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My family moved to Arundel Drive when I was a baby. Like most of the houses we had a shared drive where you couldn't access the garage. I remember this caused a lot of problems with the neighbours. Have just returned from a ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow by Janice Allen

I lived for the first 6 weeks of my life in Fetcham. I was born 19.8.45. My family had moved to Fetcham to escape the bombing in London & my father, who had fought in the 1st World War, was ...Read more

A memory of Fetcham in 1945 by Patricia Bunce

Well nobody actually said "lunch", It was "dinner" then. No families that I knew of ate a cooked evening meal so "dinner" was the main meal of the day. The school had no kitchen or dining facilities and so every ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

Where do I begin? I have titled this memory thus and placed it in about 1960, because that's the most accurate I can make it. Ida (my mum) pushing me in a pram up the 'Cliff' to the wood yard, that used to be up by the ...Read more

A memory of Draycott in 1960

I have many memories of living in Spencers Wood. I lived on the main road, house name Tidewell. My grandfather used to live in Ivanhoe further down the ...Read more

A memory of Spencers Wood in 1949 by Mary Parish

I used to love going to the children’s zoo at Southport as a child in the 1950s, when I was about the same age as the little girls seen in this view. The baby goats were my favourite animals there. I remember we had a family ...Read more

A memory of Southport in 1955 by Julia Skinner

My parents lived in Cwmdare briefly in 1949 when I was only a baby. Dad was Edward Williams and his wife Margaret (she came from Kent). I have relatives in Hirwaun who I stayed with. I have photos of the countryside only but guess we ...Read more

A memory of Cwmdare in 1949 by Valerie Chapman

I am trying to trace a family with the name Syrett with connections to a 'Mother and Baby home'. Does anyone have any recollection at all?

A memory of Grindleford by Margaret Nadin

My name is Maureen Gaffney (nee Golightly) and the happiest years of my life were spent in my youth in Easington Colliery. I was born in 1935 at 5 Raby Avenue and moved as a young child to Baldwin Street. My best ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery by Barbara Gaffney

So glad I stumbled upon this site. I used to live at 10 Dabbs Hill Lane - probably from the late 60's. I remember The Cabin, A treasure trove of sweet delights - sherbet fountains, rhubarb and custards, sweet cigarettes (don't ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Lynne Edwards