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What a surprise to find a picture of Pinehurst Caravan Park, very likely the only postcard to survive! The site was in Hewarts Lane, Rose Green. My late mother and my great-aunt purchased a caravan 'Romany' on the site and ...Read more

A memory of Aldwick in 1958 by Colin Read

Hi all, I used to go to a riding school at Keston called Keston Court Riding School. Anybody remember it? I would also go to the ponds sometimes with my family or take the dog for a walk there but it was a bit far for him, I lived in ...Read more

A memory of Keston by Denise Hyde

I lived in Smoke Lane, Reigate, for the first 13 years of my life and have very happy memories of that time. I attended North Bank Preparatory School in Smoke Lane from 1952 until 1958 and then Reigate Priory County Secondary ...Read more

A memory of Reigate in 1950 by Christine Iqbal

My grandparents, Bill and Jean Woodward, were the publicans of the Papermaker's Arms when I was born in 1953. My uncle John Woodward also ran it for a while. I am the daughter of their middle son Ronald, who sadly died in ...Read more

A memory of Hawley by Deborah Morgan Smith

I have fond memories of Barking back in the early sixtys.,Oh I know its a dump now, dirty and no charm at all, but back then it was a place to be proud of. The fair held at Barking park (sadly not the park it was then), the carnival, ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1965 by Kevin Edwards

My father, Ken Hatton, worked as a surveyor with Cementation, a civil engineering company from Bentley Nr. Doncaster. They were driving a water tunnel under the Trough of Bowland. At that time we lived in Clitheroe ...Read more

A memory of Slaidburn in 1951 by Stan Hatton

I must have around 7 years old when my mother used to take me along Bramley Town Street, where in those times it was back to back houses and shops. I was taken regularly to the ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1958 by Sam Hamblett

It seems like forever ago that I lived in Royston. I remember it with fondness, Notton woods, the long summer days lasting forever, riding our motorcycles down the lines. I will cherish living there all my life.  

A memory of Royston in 1978 by First Name Last Name

I lived next door to Mr Dales newsagents on Highfield Road in Bramley. Opposite were rows of terraces in those days with a shop on the end of each terrace. A chip shop on the end of the first row and a ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1968 by Angela Burgoyne

Looking back now I think I must have been terrified when my dad took my sister and I on the swing boats which swung out so far you could see the water of the river underneath you. As you pulled ...Read more

A memory of Stourport-on-Severn by Kathy Adams Nee Cook