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I recall the post office very well. When I was about twelve, I lived just the other side of the A6 cross roads, so my visits were frequent as this was very much nearer than Maulden post office. I think I’m right in ...Read more

A memory of Clophill

The photograph in front of the Post Office, showing the Morris Oxford Estate car that used to sell newspapers, magazines, and sweets along The Warren and other holiday camps back in the 1960's was my father, Les Chorlton. My brother, ...Read more

A memory of Gronant by terpsichoris

In 1938 my dad was a farm labourer in Wooburn common. He had a row with the farmer and got the sack, we moved down to Wooburn Green in a little cottage by the side of Pedleys yard.. They ran the post office.. We were 5 children ...Read more

A memory of Wooburn Green by vickie.breed

Starting at Eastbury Road, turn right into Green Lane by the Colliver Fisher car showroom and down the hill past the Blue Bird cafe, Barclays Bank, Martins newsagent, Rawlinsons the stationer, cross the road to the ...Read more

A memory of Northwood by aa

These memories have been contributed by Myra Greer. In 1947, when I was 7, my mother and I moved from Salisbury in Wiltshire where my father was stationed at RAF Boscombe Down, to near Llanfarian, where my grandparents had ...Read more

A memory of Llanfarian in 1947

Throughout the first half of the 1950's I would spend every school holiday at Linton, with my maternal grandparents. Initially my mum would accompany me from our home in Trumpington to Drummer Street bus station, ...Read more

A memory of Linton in 1952 by Brian Goodliffe

I moved to Weaverham in 1951 like many others from Liverpool when my dad got a job at ICI. My memories include playing in the felds at Gerrards Farm at the back of our house in Farm Road along with my sister Lesley and ...Read more

A memory of Weaverham in 1957 by Ian Johns

Hello, all I know is my birth certificate shows I lived in Q Block, Rochester Dwellings, 1952. Most grateful to read all your posts of all you guys who once lived there. I was only there from date of my birth 1952 until I was bout 5 years old. Cheers! Alan ( now living in California, USA!!)

A memory of Walker in 1952 by Alan Waldie

My dad bought a brand new house on Craigwell Avenue in 1956. Builder was William Old. I was 4. The house was blue and yellow, 4 houses up on the left from Newberries Avenue. The construction went on for at least two years after moving ...Read more

A memory of Radlett in 1956 by Robin Thompson

Does any one remember or heard parents or grandparents remember Mrs Ardynn Lembcke? I write this post again, and in a more detailed way, because in my previous post, my email address has since then changed to the one I have now. Thank you!

A memory of Burton on the Wolds by Miguel De Althaus