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I was stationed at Chilwell barracks near Nottingham in 1953. There was a very tall lad in my barracks by the name of Hill. he came from Bristol a place I have never been to. He was a long distance runner in civvy ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Les May

I would sometimes go to Downing Street if I had a day in London but I always worked at Chartwell. They were very nice people to work for, Mrs Churchill never wanted me to leave, I can't remember why I did. Mother, ...Read more

A memory of Ledsham in 1930 by George Allen

Whilst staying with my aunt in Bradbourne Park Road I went to watch a match on the Vine and Colin Cowdrey was playing for Kent 2nd X1. He scored 61, I think, in the days before he starred for England... this was in 1952/3.

A memory of Sevenoaks in 1953 by Denis Payne

Hello everyone, I have been wondering all my life where this scary place was, I never knew the name of it, all I knew was it was in Broadstairs Kent, very near the sea. As I remember, we had to go down onto the beach in the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1949

I was born at 171 Church Street, where the East Marsh flats now stand. My father worked on the docks at New Holland, so when I was a few weeks old my mother took me there to join him in Manchester Square. In 1953 my father - ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by leslie

I was evacuated from Fulham south London in September 1939 along with my brother and sister. my first school was Lincoln Court School in Green Lane Addlestone. We all thought Addlestone a beautiful place which it was after living in ...Read more

A memory of Weybridge by donald.ramsey34

,I must have been about six years old when we moved from Gypsey Road in Welling, to a new house in Hurlingham Road, Number 40, by the Pantiles. A year later WW11 started, and we spent our nights in the damp Anderson shelter ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by patricia.norton

Hi I went to Battersea county school in culvert road from 1969 - 1975 I was in Tower house I have been on facebook but cannot seem to locate many people from that time.. My maiden name was Jenner and I knew some really ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by lgladwin99

does anyone know who lives in half yoke house now,used to be wendy and farouk many years ago.Be nice to know if they are still around.

A memory of East Farleigh by Paul Cattano

i was born in 1932 in malmesbury rd Canning Town in a house backing on to the railway goods and shunting yards. This provoked battle between the shunting locomotive firemen and my mother drying nappies on a clothes line on the ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by g.olmit