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I remember Greenford so well. I was born in Ealing in 1943, and moved to a prefab at Invicta Grove in Northolt in about 1950. Greenford was just a bus journey away from home, and a walk on a sunny day. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1960 by Leslie Poole

I was born in Greenford on 1st Oct 1943 (25 Greenway Gardens) We were bombed out & were evacuated to various places. It must have been after the war we moved to 7 Laughton Rd in Northolt. We didn't live there ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1946 by Pauline Daly

Really it was 1961-66. I worked as a Geologist for the United Steel Companies based in Rotherham. I visited Haile Moor and Beckermet Mines every two or three weeks for 5 years and came to love the area and its people ...Read more

A memory of Thornhill in 1961 by Geoff Potts

I was born in 1942 in Hathaway Rd at my Nan's. We moved to Milton road. When small I remember the house being damaged by the rocket that fell in the pit. Later playing on the bomb site in Cromwell Road. Went to Quarry Hill school, remember ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Carl Thomson

I was born on Church St, Greasbrough, gran and granddad lived close by in a row of cottages alongside the top club now a car park? My father worked in the local pits and we moved several times. At age 10 we moved back to ...Read more

A memory of Greasbrough in 1963 by Mike Plant

I lived on River View Park estate and by the age of 10 would cycle to the woods near Shorne village. There was an abandoned gravel workings and the area was a great place to play. We found a crane we could climb on and other ...Read more

A memory of Shorne in 1966 by Robert Campbell

I've fond memories of playing over at the gravel pit down Dark Lane in Blackfield and when my dad drove for Hall Aggregates in the 1970s.

A memory of Blackfield in 1982 by Jamie Bynam

My Grandma Iva Knox lived in Kibblesworth and was a seamstress. She used to make the uniforms for the jazz band among other things. She lived in a flat opposite Miss Cooper and above Mrs. Ward. Colin Wilkinson lived opposite ...Read more

A memory of Kibblesworth by Margaret Wilkinson

My grandfather was born in Cobham on Painshill. My memory is that it was on a slight hill with a slight bend, the Greenline bus used to stop near the old home, it was a cottage with a porch and had a very thick door with big ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1946 by Alan Rosher

l was born in Sandyford. l spent hours of my childhood in Brook Street, Brown Lees. My grandad, Harry Booth, worked down the Victoria Pit. l remember seeing the miners on their way home with faces blackened by coal dust. l remember ...Read more

A memory of Brown Lees in 1945 by Sylvia Davies