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Soon after I began motorcycling in the mid fifties I began to take what has been a lifelong interest in motorcycle racing. In those days it was a good trek to Brands Hatch as there were no M1 or M25 motorways and the journey ...Read more

A memory of Brands Hatch Circuit by ducatee

I was born in Addlestone in what was Kingthorpe nursing home in 1944 (no nhs then)my father worked for Vickers Armstrong at Byfleet. My father was born in Cailard road Byfleet the same road as my mother was born. He is now 96 years old ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by jenniferchapman67

My name is Brian Wilson, I was born in 1940 down Fen Drove now called Sykemouth Drove, Kirton Holme. Down this drove were farms, small holdings and houses 12 in total, today in 2016 only 4 remain. Ist farm on the ...Read more

A memory of Kirton Holme by John Brian Wilson

I remember my boyhood years in Islip with affection. A favourite summer passtime was catching minnows in the Gallos Brook (affectionately known locally as the Weston Brook, purely because it came to Islip from Weston on the ...Read more

A memory of Islip by imcurrill

I was born at 12 Ashwood Avenue on Peel Brow estate Ramsbottom in 1952. My father after being demobbed from the eighth army in 1945 had always and continued to work in cotton mills. In 1960 ...Read more

A memory of Stubbins by david

Lovely to read some of the reminiscences of old Mitcham, it was such a lovely place to grow up in during the late sixties and early seventies, before changes started happening. I left in 1990, aged 25, before the ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham

My name is Bill Elliott and I have very happy memories of Caverswall as I used to go to the Catholic school in the village along with my brothers Dave and Mike. We lived at that time at Stanley Farm in Caverswall Rd Blythe Bridge. We ...Read more

A memory of Caverswall by ivy.elliott

When I left Stanley Technical School at the end of 1956, I got a job as a 'Trainee' (another word for Apprentice' but without the security of a longer term employment), at Rollason Aerocessories at Croydon Airport, who ...Read more

A memory of Cranford by frank.aylard

My friend and I would take the bus from Hounslow bus station, and dressed in our Sunday best (50's style) go walking along the River Walk from the bridge. I have a photo of us taken by a street photograther who ...Read more

A memory of Richmond by Patricia Symons

My family moved from Woking to Tongham in 1942 into Springpond Cottage in Grange Road - a farm worker’s cottage belonging to Ben Ceasar. Dad was a lorry driver delivering the farm’s vegetables. There was only cold running water ...Read more

A memory of Tongham in 1965 by John Reynolds