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Gift to Church Our year as Mayor and Mayoress of Wolverhampton was simply brilliant, we have some lasting memories of the events and the functions we attended on behalf of the city. But we also tried very ...Read more

A memory of Wednesfield in 2006 by Phil Bateman

I remember arriving at St Mary's School, Newton, for my very first day in September 1940 when the sirens sounded which meant putting my gas mask on and making a quick dash to the shelter behind the school. My grandma was with ...Read more

A memory of Hyde in 1940 by Colin Critchlow

The smell of chestnuts in December on cold nights in Lewisham High Street. The seafood stall, eating cockles and whelks. Going to Chiesmans to see Father Christmas. Hearing the calling of the market traders. Going to Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1968 by Julia Kitchiner

I was born in Hook (surname then was Martin) and moved to Hinchley wood at a very young age. As there was no school at that time in Hinchley Wood we started our education in Long Ditton infants school, walking to and ...Read more

A memory of Long Ditton in 1940 by Hazel Bailey

I went to Eastbury boys school, lived then in Blake Avenue, had vert fond memories of Barking town centre, also played in Eastbury House. I remember the pie mash shop and the coffee bar next to the picture house called the Electric or known as the bug hole.

A memory of Barking in 1956 by Roy Alan Robinson

Hi, my name is Elizabeth McKibbin, my maiden name was Brannan. My father James Brannan was born in Knockentiber at number 21 Greenhill Terrace. My father married and moved to Mauchline where we stayed for 7 years. ...Read more

A memory of Knockentiber in 1964 by Elizabeth Mckibbin

Having been born in Camberwell Hospital in 1935 and after being bombed out of three different houses during the war around Queens Road, (St Mary's Road, Consort Road and Raul Road), my sister and I were then evacuated to ...Read more

A memory of Peckham by George Highsted

My mum, Ann Diamond, was in St Mary's home for girls from about 1940- 1943, then went to stay with some foster parents. She has written some memoirs of her time there, and in the home. I would love to show her any more info or photos I can find of Cold Ash x.

A memory of Cold Ash by Debbie Richards

Used to go and play in the streams and the River Brent, the memories are so vivid. Tis, was, of course during the war. I and a friend, took my three and a half year years younger ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1944 by Eileen Margaret Tristram/Nee Wheeler

Samuel Seward and his partner Elizabeth Vincent, lived at Whitstone from the 1850's and they had thirteen children.He farmed at Whitstone Cross, and after Elizabeth's death he married a Selina Mary Mardon Lock. Samuel ...Read more

A memory of Whitstone in 1860 by John Ball