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I remember using the Larkswood swimming pool in all weathers, even having to break the ice. I also remember the horrible changing rooms and sitting for hours on the hills - sometimes never bothering to swim. You ...Read more

A memory of South Harefield in 1960 by Branch Christine

I was born at 52 The Glade in 1960 and can remember a happy childhood, although my mum was a single mother (unusual then) and we struggled with money. I remember the parade of shops near me up the hill and especially the ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1974 by Gillian Battersby

I grew up at the Masonic Arms in Belle View, Shrewsbury. When I was a child my mother and I used to cycle to Bomere Pool near Bayston Hill to pick primroses in the spring. She used to tell me about the legends ...Read more

A memory of Bayston Hill in 1956 by Sylvia Ashton

I was born in Marbury in 1954. My name is Christine Campbell and I was one of 6 children born to Paul and Kathleen Campbell. My dad worked for ICI. We were allowed to swim in the local open air swimming pool for free. The ...Read more

A memory of Marbury in 1954 by Christine Campbell

As a pupil at Gosport High School, I had to attend swimming lessons first thing in the morning each week in the open-air, unheated pool at Gosport, in the school term following Easter. It was ...Read more

A memory of Gosport in 1953 by David Wybrow

This is the first swimming pool I ever saw and where I learned to swim. I went to the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and this is where we were taken, once a week, for our swimmimg lessons. I was placed into care when I was 11 years ...Read more

A memory of Horncastle by Ray Cooke

My grand parents lived in Rusper for many years and their house was next to the butchers' shop on the same side of the road as the church. I can remember visiting my grandparents, as a school boy and my grandfather was a local ...Read more

A memory of Rusper in 1940 by Peter Foster

I was in the top year at Waltham Holy Cross County Primary in 1966. We took the 9th centenary of 1066 very seriously, given King Harold's connection with the Abbey. I wrote and directed a film for the school ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Abbey in 1966 by Aileen Simkins

I was born in Burnt Oak in July 1956 in North Road - the same house that my mother was born in.  My grandparents lived in North Road for many years until North Road, South Road and East Road were compulsory purchased by Barnet ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1956 by Sandra Gibney

My parents George and Phyllis Stroud ran the Hotham Club in Waterloo Square - now the HQ of the RAFA Bognor branch. After National Service I worked first for Lec Refrigeration as a welder and then as a porter at the War Memorial ...Read more

A memory of Bognor Regis in 1960 by John Stroud