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What a fantastic website. So many fond memories. I moved to Croydon with my parents when I was two years old. Even in the mid nineteen fifties it would be considered a little too expensive to afford ones own camera, let ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Norman Allum

I lived with my family at Balla Wray between 1979 and 1981 we moved from the Red lion inn in Hawkshead cumbria and at that time Balla Wray was a Country house hotel where people would stay for a week each time. The cost was ...Read more

A memory of Balla Wray by Angela Thackeray

My parents and I moved to Swindon in 1961 from Edmonton, London to a brand new three bedroom house ( think). My father worked at Pressed Steel were they made car body panels for Austin, and Morris, and I used to cycle halfway to the ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by Graham Morland

I'm a Polzeath girl (grown woman now ). During the war I lived in Bryher, moved to Yoyo cottage then again to Tywardale. My nursery school was Tregear and primary school was Holiday House on the terrace. The playground was ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath

My brother and I were evacuated to Mansfield Woodhouse in 1940 from Southend. We came with our school, London Road Primary School, and some of our teachers including the wonderful Miss Whisker. We lived with various families - ...Read more

A memory of Mansfield Woodhouse in 1940

 My aunt was the Manager of the Imperial Hotel which once stood on the bank of a river (whose name escapes me), in the 1940s. I spent several holidays with her which were great experiences for a young boy from a ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1953 by Fionn Young

I was born in Gascoigne Road in 1946, right opposite the school, 2 doors from Molly's sweet shop. My sisters Brenda and Betty along with our parents Rose and Arthur Cox. I have wonderful and happy memories of our life in Gascoigne ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Barbara Kavanagh

I want to write mainly about the Court House, circa 1937, but some later memories have crept in. I was born in L'Espec Street. My grandmother lived in South Parade, opposite the Atkinson's house already mentioned ...Read more

A memory of Northallerton in 1930 by Kathy Vincent

My family moved to the post office in Mytchett Road in 1956 when I was six. I used to catch the bus at the bus stop opposite to go to Ash Vale Primary School. Yes, on my own, clutching my penny ha'penny bus fare and reciting ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett in 1956 by Faith Moulin

Does anybody remember Harry Smart and family who ran and owned the cafe at East Farleigh? It was a bikers' cafe and riders used to come from all over Kent to sit and talk bikes etc. His son Paul was a successful ...Read more

A memory of Maidstone in 1960 by Paul Cattano