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When my mother first bought the 'Pink' cottage, at the edge of the fen, it was very dilapidated, the barn in the back was almost gone, we had no electricity, no running water, the ceilings were too low, the stairs were falling down. ...Read more

A memory of Reach in 1959 by Jeannette Howard

I was born in Flete House and adopted very soon after. I have a sort of memory of a large wood panelled room filled with cots, there are windows along one side with the sun streaming through. I wonder if that was the nursery ...Read more

A memory of Pamflete Ho in 1952 by Mary Impey

I was born in 1946 at 66 Marlborough Road in the front parlour of my gran's house. We lived at that time at 7 Harrietta Street, Higher Broughton, Salford 8 which was then know as Hightown. The chip shop on ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1951 by Jean Allcock

I was a boy at Burrow Hill School. I remember the head master's name was Mr Tangy, my house was Orchard, I was there for about a year. Some of the boys I remember were, Macmanus, King, Clark and one boy who always wore a ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1950 by Cecil Osman

Does anyone have any memories about the 1953 floods? My aunt Phyliss Papworth and her daughters Suzanne, Jennifer and Patricia who lived in South Beach Road all drowned, but her other daughter Janet was at a birthday party at a ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1953 by Marlene Hyland

My family lived on the Market Square for many years from 1946. I have many happy memories of Higham and looking at the photos on this site bring them flooding back. My sister, brother and I started at the local ...Read more

A memory of Higham Ferrers in 1950 by Susan Barnes

I had a boy in my class at school who lived in this house. It always seemed very mysterious to me. Leslie Hoy, I wonder where you are now. We also used to swim regularly at the New Bridge a couple of hundred yards up from Eyot House. I ...Read more

A memory of Weybridge in 1957 by Stella Phillips Goree

My sister Pat and I attended Welton School along with pupils from Brough and Brantingham after the 1950s. I am one of the Medforth twins from Brantingham (Roslyn). I remember we had a canteen at the school which served up ...Read more

A memory of Welton in 1950 by Jean Carr

My name was at that time, Annette Mothersole. I am the youngest daughter of Doris and Bert Mothersole. My two sisters are Yvonne Rushbrooke and Vivienne York. My dad was a farmer we lived on Poppyloy Farm. and went to school at Southery and ...Read more

A memory of Southery in 1950 by Annette Ratzlaff

My grandparents moved to Rainham in the 1930s and were there during the Second World War. After the war my mother married at St Helen's and St Gile's and when I was born, in 1952, my earliest and fondest memories are ...Read more

A memory of Rainham in 1958 by Jane Briggs