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Matthew Kirton, owner of Walbottle brick works, used to arrange for this river ferry to take Sunday School and other outings down river to North Shields and back, the ferry was called 'Blue Bonnet'.

A memory of Newburn in 1910 by David Tooke

Being born in a house opposite the Angel pub in 1952, and having a family history going back over 300 hundred years in the village, I think we were a local family. Those memories of the school holiday times will last a ...Read more

A memory of Stanton by Colin Fordham

I worked as Baker- Pastry cook at The Salcombe Hotel when Peter Ryder was the owner. It was a great job, the bakery had a lovely view over the estuary & I first worked with old 'Billy' Carter who was in his 70s then & ...Read more

A memory of Salcombe by Ian Mabbitt

Hello George I lived in Stanford 1947-1971. The house opposite the church was where Dr. Morris lived, I believe. The surgery was round the corner in what felt like old stables. It was a fine house but was later ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by Colin Ablitt

Hello Former RAF Bletchley 'inmates,' I spent a couple of happy years at RAF Bletchley which I would describe as just a dormitory station where we ate, slept and relaxed during off-duty hours from our work at RAF ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1950 by Walter Bourne

I remember living in the post war prefabs,in I think it was called Castle Hill Close,number 4,right next to a power pylon.Yoy could walk across an empty field to the New Addington Hotel,then into Addington.I can always ...Read more

A memory of New Addington in 1948 by James Young

One day I went to Porthcawl with my friend, we had a lovely day there except that I lost one of my shoes in the sand. My friend's dad was staying at a caravan down there so we went to visit him, he made me a sort of mule type ...Read more

A memory of Tondu in 1962 by Eira Waite

Looking at some of these old photos of Addlestone bought back some happy memories, even though there were some hard times, at least for my parents, such as going down the air raid shelters which was in Victoria ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1945 by Alan Palmer

I started my first job at UDT in George Street, Croydon in 1957 (age 15). I met my husband at the Orchid Ballroom, Purley on 21 May 1960 and left my job in London to work at Milne & Russell, South Croydon prior to getting married in ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1957 by S D Hunt

I was directed to this site by a friend who was convinced one of the contributors must have been my brother, because it mentioned that his father ran a fish stall in South Harrow Market (our father did) and how ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow by David Lowe