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I seem to remember that this section of Upton Park had its entrance at Sussex Place (at the East end of the High Street, just past Upton Road) Many an hour was spent walking/running through this section on route to Lacelles playing fields on ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Anthony Rees

My Grandparents Mr and Mrs Childs owned the Fox Pub in the village during the second world war. My mother Sheila lived with her grandparents there. It only had a tiny bar and was opposite another larger public house so do not know ...Read more

A memory of Winkfield Row in 1940 by Heather Collins

I was born in Pluckley in1954. My family have lived there for four generations. My great Grandmother Bessie Masters came there from Northiam and her daughter Abbigale Annie Manser (her mum married twice) married my ...Read more

A memory of Pluckley in 1954 by Gillian Barnes

I don't suppose there's anyone alive today who remembers this event but they would have to be about 143 years old! But as a shot in the dark, I wonder if anyone who remembers old Fairs and ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1880 by J Lawrence Prior

I grew up in Cheapside Village and went to Cheapside C of E School when it was still in Cheapside Road between Mrs Clarke's house and Mrs Mc Master's house, opposite the social centre. I remember Mr Goulding the Headmaster who ...Read more

A memory of Ascot in 1960

My wife came across John Baylies memories of Jack Spence. I was the little lad who also helped bring water from the spring. I only lived over the fields and was always down the lake, I remember the rowing boats blue & white ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1958 by Daniel Lees

I was an apprentice jockey at Noel Cannon's Druids Lodge from 1953 when Festoon won the £1000 gns. The lads and us boys all won money that day as we knew she would win! As mentioned in a previous comment - we did know of 'Ray', who had ...Read more

A memory of Druid's Lodge in 1953 by Brian Miller

My mum and dad owned the Greengrocers opposite what is now Sainsburys; in fact my sister and I were both born above the shop. Then my dad had a shop in Bellingham and we moved to Purley; in 1971 we all moved to Eastbourne where dad ...Read more

A memory of West Wickham in 1961 by Tracey Lyons

I have such fond memories of Woolwich, I was born in 1962 in Erith Maternity Hospital in Barnehurst. I lived for a while with grandparents at General Gordan Place before my parents got their own place at 17b Glendale Road, Erith. I ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich by Michael Hedley

My grandparents, Albert and Marjorie Walker, moved into the Red Lion in 1954. Following my grandfather's death in 1967 my grandmother continued as landlady until her retirement in ...Read more

A memory of Lowick Bridge in 1954 by Angela Athersmith