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I lived at Lane End, Bramley no 6 in the circle.  The white cottage in the picture use to have an apple orchard next to it.   Me and my cousins used to try and get apples before the old lady got out of her house but she always ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1964 by Sheilagh Daglish(Smith)

My family moved to Watford in 1953 to a large house in Rosslyn Road, a side road within a few yards of the Rickmansworth Road right opposite the Town Hall concert hall entrance. I spent virtually all my childhood there plus the ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1953 by J Lawrence Prior

In the centre of the picture, the smaller house I believe is 'Cosy Cot' where my aunt Phyllis and cousin Peter spent WW2 and experienced the death of my Uncle Alf in the RAF in 1940. I remember that fragrant parcels used to ...Read more

A memory of Pentewan in 1940 by Jennifer E Chalmers

I was born in Isleworth, at 10 Hall Road to be exact and my parents lived in this very house for 50 years.   I remember this house very well, at the time it was owned, as were others by the local council.  Just down the road is the ...Read more

A memory of Isleworth in 1960 by Mary Evans

I was born on Cavendish Street opposit St.Clements church,and moved to Ordsall flats in 1949 brand new they were ! We lived in Everard House near the Globe pub. We went to Mount Carmel infants school when Mr Glynn was the ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1953 by Catherine Conley

I used to spend my w/ends and school hols at pickmere in the 1950,s ,I used to hire out boats for jack spencer they were the blue and white rowing boats. his boat shed is hiddenby the tree in the foreground,his house is the white one ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere by Dave Pitt

Preston Watson was the wine and spirit merchants of the town. The premises consisted of a fine three-storey house with shop, a large coach house and two or three other houses on both sides of The Pallant that were used for mineral ...Read more

A memory of Havant by Barry Mahony

We moved into Colindale avenue in 1943 shortly after the tube station was bombed. My father was a guard on the northern line. I spent many happy days with my many friends playing in the police college grounds on the anti aircraft guns that ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Brian Goodall

We moved to Colindale Avenue in 1942 shortly after the house was repaired from bomb damaged. Friends were quickly made and I spent many happy days playing in the park opposite the Tube station. The Police grounds were also a spot ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Brian Goodall

I was 4 in 1960, but I remember my dad working as a goods guard on the railway at the back of our house in Church Crescent, He used to go over the garden fence to work, and catch the train to Brecon, and North Wales from ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg in 1960 by Marilyn Lomas