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I lived opposite Albury Manor School, in Taynton Drive, from c1964 to 1981. I never attended the school as I passed my 11-plus and went to Reigate County School for Girls. However, my mum used to go to evening classes there and I ...Read more

A memory of Merstham

I was born in Balham General in 1940 to my parents who lived on Shirly Grove, just off Lavender Hill. I made many trips to the "Granada" in my time. I was just leaving the Granada with my parents one evening about 1943/4 when a ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by Michael Longhurst

Essex has the unhappy distinction of having executed more witches than any other county in England’s history, and the first major trial for witchcraft itself, as the main indictment, took place in Chelmsford in ...Read more

A memory of Manningtree by Julia Skinner

As a child brought up in an urban district of Manchester, it was nice to visit my grandparents who lived on the Nabb, their names were Joseph and Mary Hayward. Their house was either number three or five; it had 2 ...Read more

A memory of Oakengates in 1959 by Kenneth Hayward

I lived in Church Lane, Kingsbury at Elvin Court and went to Tylerscroft after leaving Fryent infant and junior school. I have very fond memories of Tylers as we called it back in them days. I remember Mr Perkins ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1957 by Ray Hathaway

What a difficult thing it is to write down all you want to! So much in our memories ... I am the curator of the Essex Fire Museum which is based at Grays fire station in Hogg Lane. I was born in Grays in June ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Roger Pickett

Late 1949 early 1950 I stayed with my mother, Mrs Dorothy Violet Lee (nee Gobbitt) at The Convent, Bocking. Born 1943 I would have been aged 6-7yrs. My time there was to await the move into our new home at 140 Church Street, ...Read more

A memory of Bocking in 1950 by Diana Lee Gobbitt

There was another children's home in Hitchen Hatch Lane, Sevenoaks which I believe was called Hitchen Hatch House. I do remember calling there once, can't remember why. The Rock House home was in Chipstead Lane and I had a ...Read more

A memory of Riverhead in 1954

I lived over the toyshop in Coldharbour Lane from 1942 to 1954. I went to Townfield Infant School and then to the Juniors, but passed the 11+ and went on to Ealing County Grammar School in 1948. Our toilets were open to the sky ...Read more

A memory of Hayes by David Woolf

My mother was sent away to boarding school in 1921, when she was eight years old. For various reasons, she could not go home (to Cardiff) during the summer holidays and so she and her four brothers spent ...Read more

A memory of Rugeley in 1920 by Henrietta Edwards