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My mum and dad bought this house in the 70's I remember the large door on this picture, it was some sort of mill. They gutted the place (helped by brother and me on cement making duty) and made it a family home. The large door is now the ...Read more

A memory of Potterne in 1978 by Emma Day

I was born at Corner House, at the bottom of Aerodrome Rd, Hawkinge on 31st August 1936. My parents were the local newsagents in Canterbury Rd, backing onto the famous airfield.  I have vivid childhood memories of the war ...Read more

A memory of Folkestone in 1940 by David Pepin

My family moved here, to no. 57, just beyond the tree on the right, a year after the photo was taken.  At the time of the photo the houses were still being built (ours was probably not yet up), to the right (in the wedge with ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1960 by Martin Jones

I used to come down and up this road from the bus stop every day to and from school. One of the boys who grew up in this street (a house on the right as I remember) started playing for a very influential rock band called the herd. It ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1967 by Martin Jones

The little house next to Mary Newman`s Cottage is where I live now...but I first walked past it with my mother at about the time this photo was taken. We got off the steam train at the station just up the hill, to walk to the ...Read more

A memory of Saltash in 1955 by Steve Fuller

Cove was a special place, a place where I was born, at 11 Sydney Smith Close...now stands Beverly Crec.... My grandad Matthew Smith lived at 39 Holly Rd, and worked on the railway as a plate layer. Growing up we lived in Hazel Avenue, ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1958 by Peter Smith

My name was Evelyn Smith "Eve".  I was evacuated to my uncle and aunt's home during the war.  My uncle was Sidney Smith - he was station master.  We lived at 3 Coombe Lea.   Miss Richardson was our school teacher - a really beautiful ...Read more

A memory of Tipton St John in 1940 by Eve White

My great grandad worked as a gamekeeper on the Tilgate estate. He moved with his family from Suffolk to Crawley in the 1880s. I have many happy memories of visiting my grandparents at Tilgate estate. They lived in the house next to the ...Read more

A memory of Crawley by Shirley Elmokadem

I was born in Tyldesley at 13 High Street - the house is gone now. I emigrated to USA in 1953, married and had 3 children. I went to St Josephs RC School and Sacred Heart Church. We all went to school in Hindsford, Tommy, Norah, ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley in 1930 by Norah Keleher Burke

My brother Ray and myself lived at this address, depicted on the right of the photograph, with our parents, Alec and Doris, known as Dot and Davie. During the war a child from 1, Grove Cottages crawled through ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham in 1944 by Tony Davie