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I grew up in West Ham from my birth until 1960, living at Stephens Road, Stratford. I remember going shopping with Mum to Stratford High Road, we would go to the market for all Mum's shopping. We would buy fish from Angel Lane and ...Read more

A memory of West Ham in 1958 by Joan Doble

My memories of Nutbourne start when we moved to the Post Office in 1966-67, I was aged around 12 years old. I moved to Nutbourne with my father and step-mother, my younger brother boarded at little green school in ...Read more

A memory of Nutbourne in 1860 by Paul Vychodil

I moved to West Herrington village in 1953 as a baby, along with my older sister and parents into a new house in St Cuthberts Road and this was to stay the family home until my mother died in March 2007. My ...Read more

A memory of West Herrington by Lucille Hutchinson

I was born in 1947 (a home birth) in Grove End cottage which was, and still is, located pretty much across the London Road and railway line from the Cricketers pub. Although I've never been inside the pub, I have on ...Read more

A memory of Bagshot in 1953 by Liz Schultz (Nee Berry)

Memories of Wrekenton a mining village in Gateshead, County Durham from my late mother and my memories from the 1950’s My mother was born in Wakes Yard in a mining village called Wrekenton, a ...Read more

A memory of Wrekenton in 1950 by Ron Summerson

I still live in Barnehurst having moved back in 1947. The picture of Barnehurst Road, although the scenery hasn't changed much the shops have. The corner shop on the right was United Dairies and there was a ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst in 1950 by Keith Jackson

I used to live at Grove Farm Cottages, Paddockhurst Road, Turners Hill. My father was Noel Sargent and worked as a farm employee for Grove Farm which was either managed or owned by a Mr. Hocken. My father's name ...Read more

A memory of Turners Hill in 1959 by Terry Sargent

'The Market' - this was what we used to call the small hotel on the corner of High Street and Tunnel Road. It was the most wonderful time, hippies were in every night, there was a disco and psychadelic light show once a week upstairs. I ...Read more

A memory of Reigate in 1968 by Philip Ross

Is this the church where brides 3/4 length wedding gloves were hung from the rafters till they rotted off? Upper Clatford snobs born in a bucket christened in a tub!

A memory of Lower Ratley in 1950 by John Scott

Can anybody remember the fair that used to come in the summer to the field in Woods Lane in the 1950s? It was the field where the Grove public house now stands. The fair used to come for a week, they used to have swing boats and it ...Read more

A memory of Stapenhill in 1954 by Dave Hughes