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not quite sure of date, but i remember having to sleep on camp beds in summer and not being able to talk, and the swimming costumes that sagged when wet,no schooling as such long walks, going to the cinema most sat days, i ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island in 1955 by Rosemary Chambers

I lived in a large house which came with my Fathers job as a cowman on a Dairy farm. He milked approx 60 head of Guernsey/Jersey cows. This was near the Golf club. I could see a very tall radio mast from our sitting room. I used to ...Read more

A memory of Brookmans Park in 1956 by Jackie Nowland /Nee Farrow

One summer afternoon, aged about 10, I was playing on and around this bridge with a group of boys. I was a bit of a tomboy! Some of the older boys decided to jump off the bridge and then jeered that I wouldn't be able to do this because I ...Read more

A memory of Fetcham in 1953 by Maureen Cate

I spent weeks in an isolation ward, my parents only being able to speak through a glass window. My many toys i accumulated after many weeks had to be left, until the morning I was due to leave a wonderful nurse called Tracy led me along a ...Read more

A memory of Nork by Michael Mackey

Hi all This is actually a request rather than a memory. Would anyone be able to help me track down some information... Trying to find the name of a butchers shop on the Uxbridge Road in about 1967/1968. It was in ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1967 by Joanna Levin

Was a patient at the hospital from Palm Sunday, 1968 for about six weeks. The picture you have in postcard form was the rose garden. I took several photographs in colour, while there, as we had access to the whole of the ...Read more

A memory of Horsham by hilary.m.brock

Whilst researching my ancestry I learned that his mother, my Grandmother Beatrice Emily Sharp died in 1969 in Runwell Mental Hospital (as it was called then). I never knew her but know of this place as although it ...Read more

A memory of Runwell in 1959

Wow! No more canings from the towering Sister Lawrence? And in my day it was California Syrup of Figs we were forced to take to keep us regular (we held it in the mouth and spat it out in the playground). There was a middle dorm ...Read more

A memory of Monks Kirby by Patricia Mc Loughlin

Burley Woodhead. We lived in Shotover from my birth in 1942 until approx 1957. My parents moved into the house and the village 1939. When my brother Roger was born in Bingley in 1946 I ...Read more

A memory of Burley in Wharfedale in 1950 by Michael Inman

I am not old enough to go back to 1925 but going back to an eleven year old I can remember Nonsuch Park being cropped during the war with cereals. We were able to walk through the park to the mansion & gardens & the only ...Read more

A memory of Cheam in 1944 by Brian Mackie