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I grew up in Marlow during the 60s. I have wonderful memories of a really free childhood of bike rides, exploring the woods, rowing a very old boat on the river, even swimming which my mum never found out about , and just general ...Read more

A memory of Marlow in 1960 by Miss M

My family first came to live in Studwell Lodge, which they bought from the Bruce family,  when my father retired from farming in Berkshire at the age of fifty five. It was then 1959 and I, as a ...Read more

A memory of Droxford in 1960 by Charles Skipwith

This is the view looking east from the "house" I was in, PEELE A. We used to march into the dining hall, seen beneath the tower on the left, for our meals.  We had a standard bearer carrying the house flag heading ...Read more

A memory of Horsham in 1940 by Brian Haynes

I walked and played down here. My aunty and uncle owned one of the house boats nearby and my father worked at Marshalls quarry/mill for a while. The area has changed a lot ,mostly to car parking. We rode our bikes round Little Swits and often ...Read more

A memory of Hessle in 1959 by Chris Lead

I was born in Maitland Buildings in Helensburgh in 1950 moved to Shandon and then moved to Queens Crescent. I went  to primary school at Shore Road, I remember teachers were two sisters, I think they were called the Miss Robinsons. ...Read more

A memory of Garelochhead in 1960 by Ioyce Malloch

As a family, we used to visit Canvey quite often during the summers of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and getting onto Canvey from the A13 was quite stressful in those days, you had to turn at the Tarpots and follow the ...Read more

A memory of Hadleigh in 1958 by Sydney Claydon

I was born in a newly built house in Laurel Avenue - and was told whilst being built my mum and dad had gotten to choose which one they wanted!  The midwife who delivered me was Miss Reece, who I believe lived in Wickford until she ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1955 by Lnda Golding

My family moved to Dagenham from Northampton in December 1953. My first real memory of the borough was being lost on the day we moved in, after being sent to get some milk and sugar from the local shops, which would have been in ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1953 by Sydney Claydon

I remember a shop on this parade where you could take a broken dolly to be repaired in a ' hospital. I lived in Blackfen, so only a short walk down to the Oval. Or you could ride on a single decker bus.

A memory of Sidcup in 1940 by Mary Donnachie

The white building on the right used to be called Chiesmans. Trams used to run along the street. In the 1950s in thick smog I had to wait for hours for a bus to eventually arrive to take me as far as Well Hall, where I had to walk from there to ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1945 by Mary Donnachie