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I was born down Roman Road Ilford sadly as long ado as 1947 but life in Ilford was good. Went to Mount Secondary School but left at the age of 14 and started work as a jnr legal secretary in a firm in Cranbrook Road. It was so great ...Read more

A memory of Ilford by chrishicks4honey

As soon as I was old enough to drive, my Dad taught me, we used to drive down to Godstone from Kenley quite often and we would go to either the Hare & Hounds or the White Hart for a beer, sometimes a meal. In my courting ...Read more

A memory of Godstone by David Marshall

Over the road from the pub was were we used to have to go to mrs loaches .It was a tiny little shop, Could my mum have a quarter of boiled ham.the reply would be no but I've got some nice cheese.or tell your mother we've ...Read more

A memory of Bradley by Eddie Potts

I was born in Dale St off Hume Hall Lane. Our neighbours were the Rushtons and the Alan's. I remember, in the early fifties, the milk man with his horse and cart and also the ice cream horse drawn carriage - it had two large ...Read more

A memory of Miles Platting by franciscaine7

I was born in Gosport in 1929, my father was a long serving seaman in the Royal Navy and so our family life was all things navy - so Stokes Bay was a big part of our lives. I had three elder sisters who were frequently ...Read more

A memory of Stokes Bay by Ronald Bennett

My mothers parents lived at 3 Mill Lane Cottages, Mill Lane, Sindlesham. I would stay with them in my school holidays. My grandad, John Gibbs, worked as a cowman on the owners farm, I think he was called Mr Curl. ...Read more

A memory of Sindlesham by wendasparey

“My name was Pat Mayer, I used to live at 38 Ash Grove , not far from Keith and Janet Tucker as she was then, until 1961 when I got married, I was brought up during the war years and after with Beryl Prangley and Jacky ...Read more

A memory of Staines by paulinelindley123

My mother spoke of visiting Swatragh when she was a child in the 1930s. Her Aunty lived there with her daughter Minnie who had Downs Syndrome. Minnie was an adult at that time and helped her mother round the very small property that they ...Read more

A memory of Swatragh

50 years ago I got on a Don Everall Coach at 9pm at the Bull Stake Darlaston. We travelled through the night arriving around 8am on Bodmin moor where we changed coaches for the remainder of the journey to Telawne. I ...Read more

A memory of Trelawne Manor by g.sheldon

Those balmy hot summer days on school holidays in the early to mid. 50's. Walking down the lane at the side of Haygate Cemetery, across the Holyhead Road, up Earcall Lane (picking ripe blackberries) to the Forest ...Read more

A memory of Wellington by menakajemma606