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1970 - 1984: As you look at this photo the last building on the right, the barn like cottage with the small window, is Rose View. My mum and dad bought it for £1,000 in 1970, and set to work modernising it as I was due 1971 and my brother ...Read more

A memory of Polgooth in 1970 by Tami Cross Halls

George Robert Brown was my Grandfather. He was manager (or whatever the title was) in the Rose and Crown from 1950/51 until 1953/54. I lived there as a baby, born 1st March 1953. Although some years younger I feel an affinity with ...Read more

A memory of Grantchester in 1953 by Steven Missen

This photo is of Rough Stones Farm, Walsden which in 1960 was owned by my grandfather and is still in the family.

A memory of Walsden in 1960 by Robert Hudson

My Father Henry (Jim) Griffiths lived with his eight brothers and sisters in the Round house, which I think was up the ally next to the Postoffice. His mother was Alice Griffiths, she brought up all these children on her own. I wonder if anyone has a photo of the round house?

A memory of Raglan in 1930 by Sidney Griffiths

Is it possible that the roundabout in the photo is earlier than 1955? I cannot remember a roundabout there, just a small island which traffic worked around, but I could be mistaken.

A memory of Upper Norwood in 1952 by Alan Baker

My father in law grew up in Cornwall in the 1920's he was Desmond Rowe and had a sister born 1923 called Cynthia Joan Rowe, his mother was Maud Mary Rowe and they lived in No 1 New Row in Treskillard, I have been researching the ...Read more

A memory of Camborne by nickyrowe69

It must have been in the early 1950s when an Aunt and Uncle, actually cousins of my mother's from Bolton, came to visit on holiday. In those days I remember there were rowing boats for hire from the boathouse moored near the entrance ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple by Peter Blackmore

I went to Devonshire Hill School from 1940 - 1946 then to St. Katherines College. Always done my mum's shopping when I was little as I lived in Rowland Hill Avenue. We shopped at the nearest which was in Cambridge Road and White ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1940 by June Hamilton

Another chap I clearly remember in the year I worked at Law Junction was Roy Hamilton who lived in a cottage overlooking the station. Like the old gentleman who was frequently drunk, Roy was also disabled and walked with the aid of two ...Read more

A memory of Law by John Cunningham

My grandmother worked as a nurse at the Royal Arsenal and was killed by a V1 flying bomb on July 27th 1944; she was in the Taylors shop at the time. 4 killed and 73 wounded. Unfortunately Daisy swopped duty with another that ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1944 by Barbara Saunders