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I was a chain lad when the M1 was being constructed. I was working for Amy's, the asphalt company. Amongst other things I was to make cups of tea and also collect thousands of pounds in wages for the work force. My boss who's name I ...Read more

A memory of Barnsley by Roland Mitchell

The shop on the corner as pictured was called Rapley's Corner Shop owned by Mrs Rapley in the 1950's, and as a child I used to help Mrs Rapley serving and re-stacking shelves with stock after school and on Saturdays. I ...Read more

A memory of Crawley Down in 1957 by Elizabeth (Liesel) Walters

At leas,t for as long as I can remember - there's always been a chip shop on the Parade at Crayford. Just like there's always been on the corner of Station Road - a little way further through the town - if you can ...Read more

A memory of Crayford in 1965 by Les Hammond

Hhello Nick Brannigan, I used to drink with your brother along with Seamus Cleary, Micky Kerr, John Mullhern and a crew down the Old Mill and the Langley Tavern. I hadn't seen Seamus since we were kids but I often wondered if it was ...Read more

A memory of Fawley in 1961 by Mick Reynolds

Boys entered the school in 1968, about 12 in the sixth form and a normal intake in the first year(now year 7). The female staff and female pupils were in a state of shock, the boys were so noisy and undisciplined in ...Read more

A memory of Selby in 1968 by Helen Swann (Now Hill)

I was born at the maternity hospital in 1951, My parents and I lived at 24 Clifton Road while I was a baby but moved to 66 Park Avenue as my mother could not abide my father's mother. I attended St Oswalds C of E ...Read more

A memory of Ashbourne by gordon.braddock

I remember my school days at Tilbury where I started school in 1934 at the Roman Catholic School in Calcutta Road and left in 1944 just a year before the end of the second world war In 1947, I was called up for National ...Read more

A memory of Tilbury by John Ryan

I was born in Benfield Street in 1946. We lived in a house which was condemned due to either bomb damage or shock, as there were large splits in the basement walls. My first memories of the street were playing ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

We actually lived in Orford in the 1960's very close to Padgate camp and we often used to walk through to Padgate where there was a nice pub and my Mum and Dad would have a shandy while my sister and I would have a lemonade and a packet of ...Read more

A memory of Padgate

I moved into Pillaton in 1950 at the age of 10 to a smallholding, High Kernock. It was a bit of a culture shock moving from Plymouth to a bungalow with no amenities at all but we got on fine. The viullage then had some amenities in the ...Read more

A memory of Pillaton by josdave