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I spent my childhood in Lower Broadheath. I used to live in Church Lane.  It was nice living there because there were so many other children.  We would be in and out of each others' houses, and ...Read more

A memory of Lower Broadheath

I was born in Salsburgh. I moved to England 38 years ago. It has changed a lot since I left with new houses etc. I pass through a few times a year and often wonder how many people I knew still live in the village. It was ...Read more

A memory of Salsburgh by Elizabeth Phillips

I remember the day my mother left me there. It was raining, outside and in my heart The school had church-like double doors and as we went in it felt like the end of the world to me. I was ...Read more

A memory of Hampstead in 1948 by Pat Weedon

I was born on the 22nd of August 1968 in Cheese Cottage, 1 Steel Lane, Catcott, and spent the first 18 years of my life in the same house, in the same room, with my brother, and 3 sisters.

A memory of Catcott in 1968 by Lorna Rossiter

This house is where my great grandma lived as a child. It was demolished not long after this photo was taken.

A memory of Messingham

When I was a child, we moved to Orwell Grange, a large house on an estate of 7 acres. The village of Orwell stands on the A603 just 7 miles from Cambridge, where my mother taught shorthand and typing. Our home was also run as a ...Read more

A memory of Orwell in 1962 by Jeannette Howard

I had two great-aunts who lived in the a house called the Yew Trees, the big house opposite the pub. My two aunts were Martha and Harriet (aka Cissy) Wilkinson. I remember going to see them in the 1950s with my mum. The ...Read more

A memory of Lower Peover in 1952 by Barbara Sanderson

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 20th ...Read more

A memory of Alciston by William Lovell

My father was in the USAF, stationed at West Drayton from 1956-1959. In 1956 we rented a large, beautiful home named Billsfield in Addlestone. We also had friends in the village who owned a bicycle shop - ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1956 by Carol Tims

My maternal grandparents owned Daneswood, which you reached by taking the Mells road out of Great Elm, then turning left at a bungalow set right on the edge of the Mells river valley. After passing the bungalow, Daneswood was the first of ...Read more

A memory of Great Elm in 1959 by Richard Tomlinson