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We are in year 1955 and I'm sure you older ones from around here will remember what Duffers were, this was a task game where all the gang joined in. We had different modes which would take our fancy, pole vaulting was where we would cut a ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1955 by Jimmy Burrows

Queen Elizabeth I granted housewives the right to dry their washing on Bristol's Brandon Hill. Bristol's most prominent land mark, the Cabot Tower, was 100 years old in 1998. But the official opening was marked by a ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

As I told you, in Millfield there was only one shop, 'Jacksons', and two houses, Sewells and Gribbles, both in Victoria Terace where they turned their front parlour into shops. Sewells was run by Anne Veitche's mother, a nice lady, ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

In the years of rationing, my mum used to remove the sweet coupons from her ration book so that we didn't spend all our pocket money on sweets. About halfway down Castle Hill, on the left, was ...Read more

A memory of Axminster in 1948 by Marjorie Alcock

Never had any direct connection with Alciston but have known it since my teens in the early 1960s and have visited many times over the years. What caught my interest is that the village has stayed relatively unchanged in the ...Read more

A memory of Alciston by William Lovell

I too remember our bus service in and around Tarpots, as I recall one that ran out of the bus station on the left going in to Hadleigh just after the turn off to Dawes Heath and Rayleigh, was it called the Benfleet bus company,they ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1950 by Colin Mackenzie

We moved from Balham to Burgess Hill in 1956. My parents had bought 267 Junction Road and then proceeded to renovate the house as it was in a shocking condition. Both my parents worked in London so I walked to my grandparents' ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1959 by Fran White

I was born at 4 Glenhaven Avenue in November of 1945 to Matthew Murray and Elizabeth (Beth) Murray, My sister Jill having been born in Radlet in 1944. I remember that the walls were brown in the house so I gave it the ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1947 by Jackie Murray Richardson

Well, I was born in Lingey Gardens (at my grandparents' house, John and Ethel Holdsworth) in 1948, but I best remember Wardley when I was about 8 years. I remember the NCB coal waggon tipping coal in the road outside the ...Read more

A memory of Wardley in 1956 by Michael Oakes

I lived in Spindle Cottage (now, I see, simply 'Spindles') with my mother from mid-1940 till the end of the Second World War, from the age of five till ten; my father, who was a codes and ciphers officer in ...Read more

A memory of Eversley in 1940 by Martin Dilly