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Our house in Westbury Avenue was directly under the bad weather flightpath to Heathrow. The aircraft would come from the Ruislip Road direction and we could hear them coming getting louder and louder by the time they were over ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Lesley Stanhope (Green)

I was a "Civvie" pay officer at the old Buller Barracks from 1962/63/64. This was just as N ational Service was ending. My main Corps was RASC plus 165 Provost Co RMP. Best memories was that 1Battalion and also 2Battalion ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1963 by Carl Kirkpatrick

Seen every day but nearly always missed, was the sign above the hairdressers, the one with the shade down and owned by E. Curtis, it was still possible to see the sign at the top, just below the guttering, that said it was the site where the public could go and have a bath.

A memory of Sandy in 1960 by David Emery

I had just a few weeks here, June/July 1955, in Mychett Hutments prior to Embarkation to Egypt and subsquently, Cyprus. This was the transit camp for the Royal Army Pay Corps. Memories of the area are now quite vague. However, I ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale in 1955 by Stanley Dawson

Our family used to travel from London to a cottage called Redlon in Great Wratting for our childhood holidays during the 1950s. It was owned by the Cummings sisters and their mother. We looked after their Siamese ...Read more

A memory of Great Wratting in 1950 by Elizabeth Heap Talvela

1950's: As a young lad I lived just a few minutes from this park (which is in Cleethorpes not Grimsby) and so spent a lot of time there. This pond was home to many hundreds of small fish, which I assume to be sticklebacks and ...Read more

A memory of Grimsby by John Ellingford

This title may sound strange but to people living in the area(e.g) Skelton my home,they will understand. In a field at Overton was grass tracking motor bike racing fantastic always big crowds,I was six I went ...Read more

A memory of Overton in 1954 by Tony Loftus

I was interested to see the photgraph of Maesteg,with the shop Leila Daniel Leila and i married in Vancouver in 1978,and i think that's her Father standing in the shop door way,although i never met him. . Regards, Alan Robertson.

A memory of Maesteg by alangr

In 1959, my father took me to Chapel Ash to see the latest arrival in the car showroom on the junction. (It might have been called Clark's) The place was packed. So many people wanted to see the two new cars which were on display. ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by brucehaycock

i dont have a clear memory of pontypridd, i was a baby of 14 months, a twin when our mother died giveing birth to a baby, her name was margret olwyn birch,nee owen, we were all put in the childrens homes, and my twin and i was adopted by ...Read more

A memory of Pontypridd in 1943 by Howard Horgan