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I am puzzled as to which year this photo was taken. It must have been very late fifties because my earliest memory of The Rest Garden, as we called it, was when it was still recognizeable as a graveyard. The gravestones (many ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

I used to drink there regularly in the 70s with rugby playing friends. Windsor Davies from 'It Aint arf hot Mum' used to drink there too.

A memory of Wallington by Phillip Stringer

I remember my father being in this hospital. He had scepticaemia. I was about 5 or 6 and my mother and grandmother were driven from Windsor to Taplow by a neighbour of my grandmother's. I would wait in the car in the ...Read more

A memory of Taplow in 1953 by Kate Arnold

I visited Bedlinog during the late 1960's when my Grandmother Elsie Price (ne Phillips) would travel from Windsor Road, Edwardsville with me and my identical twin sister Jane to visit my grandfather ...Read more

A memory of Bedlinog by lizhuntley07

All those fond memories of Greenway School after Oak Farm in Hillingdon followed by nursing at Hillingdon Hospital. Do you remember the shop in Cross St "Bewitched" selling fancy glass and gifts? And the smashing cooked meat rolls sold ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1967 by Melody Lyall

My family lived in Greywell House from 1955 when I was 9 until about 1965/66. I attended Runnemede House School in Rusham Park Avenue in Egham for a few years then moved on to St Brigidine's Convent in Windsor. I ...Read more

A memory of Virginia Water in 1955 by Wendy Graham

I grew up in Foxbury Drive and went to Vine Road Primary when the uniform was green and yellow. Headmaster was called Mr Ayres I think, I remember a teacher called Mr Swatton who saved my life in the playground by getting an ambulance ...Read more

A memory of Orpington in 1960 by Linda Ross

Silly this, I was only a few months old but have a memory of troops marching with troop carriers near here, the could have been marching from the Trading Estate area towards Windsor, was it before D day, was there some celebration in later ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by Dave Hill

The picture of Windsor Drive is so evocative for me. I spent the first 5 years of my life living with my parents in my grandmother's council house in Sandpit Road on the Downham Estate at the bottom of ...Read more

A memory of Chelsfield in 1953 by Kevin Barham

On August 13, 1961 I took up residence as a student nurse in Lindsay Smith House across from the hospital. It was the day the Berlin wall went up, and, as I recall, the day before the grouse shooting season began. I was 19 ...Read more

A memory of Virginia Water in 1961 by Patricia Hampton