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I was only a few months old when our family moved to 122 Marsala Road, Ladywell in 1949. I was ten years of age when we moved from Ladywell to Dartford in August 1959 but there are many different and varied things ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1958 by Tony Brown

Hi Marion,met your dad in the Laughing Fox pub in Alexandria when he came for holiday, I knew who he was for years but didn't know him to talk to, I knew his brother Eric better as he was more my age. I actually knew them from when they ...Read more

A memory of Renton in 2000 by Bernard Boyle

When I was a little girl, my mother, Violet Helmore, would take me into Welsh's regularly to do her shopping. Biscuits could be bought loose then as could sugar tea etc. I always thought that I was a good little girl, but ...Read more

A memory of Midsomer Norton in 1954 by Diane Shearn

When I was growing up in Box, Glovers Lane was nicknamed 'The Slip'. Some witty person always painted out the 'G' on the street sign.

A memory of Box

Just before the 1960’s transformed our innocent lives, all us village boys had a limited choice of tonsorial art; indeed you could count the number of available haircuts (styles wasn’t a word used for men or boys) on ...Read more

A memory of Sherington in 1960

When I was a young lad my father Gwilym Jones and Joe Collins of Avondale Street (Joe was, during the 1939-45 war, the army lightweight boxing champion of India) My father had been a professional boxer in his earlier years.They opened up a ...Read more

A memory of Ynysboeth in 1948 by Royden Jones

Those of us at Colerne school who passed our 'scholarship' exam at the age of about eleven usually went on to Chippenham Secondary School, which probably goes under a different name now: it's at Hardenhuish, ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1940 by John Bunting

My grandfather was born in Cobham on Painshill. My memory is that it was on a slight hill with a slight bend, the Greenline bus used to stop near the old home, it was a cottage with a porch and had a very thick door with big ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1946 by Alan Rosher

Though I have some recall of the 1940s - eg starting school in 1948 at the age of three and a half and being reluctant to get off a rocking horse on the first day, it was the 1950s that really kicked in - to the accompaniment of songs like ...Read more

A memory of Corwen in 1950 by Gareth Hughes

The family moved from Reay in Caithness to Sorbie in 1932 - I was 2 years old and had a sister who was 12 years old and a brother, 10 years old, so there was a huge difference in ages and I was brought up as ...Read more

A memory of Sorbie in 1930 by Fionn Young