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"Thieves! Bloody villains and thieves, that's all they are. Makes my blood boil. I can't kill enough of the sods... no Sir!" I hadn't the heart to point out that I was actually a lover of all birds for ...Read more

A memory of Lower Radley

I was born Leslie Dennis Crutch in Grove Road 1948. My brother Ken was born 9 months after dad (Ronald Kenneth) had gone to Normandy as part of the landings - I was born 9 months after he was demobbed (funny that) to mum Winifred ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Les Saunders

Greetings from Canada. Although I have never visited England I have long had a great admiration of Wales. My Great Grandfather who was born in London in 1835 of Welsh parents wrote many notations in margins of a ...Read more

A memory of Pembroke by Edgar Johns

Oh yes, I remember the cafe well. Used to come down the brow from St. Marks at lunchtime to get sherbert dips etc. The counter was high and I could only just see over the top. Also, sometimes after Sunday School ...Read more

A memory of Worsley by Lynette Foster

You can take the boy out of south London, but you can't take south London out of the boy. The songs on this album, 'The Hobo Manifesto', were inspired by growing up in London and the music that influenced me as a ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by Arthur Kitchener

I was born Joan Mary Waters and lived in George Street, which is now Greenway Avenue, Levenshulme. We had a fish and chip shop next door but one, and when I visited Levenshulme in 2005 I believe it had ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1954 by Joan Charrison

In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more

A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by John S. Batts

I was 1 of 9 children, we were placed at 83 Hunters Hill. I went to Garlands Schhool. My friends were Sharon Mallem, Jackie Baily, Jackie Bruce, Connie Sharky. I remember others ie the Farmers, Beals, Kemps, Longs,and ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common in 1972 by Debbie Walker

What a great site this is – I love sharing everyone’s memories. It brought back my childhood and names I had forgotten. I moved from Scotland to Mitcham in 1946 when I was four. Mum, Dad, my sisters Margaret and Florence and me all moved ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Betty Brock

Mitcham a lovely little place, here you used to catch the buses to Sutton and beyond, the picture house and opposite the pictures used to be a sweet shop where I can remember Mars bars used to cost 2/6 in old money, gobstobbers that ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1963 by David Buettner Banks