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I was born in Moccas at Castle Cottage. My grandmother lived at the common where, on her death I moved with my parents to the common. My father and his father put the fencing around Moccas Park which some of it still remains today.

A memory of Moccas in 1941 by Doris Avery

My email address is brettgavin54@gmail.com, I am two years younger than you, but went Chandos St Boys School, we must of seen each other. Did you have a page boy hair cut,(blonde) when 10 or 11? I'm not sure this site comment is genuine, anyway, if it is real please reply.

A memory of Netherfield in 1972 by Brett Gavin

Born in 1947, I grew up on Babington Road, Streatham. I remember the Home Guard a few houses up and Robin Hanson and I would play on the search lights left over from the war when we were four or five. ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1960 by Paul Chandler

I was born in 1941 and as a child, lived at Park Head Row, Birdsedge. There was little traffic then and we used to play hopscotch on the main road. Around the age of three, whilst swinging on our garden gate, I vividly remember the ...Read more

A memory of Birds Edge in 1944 by Janice Haigh

How we looked forward to a walk to the Town Hall park to feed the ducks, there was one really old and bedraggled one called "charlie the drake"?? or so my nan said!! Once in the Town Hall grounds, we were allowed to run ahead ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1965

I Remember the early Twenties. My mothers family, had a woodturning business, pianos, violins, and such good quality instruments, in Bethnal Green, London, She had two brothers, George and Albert, and a sister Sara. Sara was a ...Read more

A memory of Billericay in 1920

This was the NAAFI shop that served the military quarters at Watchfield, which housed the then many miltary and civilian staff of the Royal Military College of Science, and some of the students at the college, ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield by Richard Hodder

I used to live in the Coach House (now park offices) of Tilgate Mansion, when I was a very little boy. I went to school at Desmond Anderson. The Coach House and courtyard made up four dwellings. The groundsman lived in one, his ...Read more

A memory of Crawley in 1959 by Geoff Frith

I remember as a little kid in the 50's going through Borsdane Wood with my mam n' Aunty Liza - we'd take egg n' tomato butties with us and always head for the Flag Bottom. This was our cheap holiday / Wigan week, I think ...Read more

A memory of Hindley in 1951 by Ray Mac

I remember my earliest memories of Levenshulme (where I have lived for the past 15 years) was as a boy of about 4 or 5 in the early 1970s, going to the dairy on Lloyd Road where the bus terminus was - with my grandfather and also ...Read more

A memory of Levenshulme in 1970