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,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 in ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by patricia.norton

We moved to the Mitre Oak Inn about 1935 just before it was pulled down, then we lived in a bungalow to keep the licence going until the new Mitre Oak Hotel was opened in 1936. Soon after there was a fire and the ...Read more

A memory of Crossway Green

When I was little, I remember Stowmarket as being full of interesting shops. There also was a good market on Thursdays and Saturdays. I remember the 50p stall!! My Dad knew the bloke who ran that. Mind you, my Dad knew ...Read more

A memory of Stowmarket by Karen Dack

I was a boarder at Kingsley School. I clearly recall our "crocodile" to church every Sunday, the Sunday story time whilst we continued our "hobby" ( I really do not know how they would have coped with a singing hobby!). We ...Read more

A memory of Horley by pamela.fabianska

My Grandmother lived in London Colney for many years I used to go and see her often when I was a child that would be in the early forties, she lived in a cottage opposite the Water Splash there were two cottages there named Davis Cottages ...Read more

A memory of London Colney by Joan Matthews

I have loads of memories - I moved here with my family in 1956 (aged 8) - I just read about the changing huts out at the Castle - what a lot of fun was had in them!! A big memory for me was of the Blacksmiths (the Middletons) - I spent as ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth by fionartait

Around 1922 at the age of 17 my Dad , Bill Walker had his first motorbike and every evening after work he would ride from his Fathers garage in Acocks Green to Yarningale Common to meet up with his pal Val Reynolds who lived down the ...Read more

A memory of Yarningale Common by kevbrittain

Happy memories! I was born in Liverpool, 1947, but my father moved us down to Plymouth in 1952, where I'm still living. Because of all my maternal relatives still living in Liverpool we'd make frequent visits and I have fond memories of ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool by 12strings

My nan (Amy) and granddad (Fred) ran the post office in Cobtree Cottage Ightham. As a young girl I started Ightham primary school in 1964 before changing to Borough Green primary school in the last 2 years. My uncle's ...Read more

A memory of Ightham by linda.rye

My name is Peter Martin i was born and brought up in Berry Lane between Samuel and Emanuel roads. I was born in Billericay hospital on the 11th May 1952 i attended langdon Hills Primary and then Laindon High Road. I remember Mr Foy in ...Read more

A memory of Langdon Hills by peajay52