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I lived in Shenley from the age of 10 to 15. They were my war years. I went to the boys school in Shenley and then to Hillside Senior School Borehamwood. They were very happy days, removed from the London bombing. My brother and cousin ...Read more

A memory of Shenley by tomsaunders71

I lived in Shenley from the age of 10 to 15. They were my war years. I went to the boys school in Shenley and then to Hillside Senior School Borehamwood. They were very happy days, removed from the London bombing. My brother and cousin ...Read more

A memory of Shenley by tomsaunders71

I was born in 1950 above my father's butchers shop Laughtons in Green St. Behind the shop they made leather from cows hide I can still smell it not pleasant haha. Beside the butchers shop there was Dots Cafe a big ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury by jeandennehy123

I was quite young in 1962 but it was then that my parents purchased the leasehold on the Regent Café in New Street. We moved in at the start of the big freeze of that winter. The café was a meeting ...Read more

A memory of Chipping Norton by richard.magli

We used to go to beacholme holiday camp in the late 1940s and early 1950, a friend of my parents Had two chalets there, one called Bailea the other was Marlboro, there was a shop next door to The camp called Listers were we ...Read more

A memory of Humberston

I used to live at Orchard Place, small terrace cottages on Main Road, St Pauls Cray. Previous to this as readers may recall I lived at the top of Chalk Pit Avenue in a semi-detached bungalow with my ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray by Derek Stocker

My Dad wrote of his time at Hutton Residential School. This is what he wrote: September 1939 - January 1949 I was evacuated in September and on my arrival at Block 2, I nearly had my head knocked off by my cousin, ...Read more

A memory of Shenfield by sueblaxland

During the school holidays all the kids of the village would head to Bazil Point there in the corner by the James's Fishermans hut we would spend the day swimming messing about in the boats as the ...Read more

A memory of Overton by j.blacow

,I must have been about six years old when we moved from Gypsey Road in Welling, to a new house in Hurlingham Road, Number 40, by the Pantiles. A year later WW11 started, and we spent our nights in the damp Anderson shelter ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by patricia.norton

When I was little, I remember Stowmarket as being full of interesting shops. There also was a good market on Thursdays and Saturdays. I remember the 50p stall!! My Dad knew the bloke who ran that. Mind you, my Dad knew ...Read more

A memory of Stowmarket by Karen Dack