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I attended Kingsdale school and lived on kingswood estate, I remember doing the cross country at school through the toll gate and my dad used to be a taxi driver and there used to be a man standing there as you had to pay to go ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich in 1980 by Jenna Goddard

This picture stirs memories, I stayed in two of the flats above the shops in the 70/80's, & also lived in a house in Merton Road, which is just around the corner from the library - now a betting shop. First, ...Read more

A memory of Malvern Link by bru.enzer

I just had contact recently with a girl that went to Suntrap at the same time as me. Her name is Olwyn Weaver. My name is Nicholas Brown. I attended ST school from mid April 1967 to July 1968. It was a school ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by nickbrown0956

My father was from Newton Le Willow, and spent his childhood at 73 Oak Avenue. As a child that grew up in cheshire where my father moved to on getting married, i would go with my parents to the same house to visit my grandmother. I ...Read more

A memory of Earlestown by Raymond Jones

I was born in a little house adjoining the Ostrich Inn in Colnbrook in 1938 my Father was a pastry cook confectioner who worked at Gilsons bakery at the end of the high street was previously called Wellers. I arrived in the front room before ...Read more

A memory of Colnbrook by Wendy Fielder

I don't know if this message is relevant to this website. My story is about my Dobson ancestors who lived in Selside, Cumbria for the first half of the 19th Century. My GrGrGrGrandparents lived in the same house in Selside ...Read more

A memory of Selside by Vera Yates

Denton School Co. Durham 1846 I have my Great, Great Grandfathers maths exercise book. On the preface it says Jacop Graingers book Denton School July 8th 1846. The first half of the book is Practical Geometry with the ...Read more

A memory of Denton by David Strachan

or thereabouts. Blackcurrant picking somewhere in the Drayton area, the smell of them today knocks 60 years off my age. Used to go fruit-picking during the Summer holidays with Janet Basham who lived on Highland Road, ...Read more

A memory of Drayton in 1949 by Pat Bye

Jennifer and I started our married life in South Wales in a little village called Caio, at that time all Welsh speaking. You may have gathered from my writings I was recalled back into the army for the campaign that was called The Suez ...Read more

A memory of Caio in 1956 by George Larbey

The memory of that quaint old village reminds me when we lived there in the 1950s, in the small white cottage called (Welsh sounding) Te Revil, or Te Effiel. I was two years old, a twin with my sister Carol, the local children took us ...Read more

A memory of Llwyngwril in 1950 by Richard Lowe