). A hospital was built at the present site of HMP Prison. A great ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall by John Mellor

I remember innocent days playing football on Grove Park until you could hardly see the ball. I lived in Greenfield Street and recall tying a piece of string from behind the garden wall to the fence on the back lane ...Read more

A memory of Newchurch by Robert Kendrick

I left Killamarsh (50 Rectory Road) to live in nearby Swallownest in 1960 (age10). Sadly, I left some dear friends behind. Leslie Ellis, Peter Collis, Maurice? We called ourselves the Four Just Men after the TV program! Also ...Read more

A memory of Killamarsh in 1960 by Brian Docker

Streatham was THE place to be. I lived at Crown Point for many years in my teens, and went ice skating three times a week, I remember the hourly speed sessions there, I got very good and fast. I used to go there ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1963 by Jeffrey Paul