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I live down in New Zealand now but I have seen all the comments etc about old grays as I said all the com I have lived in all those people even down the Exmouth swimming pool and mesons lane I lived there when they shot ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1944 by Ivan Lane

My grandparents lived at The Cottage in South View, Uppingham for 40 years from 1908 where he was a well known Director of Music at the public school. From a very early age during the second world war I made my first visit. ...Read more

A memory of Uppingham in 1943 by Barry Sterndale Bennett

It looks to me, that this view is of Hayters shop on the corner of Church road and The Park. We lads would go in to buy sweets and stuff. The Barn Hall is opposite.

A memory of Great Bookham in 1940 by Norman Watson

HELLO AGAIN, CAN YOU REMEMBER THE PRISONERS OF WAR USED TO GET DROPPED OFF AT THE TOP OF THE STREET BY ARMY WAGON AND THEN PICKED BY TRACTOR AND TAKEN UP TO HANKEYS FARM UP THE NORE LANE TO WORK ON THE FARM. PLEASE ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1947 by David Leckenby

Happy memories of Blackburn attended St Johns School 1930s lived in Garnett Street no longer there I was married at St Johns Church 1952 and lived on Queens Rd till 1975 when we moved to Sale Cheshire. My Father was a ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn in 1946 by Margaret Hindle Nee Noblett

I lived at 11, wickham highams park until I got married in 1968. Went to Selwyn infants which was mixed then went next door to the junior girls school as the boys school was the otherside of the infants. At age 11 went to Sidney ...Read more

A memory of Highams Park in 1947 by Christine Bouchard

My sister Margaret and I would walk from our "Yarford Cottage "through the US army camp at Tetton Park on our way to school which was then next to the church. Charlie Barrett was the game keeper, Captain and Mrs Pawson ...Read more

A memory of Kingston St Mary in 1943 by David Selley

My grandparents lived in a cottage fronting the River Humber where the Humber Bridge is now. My grandfather worked in the whitening mill near what was then called LITTLE SWITZERLAND. It is now, I believe, a country park. Their name ...Read more

A memory of Hessle in 1940 by John Holt

I grew up in Normanton and have many happy memories .... I went to the Church of England Primary school ... walked over the farm fields with my Dad under the old railway line and on to Loscoe Lane to the Bluebell wood .... all gone now ...Read more

A memory of Normanton in 1947 by Pauline Wood Degnan

From 1947 to 1950 my father, V. U. Hinds, was the Station Master at Northfleet Railway Station. We lived in Berwick House, a Victorian "pile" next to the station which had two large mulberry trees in the ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1940 by David Hinds