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Does anyone else remember the chain railings and posts, painted black and white around the green in front of these shops? I used to jump over them as a small child. They enclosed all the grass area.

A memory of Banstead in 1948 by Heather Lee

My grandfather, John Williams, lived in a victorian terraced house in Seymour Road with his parents and four brothers. The house was knocked down and replaced with the large block of flats you can see in the distance to the centre of the ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1940 by Julian Hight

I was born in Ilford in 1928, I now live in Australia, came here in 1948 so my memories are of that time. This picture is of where we used to shop every week. We lived in Dunedin Road.  Is the railway close by? I was in the Gaumont Super ...Read more

A memory of Ilford in 1940 by Flora Gully

My first memory is of sheep on the hillside leading up to my grandmother's house, and of a curtain hanging in front of the front door to protect it from the sun. As I was only about four years old at the time that is all for that ...Read more

A memory of Nant-y-moel in 1944 by Russell Evan Morgan Thomas

My grandmother's name was Amelia Gough and she lived in the second cottage on the right at the bottom of the green on the road to Mollington. Water was collected by bucket over the road from a tap in the vicarage wall.  She ...Read more

A memory of Warmington in 1940 by Michael Bennett

I was born on 6th feb 1944 at 199 Havant Road, Drayton and had a happy childhood there with my 5 sisters and parents.    My father was a painter and decorator and we lived in the house until the late '50s. I ...Read more

A memory of Drayton in 1944 by John Cowan

Walmersley Road Recreation ground was later renamed Clarence Park. This is the bandstand where on summer Sunday afternoons there would be a band concert and deck chairs (strictly for the older generation of course). The house in the distance was ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1940 by Janet Robinson

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

I was born at 1 Woodville Road, Cwm on the 15th November 1940. My Grandfarther was a Miner at the Marine Colliery. His fellow miners called him "Stonejar Morgan" because he took a stonejar full of water to work each day.He was a rescue worker during the "Six Bells" disaster.

A memory of Cwm in 1940 by David Kenny

My uncle used to live in Cranborne Avenue, Tolworth. We would visit and all troop across the fields - many with remains of war time crashed bombers etc. - to the delightful Bonesgate Pub. Happy days!

A memory of Chessington in 1948 by Joy Heyes