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After staying in Quay Cottage several times and loving every one of them I still miss going back. On one visit I asked some local friends round for a BBQ , after a quick look around this original house I showed them the ...Read more

A memory of Port Isaac in 1995

My story begins in 1951. Born in London but moved to Easington Way three months later, then onto Cruick Avenue. House number 107, opposite Mardyke School. My first memory is 1956? Starting junior school, first day ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1952 by William Forrest

I was born in Beverley in August 1963 and my parents Gladys and Arthur Marchant lived at 16 Waterside Road, which I assume from other contributors used to be Beck Road South. I remember Barkers and Lee Smith animal feed mill across ...Read more

A memory of Beverley in 1963 by Philip Marchant

I was born in Harbour Street in 1946 then in 1948; moved to one of the new houses built post war (22 Louden Place). I remember well all the families; Herries, Cronnie, Cowan, Eadie, Hughes, Parker, McCallum, Brown, McDowall, ...Read more

A memory of Creetown in 1946 by Janice Maxwell

There was a tunnel in the basement of Nell Gwynne's old house, rumoured to lead to the king's bedroom in Windsor Castle. I worked in the restaurant next door which used to be part of the same house and the start of the tunnel was still very visible in the basement.

A memory of Windsor

I lived in Whitfield Place one street down from The Queens Hall picture house later called The Queens Dance Hall; also danced in The Kingsland, The Legion beside the Park Mikes, Byrne Ave and many others. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1950 by Ken Mc Guire

In 1950 I lived with my parents in Church House - the partially obscured building on the right. Except for three years during the war I lived there from 1938 to 1958. I remember the spire of the church being struck by ...Read more

A memory of Cuckfield in 1950 by J R G Edwards

73,Birch Road is where I lived from 1960 onwards. My family moved there in 1960 and I went to George Road School in 1962 during the coldest winter ever. The toilets used to freeze which was great as we would get time off as ...Read more

A memory of Godalming in 1860 by Pete Covey

I spent many happy hours in the late 1940's rowing on the Knap Lake. At the time I was living in what was then called Cold Knap Farm (now Cole Farm), my father being the gardener to the owners of the White House. I lived there from birth ...Read more

A memory of Barry in 1940 by Margaret Robinson

My wife Ann lived at 134 Preston Road, sadly no longer a 4 bedroom house. She moved there in 1962 and we both lived with her parents when we married in 1966; before we moved to our own home in 67. I remember that sometimes, before we ...Read more

A memory of Harrow in 1963 by Peter Grant