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I remember playing games in a field and at 6.45 in the evening someone would shout "Dick Barton is on" and everything was left where it was and everybody disappeared ...Read more

A memory of Draycott in 1948 by Maurice Jones

So many lovely memories of Coalville. I went to Bardon Hill School and we used to have to walk thru the quarry to get there (would never be allowed now). I remember our teachers, Miss Maloney, Mr Davy, the head and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Shepshed in 1978 by Tracie Whitmore

I remember the old Bussen and Parkins in Mildenhall High Street burning down. I was only young then but have lived in Mildenhall most of my life. It was the night it burned down I was with my parents, coming home from visting my ...Read more

A memory of Mildenhall in 1968 by Irene Stockley

Reading all these memories brings back mine. I lived in Waterlooville from 1945 (I was born in Jubilee Road Nursing Home) to 1966. We lived in Winifred Road, and I went to the Infants in Stakes Hill Road, then the Tin Hut, and ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1950 by Eileen Sainsbury

I was born in a house on the Eastern Avenue between Cantly gardens and Denham Drive in 1955. I moved to wales to go to uni in 1975. I worked as a Saturday girl in Barton’s the bakers in Gants Hill for a ridiculously low wage. ...Read more

A memory of Gants Hill by Gill Fitzgibbon

My mother used to take us children to both St Mary's Church and the Emmanuel Chapel. Being a Presbyterian from Northern Ireland, she believed she was closest to "Church of England" but found ...Read more

A memory of Morchard Bishop in 1960 by Ian Sterrett

I lived as a child in Down Road, Alveston (at Barton Cottage - now demolished) from 1959 to 1964 and have great memories of Thornbury. Having no car in those days the family would march down the hill into Thornbury to Mass on ...Read more

A memory of Thornbury in 1959 by Paul Martin

I visited this site and was intrigued to find pictures of Slinfold. One of them, the village hall, recalled the time when I belonged to a village group called The Stane Street Players run by Mrs Knibbs. We performed plays ...Read more

A memory of Slinfold in 1940 by William Cooper

Do you remember "Uncle Harry" he used to conduct the sing songs every saturday, during the week he was the local bill board sticker man. I can remember the song that we used to sing just before the films were ...Read more

A memory of Rickmansworth by tonybarton74

Saturday mornings was when my mother and I would join the family next door for our day out, down to the Tarpots Corner and a bus into Wescliff by the playing fields and then a dancing lesson at Mimi Greens School of Dancing ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1946 by Colin Mackenzie