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I was born in Durham 1943, I lived with my grandparents at 51 Old Elvet opposite the what was then the Shire Hall. My grandparents ran a boarding house where lots of business people would stay some from America and Canada ...Read more

A memory of Durham by Andrew Eves

I was born in 1938 in a cottage on theRroseneath Castle estate where my father was a gardner at the castle, £2 a week free house and a ton of coal a year. The boat came in at high tide offloaded 60 ton coal and provisions all removed by ...Read more

A memory of Ardpeaton

I have been trying to find any Arbuckles that are in Australia as I know they would be family because my uncle came here after the 2nd World War. He was very young and married a few times; as I was told by my mother and ...Read more

A memory of New Malden in 1945 by Barbara Hudspeth

At the end of Villiers Street and on the opposite side of Whitehall Road was an iron footbridge that crossed the railway line. There was a mechanical signal just below the bridge. In these days when private cars were a ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

How many of you have fond memoires of times spent on the shore and along the prom. Who got hot water from the cafes along the bottom of Tobin Street. Do you remember the bands playing in Davy Jones's locker on the ...Read more

A memory of Egremont by Jess Pearce

Just south of the entrance to the Airdries was the Methodist Church where we had summer bazaars. Adjacent to this lived Ernie Beard and his wife Betty. They had a Dalmation called Major which I used to walk for ...Read more

A memory of Langstone in 1961 by Michael Davies

I lived at 11 Church Lane with my sister Anne and parents, John and Barbara Mawson, until 1978. It was my grandfather's house (William Henry Cazaly) that he bought in the 1950's and had sold it to my parents in 1965. ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow in 1969 by Joy Connell

Actually I was born in 1936, in Hope Hospital. My mom was Elizabeth Scotchford and my dad Noel Lilley. They separated after my brother Paul was born. My only memory was living with my grandma ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1940 by Pat Cambridge

It was my first post as a carer in Dorking on a working holiday in 1992, my lady and I went for a drive and I came upon this incredible little village of Friday street. I thought it to be the most beautiful and picturesque place. It was ...Read more

A memory of Friday Street in 1992 by Michelle Legg

My maiden name was Perl. I have so many happy memories of growing up in this area in the 50's. Moved to a bungalow in Hythe in 1954 one of the first to be built on the old golf course. Attended, for a short time, the primary ...Read more

A memory of Fawley by Christyne Remnant