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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 ...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 ...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 ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1967 by Joanna Levin

I have just found a photograph with the names, Denise O'Gorman and Marie Lafferty H.O.T ward Heswell Oct 1970 on the back. I believe my late mum was a nurse in this hospital in the 70's! I am ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1970 by Amy Stephenson

We originally lived in Camberwell and were bombed out in the blitz of 1940. After sleeping on the platform of the Elephant & Castle underground train station for a few weeks, my dad found us a house to rent ...Read more

A memory of Wealdstone in 1940 by Reg Ware

My parents and I spent a very enjoyable week at Moreton Paddox when it was run by the WTA. At the finish of our week we went to Wales but, as I was awaiting my School Certificate results, I journeyed back alone to the ...Read more

A memory of Moreton Paddox in 1948 by Jeffrey Cox

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 ...Read more

A memory of Runwell in 1959

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

QUEEN ELIZABETH GRAMMAR AND DARLINGTON IN THE 40’s and 50’s I was born and lived for 18 years in Pensbury Street. Then Hargreave terrace. And grateful for the 1944 Education Act. Still. ...Read more

A memory of Darlington by Robin Matthews

He was only a few weeks old when he came to us, my mother had got to know about him and thought he was just the thing I needed to cheer me up. I was fourteen years of age and had not long moved home; my parents had decided ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear