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Being Con's older brother, my memories go back a bit further, having started school about the day war was declared, going to the village school, with Miss Burling(?) - rumour had it that she changed the spelling of her name ...Read more

A memory of Figheldean in 1940 by William(Bill) Evans

I visited St Peter's in August 1976 as part of a search for traces of my ancestors, the De Vauxs of Adlington, French Hugenots who first settled from France, in 1630. They became Yeomen farmers on the Leghs Adlington estate and ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury in 1976 by James Logan Bell

Does anyone remember the Brown Family who lived in Norbury Avenue. Ken and Jacqueline , I think their parents were Vera And Ron. I believe they may have moved to New Addington. We have been trying to trace Ken as he was a great ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath

Long time ago i walked up that path. I was born in New Addington, 65 Castle Hill Avenue then moved to Gascoigne Road until 1973. went to Wolsey Primary then to Fairchildes Secondary Modern Girls School 1964 - 1968. The music room ...Read more

A memory of New Addington by mfinden36

Looking at old pictures and archives of weybridge I came across this page of the very happy childhood memories in New Haw. The very first thing that striked me was when you mentioned about working at Bentleys Farm in the ...Read more

A memory of New Haw by Vince Read

I was 9 when we returned from Australia in the summer of 1967, we lived at 37 Farley Road after three different houses in Littleheath Road all belonging to friends of my parents, who conveniently were away on holiday by consecutive ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Cooper

For about 2 years around 1815 John Greenfield aged about 16, before he was married was a hired hand for a farmer In Hayes called Tom or Thomas Smith. Later John Greenfield and his wife Sarah lived in Hayes, near West ...Read more

A memory of Hayes by Gemma Gemma

Holland is a bustling Essex coastal town `resplendent`-a bride in her wedding day gown, tree lined avenues, with neat little plots, well kept gardens and a place for the tots, a school, four churches, library and hall, a ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1993 by Allen Warrender

I was born in Croydon in 1943, moved to Addington, then Birchington (Kent) before returning to New Addington in 1953 where I attended Wolsey Junior School & Fairchildes Secondary School. Shirley Secondary, Lanfranc ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1950 by Jonathan Le Vine

I remember quite vividly, at the age of 3, visiting our new flat which was being built at the time in Castlehill Avenue and playing in the loft water tanks which were just over the road waiting to be fitted into the 2 storey ...Read more

A memory of New Addington in 1960 by Mike Kenny