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In the years of rationing, my mum used to remove the sweet coupons from her ration book so that we didn't spend all our pocket money on sweets. About halfway down Castle Hill, on the left, was ...Read more

A memory of Axminster in 1948 by Marjorie Alcock

Well our address was quite easy , Fairy Cross, Near Bideford, North Devon. Tel. Horns Cross 328   !! Our mail always found us with no problems at all. There were not a lot of us there in those days. We lived in Headons Cottage, it ...Read more

A memory of Fairy Cross in 1962 by Derek England

Savernake Forest is significant to me because this was the chosen halfway point on our family's mid+ 1950's long road journey from Hereford to Portsmouth for our annual summer holidays. Here, my ...Read more

A memory of Savernake Forest in 1953 by Dylan Rivis

I was a 16 year old boy and lived with my family on a hillside opposite Tunstead quarry known as The Lees. Every Sunday morning I would pick up the papers (News of the World , People etc) on my bicycle from the post office in Peak Dale, ...Read more

A memory of Wormhill in 1952 by Don Edwards

When I was about 12 years old, with feet as thick as young, strong leather, my father, who was a pilot (Allan Dyson) and Nina (my mum, Nina actually) took us all from our home on a plot of land in Halfway House in the Transvaal (some ...Read more

A memory of Glasbury in 1970 by Kayte Dyson

This photo appears at the back of Essex Living Memories (pages 112 - 113) and in "I Remember When ... Memories of Britain (page 134)".  The two ladies in the foreground with the prams appear familiar - The lady on the left ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1955

This photo looks like the 'Swan Inn" at the Mitcham end of Figgs Marsh where I caught the bus to Tooting Broadway to get the Underground to London.  The trees of Figgs Marsh Common can be seen in the background.  The road split in two ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1963 by Carole Baldwin

On The High Street, Neston as you look towards Liverpool Road with The Cross just behind you you may still be able to see two alleyways. One used to end in a ...Read more

A memory of Neston in 1975 by C Evans

I lived in Halfway House, Common Road, Great Wakering (near Potton Island), from 1957 to 1963. I lived there with my parents, two sisters and three bothers, all older than me. The primary school was a small red brick building ...Read more

A memory of Great Wakering by Heather Mc Pherson

Year 1955 because it's central to the time we lived just a few doors down in a new bungalow (Khandala), from the Thorpe's café (it was west towards the roundabout, north side of the road) and one of my cherished ...Read more

A memory of Southbourne in 1955 by Liz Forrest O Driscoll