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When we were children during WWII, my brothers Rob and Wilf and myself often visited Weston Green. At Weston Green there were two churches and two ponds called Marneys and Milburns. My ...Read more

A memory of Weston Green by Janet Moore

Every now and then I reminisce and take a trip down memory lane, of my childhood days growing up in Newarthill on Burnside Rd. I remember Tosh McGarry and I going to Father Gillan's jumble sale and buying an old fox fur ...Read more

A memory of Newarthill by Peter Laird

Christmas and birthdays were an under-whelming time of year in our household. However, Eastertime, coincided with the arrival of Stanley Thurston's fair (and a big dollop of rain). l lived opposite Manor Rd Park (or reck) from 1956-64, and along ...Read more

A memory of Luton

How many Christmases can you recall, Can you go right back to when you were small, Can you remember a blanket of Snow, That covered the ground, or don't you know. Can you remember when Teens were once Tots, And Hopscotch ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common by Andrew Cooper

I note that a couple of people have mentioned St Joseph's Convent School. Having attended that school from 1960 to 1966, I can confirm that the location was opposite Hoadley's and the building did indeed curve alongside ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill

I was born in Longton in 1933 at 151 High Street Post Office, Longton. All my childhood was spent there with my grandmother, Sarah Wright and my great aunt Matilda Ward (my grandmother's sister). Between them ...Read more

A memory of Longton by Barbara Johnson

I was born in 1951 at Parsons Green maternity home. I have many memories of my mum's family. My nan lived in Bayonne Road, Escourt Road, Heckfield Place, Bramber Road, Cassidy Road, Fairholme Road and latterly Charleville Road, then ...Read more

A memory of Fulham by jenny_blakemore

My Grandfather George Thomas Cooper 1880 to 1957 lived at Hebron a Detached Victorian House ( which is opposite what today is Coopers Place, named after my late Father Phillip George Cooper ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common by Andrew Cooper

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

Our family lived at Lightwater (1 High View Road) ; I passed 11 plus and was sent to Frimley And Camberley County Grammar School, starting in Sept. 1959. One of the first things we had to do was to get the uniform. We went ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by tobypaws2002