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We moved into a brand new Council House on this estate at 8, Hillside Crescent about 1950-51 and lived there until 1960. Before that we were housed in a Nissan Hut in Yateley. My Dad was a ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by miss_devinette

My father now 91 was brought up in Peckham, his uncle sold bundles of wood , that people used to get their coal fires burning, from a horse and cart. He lived, in what he describes as an old farm house, in Naylor Road. He says there was a ...Read more

A memory of Peckham by mabenf

My husband Chistopher John Hill was born in Scarborough. His Grandma, Mary Gloyne, ran a small Guest House there 61 Ramsey Street, after her husband, Percy Gloyne, was killed two days before the end of World War 1. She ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough by Margaret Ann Hill

This was one of the hotels/public houses owned by Mr.& Mrs. R.J.Gillman; they were my grandparents. My parents visited them taking me with them. My cousin Clive and I went exploring, oh boy! my finger slipped threw ...Read more

A memory of Bromsgrove in 1942 by Pamela Claire Phillips

The side road (foreground) was one of two streets in Digswell both called Station Road! To remove the confusion, this one was renamed Adele Avenue some time before 1937, after the lady of the only house in the street ...Read more

A memory of Digswell in 1978 by Peter Neville

I was born down Nocton fen in 1950 at Middle Farm. My dad worked for Smiths Crisps Estates. We moved to Partridge Farm when I was about 6 or 7 and dad looked after the cows in winter and during the summer worked in the ...Read more

A memory of Nocton Fen in 1950 by Emily Greaves

My auntie, Rosina Corps, lived in the house next door with her mother and two other sisters, Elizabeth and Mary.

A memory of Amesbury by Jacqueline Hayes

I was born in 1960 in Great Barr but moved to Dawlish Rd in 1964 until 1968 with my elder brother Brian. My mother, Irene, ran the shop and my father Dennis worked at GEC Witton. I went to Tiverton Rd School and we lived in the 'Mace' ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1965 by Paul Day

I was sent to Hest Bank during part of the 2nd world war, as an evacuee. I can say that I really don't remember much about it only that it was summertime. I was wearing a pair of multi coloured shorts, and I sat down on a chair and got ...Read more

A memory of Hest Bank in 1943 by Rita Burton

My own memories date from 1956 when I went on a family holiday to stay with my mother's carer where she was evacuated in WW2. My mum was there from 1939 to 1943 at least, and she stayed with a Mrs Tancock, a widow, who ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert in 1940 by Susan Coleman