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I was born in NW London. My first visit to Woburn Sands was about 1950 when my Uncle Ted and Aunt Ada moved here. They lived at the 'Dene' Aspley Hill. Aunt Ada did the housework for Mrs Russell the owner of the 'Dene' and my uncle ...Read more

A memory of Woburn Sands in 1950 by Roy Batham

 DOES ANYONE EVER ANSWER TO OUR MEMORIES?. THERE MUST BE SOMEONE OUT THERE  COME ON JOIN IN   I joined Tunbridge Wells telephone exchange September 1948.  I remember so well the evening the man would ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1940 by Daphne Hooker Married Name Russell

My family Ken and Joan Blake owned the Church Hill Stores (opposite the Church) from 1945 to the early 50's then we lived in the village until 1957. I have many memories of my time in Finchingfield and many faces and ...Read more

A memory of Finchingfield in 1940 by Lesley Alexander

I would like to add a memory of Boxford, no, wonderful memories that I have of Boxford 65 years ago. As a child of four, I was evacuated with my grandmother Mary Jane Farthing, nee Carpenter, to Boxford to stay with her ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1930 by Alan Lloyd

I lived on Frenchbarn Lane just across from St Peters church from 1960 to 1972, I was 5yrs old when I moved there. Coming from Salford docks area it was like moving into one of Enid Blytons books. A real farm just up the ...Read more

A memory of Blackley by Neil Edwards

My Grandfather George Thomas Cooper 1880 to 1957 lived at Hebron a Detached Victorian House ( which is opposite what today is Coopers Place, named after my late Father Phillip George Cooper ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common by Andrew Cooper

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

Drayton Jottings. Auntie Alice, in Kings Avenue, regularly seen, out on her front doorstep, she kept it clean, the 'raddled' red stone was buffed to a shine, 'Old fashioned traditions', here continued,so fine. one day, from ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of the ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by John Stroud

Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings in ...Read more

A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by James Irvine