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I lived in South Harrow from birth in 1945 in 125 Roxeth Green Avenue. I attended Roxeth Hill primary school until failing the eleven plus and then went to Lascelles Secondary Modern. Not the best of pupils although I was in ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1959 by Christopher West

I was born in Birmingham in 1943. My parents and my aunt and uncle (Les and Beat Bradshaw) purchased The Mentone in The Parks around 1949. A double decker bus ran over my leg directly outside Minehead Hospital. ...Read more

A memory of Minehead in 1949 by Kevin Phillips

My parents ran the George and Dragon. I can just about remember the place, but I do remember my brother and I sitting in a paddling pool aged 5 and 1 throwing water over the balcony. Our misfortune was it ...Read more

A memory of Ashton in 1960 by Steven Schrimshaw

Hi, I served my apprenticeship at L.E. Westwood (now Kingsbury Printers) at Kingsbury Green, behind the garage and car sales yard, 1949-1955. Prior to that, as a boy, I worked at United Dairies, helping the milkman (Mrs Eaton). For ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1952 by Tony Day

I was one year old when WW2 began - in 1938. Most of my visual memories stem from that time. I remember, without any facts to support them, the large white house that stood in the grounds of Waitrose Car Park and was in ...Read more

A memory of Barnet in 1949 by Roland Wood

I remember Martins swimmimg pool well, in Milton Road, Wokingham, just up from the Baptist Sunday school I went to. They had caves that the girls and boys changed in when they went with the school for swimming lessons,the cup ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham

My father built a caravan just after the war, we took it to Primrose Valley in 1946 and sited it in The Close after negotiating the rent with Mr Smart who was the manager, also the same family as the shop owner. ...Read more

A memory of Primrose Valley in 1940 by David Winn

I attended Radlett Prep between 1958 and 1965. It was located in a converted three floored Edwardian house on the corner of Hillside Avenue and Aldenham Grove, and has since been converted back to a private residence. Aldenham Grove was ...Read more

A memory of Radlett by Hamish Adam

My parents (Harold and Peggy Warden) bought Hillside (which was the miller's house, the mill fell down after the First World War) and moved my sister (Rosemary) and I from Surrey in April 1951, I was then 7 years old. Later that ...Read more

A memory of Standon in 1951 by Richard Warden

On August 13, 1961 I took up residence as a student nurse in Lindsay Smith House across from the hospital. It was the day the Berlin wall went up, and, as I recall, the day before the grouse shooting season began. I was 19 ...Read more

A memory of Virginia Water in 1961 by Patricia Hampton