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Whilst visiting an elderly uncle in Kent about five years ago, he chanced to show me some old family photographs. Having a very accute memory I noticed a photograph of a man who I called uncle Bill, at his farm ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Rochford in 1944 by Keith Trotman

Yes, you are well remembered in Robertsbridge; you lived the first time at 10 Bishops Lane, and your then neighbour was Mr and Mrs R Davis. They had three sons and one daughter; Richard, Maxine, Stephen, and ...Read more

A memory of Robertsbridge in 1955 by Leonard Woodgate

I was born at no 2 Shop Row near the Philadelphia cricket club, and my grandad used to take me to watch the cricket. Could anyone tell me where I could find old photographs of Shop Row? Thank you, H.Robson

A memory of Houghton-Le-Spring in 1930 by Henry Robson

One of Northampton’s now-lost buildings is seen on the right of this photograph, the old Notre Dame High School which was built in 1871 as a school and convent run by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. A former teacher at the ...Read more

A memory of Northampton by Julia Skinner

I was born in Church Cottage in April 1943. My parents were Mabel and Reg Gale. My grandparents Emma and Thomas lived in the same house. My grandfather went to live with my Uncle George and Auntie Doll in Tout after my ...Read more

A memory of Compton Valence in 1943 by Patricia Draper

I spent three idyllic years living at Marbury from 1949 to 1952, when my family emigrated to Australia.The hall was still there then and how well I remember the rhodedandrens lining the drive to the road. One memory I will never forget is the ...Read more

A memory of Marbury by Anne Chandler Nee Hughes

I started in the Infant School in 1949, the year my family came to Corby - I was 6 years old. I can remember the huts with the old coke stoves. Each classroom had a partition and there was a stage in the last one where we used to have ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1949 by Moira Jones

I lived at 2 Church Street, Cheadle, opposite the cemetary. My maiden name was Clarke; we lived there until 1948 and then moved to Oak Road. I went to Broadway School from 1946 to 1950 and am looking to see if anyone has ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle by Pat Saunders

I am Rosemary Harris (now Davies) and I was born in Livingstone Road in 1943 and was christened at St Stephen’s Church. I attended Hounslow Town Infants and Juniors and then Bulstrode Girls School from 1955-1960, ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Rosemary Davies

I lived at 112 Woodside View. Happy memories of the village school. Remember blackberry picking in Blackberry woods, also Plum Lane. I also remember walking past somewhere at night when we had been to the cinema and being scared of bats!

A memory of Honington in 1963