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I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of the ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by John Stroud

I lived at 54 High Street, Kinghorn, Fife, Scoland, and went to school in Kinghorn and Burntisland. I remember the fish trains at night going to Burtisland and beyond and clanking up the hill as they came out of Kinghorn station. I also remember that it was double summer time.

A memory of Kinghorn in 1953 by Geoffrey Shenton

Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings in ...Read more

A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by James Irvine

I went to the Gordon Schools until I moved to England in 1972, they were the best days of my life. My uncle George Robertson owned the painting and decorating shop in Castle Street. I remember the picnics down by the Deveron in the summer. There ...Read more

A memory of Keith by Christine Bremner

It was only two years or so, from 1959-61, aged 6-8, but it still seems as if the happiest period of my childhood in Latimer was one long, endless, glorious summer. My dad was in the army, in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, ...Read more

A memory of Latimer in 1959 by John Sayer

In 1973 I became the general manager of Streatham Hill Theatre, managing the Mecca Social/Bingo club. It was the flagship club of the company and was every manager's dream to run it. Previous managers were Robin Pritchard, ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1973 by Peter Gauci

Growing up in Galley Common was the best part of my life. Dad was the manager of the bus depot, Bunty Motors I think it was called, at the bottom of Hickman Road, I lived at 66 Hickman Road. In the summer a lot of us ...Read more

A memory of Galley Common in 1959 by [Chris] Rick Green

My first main job on leaving school (Shaw House) was as a tea boy-dogsbody at H C James timber and builders merchants in Pound Street. For quite a while I cycled daily from Highclere Castle, approx 4 miles, it took me just over half an ...Read more

A memory of Newbury in 1956 by Percival Mills

Living in Kielder from a child to a man ... I lived in Kielder from 1974-1995. I loved the way you could keep your front door unlocked. I could hear the river passing by my bedroom window, this was how quite it was. I am sure ...Read more

A memory of Kielder by Mark Stanford

My grandparents lived at Fern Cottage. They moved there before the war and had two children, Dick and Jean. Dick was based at Wick and died in the war. Jean, my mum, married and had me and my sister. I have wonderful ...Read more

A memory of Cropwell Bishop in 1960 by Richard Booth