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I was raised in Penge - spending most of my time enjoying playing on bomb sites and the change from post war austerity to the better times of the early sixties - and can remember many of the photos displayed. I moved to ...Read more

A memory of Penge by jananchrisx

i was born at 18 Eltringham st 1959 my brother is malcolm born 1958 i have a younger sister catherine and my brother john died in 1984. My best freind was sandra davis who ived in no 14 (i think) my grandparents and aunts and ...Read more

A memory of Blackhill by peter.a.stephenson

When I was born in Chelmsford Hospital, my family were living in a house in Corringham Road, Stanford-le-Hope but my first memories are of 66 Billet Lane. Right opposite what was ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by Gail Taplin

I loved Burnt Oak as it was at that time.I started school at the Annunciation in 1942 with Kathleen Oatts and Irene Keech,they both lived in Langham Gardens. in 1948 I moved on to St Thomas's in ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by Teresa Keech

In 1969 we visited St Ives in Cornwall for our annual summer holidays but on this occasion due to it being a last minute decision we had not booked our accommodation. Travelling from Bedfordshire in those days was considered by ...Read more

A memory of St Ives by ducatee

We moved to Horley in 1952, when I was 10. (Dad worked for Mr Coutts repairing radio's & TV's.) Mum, Dad, & 2 brothers, Robin & Colin. A third brother Crispin Allan (after pub owner) was born there in 1953, after we found ...Read more

A memory of Horley by annjack69

I was Born 1948 in Portsmouth, my Ex Navy dad wanted to go as far from the sea and war as possible. Thus carpenter on remote estates with tied housing at Liphook, Chard, Broughton. Hell for a poor family and 3 / 4 ...Read more

A memory of Salford by vaughan.clark48

In 1955 I went to little Ealing junior school and I remember being taught by mr Lim. In 1958 I went to Acton County Grammar School where I was bullied mercilessly but in those days all the help you got was "ignore them they'll soon stop" ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Gill Cooper

I came to live in Blakeney at the age of approximately 5 prior to this I lived at Roxborough House in Stroud - I lived in a Childrens Home named "Meadoway" along with my 2 brothers and 4 sisters - we all belonged to ...Read more

A memory of Blakeney by jean.butt

My parents and I moved to Petts Wood from London in 1932 to a new semi detatched at 53 St Johns Road. The builder was named Wostall. My aunt, a school teacher, also moved next door. St Johns Road then was unadopted, and at the ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood