Search Results

Fordington has changed a lot over the years in that there has been much infilling with houses. At the top of Pound Lane was Moule's Coffee Tavern which was used as a hall and a community space. Nearly opposite over the High Street, ...Read more

A memory of Fordington Down in 1964

I was born in Cove in 1961 in a house called Ermington in Fleet Road. My parents cannot remember the house having a street number and apparently now the name on the house is gone. I am soon to make a nostalgic trip back to my birth place ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1961 by Pauline Clayton

There was Brownies, Girl Guides, Campanology too. Junior School, Sunday School, lots to learn and do. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Coronation, with bunting and fancy dress for us children's celebration. ...Read more

A memory of Billingborough in 1953 by Sheila Parker

I was born at Lintzford in the 1940's. A lovely safe place to live for everyone there. The neighbours were always available to help each other out, our life was safe and secure. I always remember going up to 'Table Rock' where my ...Read more

A memory of Lintzford by Val Nichols

Have to say reading the entries of everyone’s memories is simply wonderful. Both my parents grew up in Mitcham, my father John Stockley who was Mitcham born and bred, married my mother Jean Nightingale in the church in Church Road back in ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1969 by Paul Nightingale

I lived at 1 St. George's Close, off Chalk Pit Avenue from 1946 to 1954. At first, the Chalk Pit was still there, as was the Oast House, where the shops are now on the corner of Chalk Pit Avenue and Main Road. I first went ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1946 by Terry Button

My mum was born there but came to Wales when war broke out as she was in care at the time. She stayed with a couple who had lost their own child and who eventually 'adopted' her so she never returned, but ...Read more

A memory of Uckfield in 1960 by Barbra Breeze

I was born in 1942 and since I was 8 have returned to Weymouth many times since. What priceless memories I have of this place and people that come to mind, school and village coach trips from Norton Fitzwarren in Somerset with our ...Read more

A memory of Weymouth by Gerald Bull

I was at Bisley from autumn of 1955 at age 13 & left in the summer of 1958 My House No. was 262. A few mates whose names I remember 'Ned' Kelly, John Clark (from Southend) 'Granny' Green, Roy Potts ...Read more

A memory of Bisley in 1957 by Mike Graves

I lived in Derrinton Road from the 1940s to the 1960s. We moved there after being bombed out at age of two. Had a good childhood even in war time. Dad was in the R.A F, mum was busy, so my elder brother and I had plenty of freedom. We ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Ronald Stanley