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My father's aunt and uncle lived in Newhaven. Ted Hoskins was his uncle's name, he was injured in the First World War and later worked at the lighthouse at the end of the breakwater before it was automated. His wife's name was May ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1955 by Dorothea Smedley

Lived at 4 Walmer Road, Waterloo and 21 Cambridge Road Waterloo in the 1950's. Both houses were divided into flats. I have fond memories of the Beach, Potters Bar Park, the Five Lamps, South Road and St John's Road. Would ...Read more

A memory of Waterloo in 1952 by Sheila Shanley

I spent several summer school holidays in Didcot with my mate and grandad, he lived in Newlands Avenue with my Uncle Bert. Grandad ran the bar in the army camp. He used to send me round to wake up the men first thing. The man in charge was a ...Read more

A memory of Steventon in 1955 by Thomas Johnson

I have so many fond memories of my grandmother's house.  The house is on the left of the picture and has two bay windows and is painted white. As a child I would play with the turkeys which were kept in the stables at ...Read more

A memory of Royal Wootton Bassett in 1956 by Jenny Sexton

My father was the village policeman until 1958 and we lived in the Police House which doubled as a Police Station (there was a counter for public use at the front of the house). We left for Corby in 1958 when I was 6. My memories are ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Halse in 1957 by Alan Hamilton

The building in the middle of this photo was the village shop. It was owned by my grandmother, Hilda Green. It seemed to me as a child to sell just about everything I could ever have needed in my life. Granny was also ...Read more

A memory of Hurstbourne Tarrant in 1955 by David Green

I lived in Deepcut from 1951 to 1959 in Ceylon Terrace, Blackdown Camp as a child in the army married quarters  My father had just been posted back to the UK after serving in Germany. There were about eight blocks ...Read more

A memory of Deepcut in 1950 by Sheila Walker

Opposite the post office at the end of the parade of shops was a dry cleaners owned by what I thought was a rather posh lady who would call me Poppet. My mother cleaned house for them and sometimes I would be taken ...Read more

A memory of West Drayton in 1953 by Barry Hawgood

I travelled with Mr Moor, the miller, in this Ford van as he went from house to house selling grain food for chickens etc.  I also paid a weekly visit to the mill which charged our accumulator acid battery that ...Read more

A memory of Pontllanfraith in 1950 by Granville Johnson

When I was about nine I spent a year in Harefield Hospital. When I arrived I was put into isolation for two weeks. The treatment included a penicillin injection twice a day. After isolation I was moved into a double room, and then ...Read more

A memory of Harefield in 1955 by Barry Hawgood