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Doesn't anyone there remember the Park Lane Ballroom, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights (if you could afford it!. I often wonder what happened to some of the lovely girls that went there and taught me to jive, where are you Noreen, ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by frank.aylard

I remember as a little girl running to the Sweet and Tobacconist shop on the corner of Westfield Road, where we lived, for 5 Woodbines for my mum.  The shop was owned by Tom Lewis.  Obviously it wasn't a problem selling ...Read more

A memory of Orrell in 1950 by Carol Hughes

We moved to Berkhamsted around 1968 when I was 5 years old. I went to Westfield school. After that I went to Thomas Bourne School, in the first year we had to do a couple of days a week at North Church school due to too ...Read more

A memory of Berkhamsted by Simon Wright

We moved to Yeadon in 1961 when I was 7, my dad worked for Timothy Whites Chemists who had their head office in Leeds. We moved into a new house 2 Whackhouse Close and I went to Westfield Primary which was just across the road. I loved that school, ...Read more

A memory of Yeadon by anne_54

My father, Douglas Aubrey Dixon, also known as 'Reginald' lived with his father, Temple Dixon, at 'Westholme' Westfield Lane - No.81. My paternal grandfather bought the house for £385 in June, 1935. Temple Dixon was a ...Read more

A memory of Kippax in 1940 by Geoffrey Dixon Hamilton

My mother Edna Long was born in Zeals in 1936 the youngest of seven born at westfield house which is no longer there and brought up in chapel lane she attended the village school and worked at the dairy in bourton she was married to my father ...Read more

A memory of Zeals in 1930 by Della Oliver

I have fond memories of Wrose, Living in the only bungalow in Westfield Grove I can still hear the horse and cart crawling slowly up the cobblestone lane as the milkman Mr Mortimer dropped off his milk and orange ...Read more

A memory of Wrose in 1955 by Stuart Bedford

Must have been in the early 1970s when I allowed myself to be roped in as an instructor, along with Charles Sheldrick, of Charlwoods Road, and three others; to my shame, I can't properly remember ...Read more

A memory of East Grinstead by Terence O'gorman

I remember going to Grandma's on Saturdays - we would walk from her house along Westfield Lane down Westgate on to the Buttermarket. I would love the hand made sweet stall and take ages spending my pennies, perhaps the fruit ...Read more

A memory of Mansfield in 1958 by Jennifer Barker

I was born in Richmond the year 1945 attending the Convent from 1950 till 1959. The street I grew up on was named Westfields and it looked down over the fields right onto the school. My brother has added some of his memories below Bill Mather. My name is Anne Mather-Alsip

A memory of Richmond in 1950 by Anne Alsip