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My family lived at 3 Downsway just off Southlands Avenue.  I had two older brothers when we arrived and by 1966 I had two more and a sister. My older brothers and I attended Warren Road Primary and I ...Read more

A memory of Orpington in 1965 by Peter Browning

My name is Agnes Mawhinney, my fondness memory is going to the old primary school on Symington Road North with my brother Arthur. The class rooms were big with big high ceilings, the toilets were outside ...Read more

A memory of Symington

As a pupil up to 1948 I do believe the head was B L Shotton (Bandy Legged), teachers Kerridge, Mrs Treacher don't remember any more.  I remember the air-raid shelters in the yard, and the school toilets which due to ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1946 by John Scott

I think about 1955, when I was living in St Pauls Cray on the main road by Hearns Rise, there was a lady who always wore a brown coat and used to spend most of the day walking up and down in front of ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1955 by Derek Stocker

My little bruvver Pete got hold of a book call 3 Cheers to North Heath - what a great little book! University Place in the 1850's; the Education Act; all the different teachers and so on. Such a lot of ...Read more

A memory of Northumberland Heath in 1960 by John Wilson

In the summer of 1952 I learnt that my parents had decided to move from our home in the Midlands to the West Country as my father wished to return to where his relatives lived. It came as no surprise therefore, when one day they ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth in 1952

As a regular church goer to St.Matthews Church in the late fifties and early sixties,it holds many memories of church baazars and fetes that were held . I still have in my possession church books awarded to me for ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1959 by Brenda Lukes

My father was the minister of the Baptist Church in Queen Street from 1962 until 1970. The little church was too small to hold his welcome services so these were held in the Congregational Church, with tea in the hall. He often ...Read more

A memory of Godalming in 1962 by Canon David Frost

The hairdressers was on the same road as the pub, it was a local girl who ran it. There was a butchers and some more shops and you could get to the big hilly across the road. As kids we where told not to go ...Read more

A memory of Bradley

My Grandad Alfie Brown built a lot of the houses along the Havant Road. Lower Farlington Road, First Avenue, we lived at 396 Havant Road and I have happy memories of those days in the fifties when we went to Solent Road School , I ...Read more

A memory of Farlington in 1920 by Pauline Robson