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I went to the Tin School (must have been the very early 70's). We lived on the 'Wimpey' estate and after the Tin School, I went to Moston Brook Secondary. I now live in Canada and did a google search to try to see the school, but was ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by David Hussain

Our family moved to Tillingham in 1943. My father had a job with Mr Drakeford & the house we lived in on the square was a tied cottage. After the war we moved into the first of the Swedish council houses at ...Read more

A memory of Bradwell on Sea in 1943 by Derek Cotton

I spent a very happy childhood - my father was a licensed victualler of Ye Olde Bulls Head on the bridge until he retired in 1949. I went to the local school - my teachers were Miss Pratt & Mrs Jefferies- ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1940 by Julie Dilling

I was a London lad, sent to the boarding school just off the Danbury road, called Sandon House School. I had some wonderful days there (and some bad ones), but that whole area of Sandon, Danbury, Great Baddow, and Chelmsford ...Read more

A memory of Sandon in 1966 by Alan Cook

My Grandfather Joesph Thomas Brooks, was a Thames Conservancy employee/ferryman etc.. and on retirement worked as a boatman at The Hungaria. I remember him proudly showing me a guinea on his watchchain, given to him by King Edward VII. Roy Hole.

A memory of Maidenhead in 1910 by Roy Hole

Loved your reminiscences Patricia. I came to Welshpool in 1965 or thereabouts after ten years in the Merchant Navy, and have loved the area and the folk since then. I worked in the post office at Welshpool, times ...Read more

A memory of Welshpool in 1965 by Donald Williamson

As a child I lived with my parents in a prefab in Corelli Rd SE3. We used to walk through the Brook estate, passing more prefabs to reach the Coronet Cinema in Well Hall. On a Sunday we sometimes watched dad play bowls at the ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1955

Hi I was born in 1936 in Five Locks Road just down from Bert Deacons's grocery shop. My mother was Kathleen (nee Bowen) and my father was Fred Williams the Barber in Pontnewydd village next to Ivy Horton's sweet shop and ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd by Bowen Williams

I was born in Brook Street, the bottom end of town. I started school at 3 yrs old, loved the old bottom school. We then moved to the big house at the top of Pen y Bryn. I went to top school. I loved singing and dance, so ...Read more

A memory of Corwen by Blodwen Jacques

I own a picture of the students of BCHS taken in 1947. Such a view has many many names and connections. There is the headmaster Dr. Cordingly [he of the famous stick]. Here is the vicar Hartley Brook's daughter. My old ...Read more

A memory of Braintree in 1947 by Malcolm Stewart Morris