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The road in the picture, St Mildred's, is where I grew up, opposite the "rec". As a young lad growing up, Minster offered all sorts of adventures; the marshes, the river Stour, Watchester Lane, the woods, fishing, ...Read more

A memory of Minster by Andrew Hankin

I remember my relatively short time in Wembley with great affection. At my mother's instigation we moved from Willesden to Lonsdale Avenue, Wembley, in 1953 when I was fourteen. My father paid the princely sum of just ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1953 by William (Bill) Rowan

As a boy I was shipped off in the summer holidays from the family farm in Kent to stay with Grandparents at 15 Ellison Road. I soon developed a fascination for the trains and would spend most days on the station courtesy ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1959 by Lynn Woods

I grew up in Wembley (Monks Park area) and attended Oakington Manor Primary and then Wembley County Grammar. After school I worked and trained as a nursery nurse at Roundwood Park nursery in Willesden. I was married at Park Lane ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Elaine Delaney

Moved to wylie rd. on the havelock estate from western rd. When I was around 8yrs.old went to George Tomlinson junior school then onto the new Featherstone secondary school in western road It was a brilliant school with all the ...Read more

A memory of Southall by kenneth.roberts203

Not quite a historical memory. But only last year I began some serious searching into my father's mother's family. She died when he was a wee child, and he lost touch with her family. He is now 94 years old, and this year I ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 2013 by Lavinia Moore

I was born in 1958 in the Perivale Maternity hospital off the Western Avenue. I lived for my first few years in Goring Way and then Queens Avenue until leaving the area in 1973. Memories etched on my mind: ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Ian Buck

Whilst visiting an elderly uncle in Kent about five years ago, he chanced to show me some old family photographs. Having a very accute memory I noticed a photograph of a man who I called uncle Bill, at his farm ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Rochford in 1944 by Keith Trotman

I was born in Brook Street in the end of terrace house next to Rooksby's, the butchers shop at the junction of Horsa Road, and lived there until I was married at the age of 21. My aunt (Elizabeth) Cis Luck and ...Read more

A memory of Northumberland Heath by lowman536

My family moved to Shard End in 1951 to 11 Freasley Road. The estate was in its first stages then, no shops and no bus service, it was a walk to Lea village for the bus across the old bailey bridge. There was a lot of open ground in those ...Read more

A memory of Shard End by keng2009