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Such a very small house, this semi of theirs, So very squashed-up in between Two others the same, but it gave itself airs With the front door in Dark Cabbage Green. Why on earth I was there, in this very small house, Quite ...Read more

A memory of Watford by Paul Wigmore

Not so sure of the date, I was born in the cottage hospital in 1936 and spent all my holidays with my grandparents the Brockbanks who had a pub in North Lane called the Heroes of Lucknow. I had many trips to the Lido with my brother, we ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1947 by Anne Vines

These are the memories of my childhood week-ends and holidays, spent with my Uncle Harold and Aunt Lucy Mogridge at Fontmell Parva. My maternal grandmother Annie Farwell lived at Fontmell Parva for 50 years, in the ...Read more

A memory of Fontmell Parva in 1950 by Helen Brockway

I was born in Durham 1943, I lived with my grandparents at 51 Old Elvet opposite the what was then the Shire Hall. My grandparents ran a boarding house where lots of business people would stay some from America and Canada ...Read more

A memory of Durham by Andrew Eves

We moved to Selsdon in 1952 from Blackheath and I started primary school which was on the ground floor of the building in the picture. We lived at 4 Foxearth Road up until 1972 when my mother, who was widowed in 1962, moved to ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon in 1952 by Jacqueline Cook

I was born in 1938 in a cottage on theRroseneath Castle estate where my father was a gardner at the castle, £2 a week free house and a ton of coal a year. The boat came in at high tide offloaded 60 ton coal and provisions all removed by ...Read more

A memory of Ardpeaton

I was born at 105 John Street Blaydon on 25/8/1943. Moved to the big house above the schools on the left hand side,The Curatage. Above that was Tweddles farm; Thornton Weddle ran the farm and his brother had a butchers shop at Blaydon. I ...Read more

A memory of Blaydon in 1943

My great grandmother, Cecelia Mary Gore, b. 1887 - the grand daughter of an earl, eloped with a gardener, Albert Reynolds, in the early 1910s. They married, had four children. Win, my grandmother was one of them, Albert a son ...Read more

A memory of Thakeham in 1910

David, Kim, Angela and Andrew Littley. We grew up in Bonvilston at number 2 Glanmorfa Cottages; our grandparents lived next door at number 1. We went to school in St Nicholas and later to Radyr Comprehensive. We emigrated to South Africa ...Read more

A memory of Bonvilston by Kim Steel

The 'modern' building in the middle of the picture is the telephone exchange not blending in with the rest of the scenery! The bus stop was for Weybridge's only 'red' bus route the 219 from Kingston Bus Garage to ...Read more

A memory of Weybridge in 1965 by Nick Leppard