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My name is Victoria Garcia. At 15 years old, I arrived at the school in the middle of winter. Coming from an all summer weather year round, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, it was a shock how cold it was. I was greeted by sister ...Read more

A memory of Redhill by Maria Victoria Garcia Azuero

I think it mite have been one Sunday in 1954 (cos the plant was nearly deserted) when me, my older bro Roy and 2 or 3 other kids from Hart Lane wound up in the new car parking area of General Motors Vauxhall. As all the cars keys ...Read more

A memory of Luton

This is the Broadway as I knew it. Both the Middlesex registered Driving School Morris 1000 and the East Sussex registered Morris 1000 truck MPN556 date this to after 1958. On the right beyond Eastman's the cleaners were WF ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath

My Father was Arthur Harriott who owned Harriott Brothers Butchers Shop (which can be seen at the bottom left-hand corner of the picture) together with his Brother, Edward. We lived in "Old Sarum" which is the ...Read more

A memory of Droxford in 1950 by Pamela Beeching

i am now eighty plus years old and i will do all i can to find my mam and dad. i know they will be together so it will not be hard to find them !!! if i can only get a cuddle from my mam and a arm around my dad i ...Read more

A memory of Cwm by Roy Compton

Our family lived at Lightwater (1 High View Road) ; I passed 11 plus and was sent to Frimley And Camberley County Grammar School, starting in Sept. 1959. One of the first things we had to do was to get the uniform. We went ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by tobypaws2002

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which was ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore by Peter Jewell

My family lived in Waltham Abbey from 1955 to 1961 and living there left a lasting impression on me. I attended Waltham Holy Cross County Primary School during this time and at the ripe old age of 8 ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Abbey in 1960 by Bill Waring

My dad always ensured that we had a "fortnight's"  family holiday each year. A fortnight was 2 weeks - ie fourteen nights. These holidays started in 1949, when I was seven  and continued to up to 1958 when I was 16. In 1949 and ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1949 by Roy Beiley

The picture of the Church is in fact the Old Cranford School but it displayed the church services that were being held. The Holy Anagles Church was a 'nissen type ' building at the back of the Old School. I used to attend the ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1941 by John Humpleman Humpleman