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Around 1957 I was walking around High Street, enjoying a meander from my route home to Bradbury Lines when I saw the wife of an officer from the Army Camp, Lt Richard Vincent, in great distress with some policemen ...Read more

A memory of Hereford in 1957 by Dylan Rivis

Around 1954 my Mother took me to Watford shopping and the market.  We lived at the time in South Oxhey, we would catch the train from Carpenders Park Station and get off at Watford High St station which was the lower part of the high ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1954 by Babs Earley

My first introduction to Slaidburn was in the middle of the very cold and snowy winter of 1949-50. I had just driven down from Inverness to this charming Lancashire village with my Dad. It had been a long, cold drive in a ...Read more

A memory of Slaidburn in 1950 by Denman Lalonde

I was born 1953 and lived in No 94 Main Street until 1966, which is one of the small cottages on the right of the photo.  The big house at the bottom of the road was known as "General Jack's", he being a veteran of the Boar and ...Read more

A memory of Kibworth Harcourt in 1953 by Graham Marsden

Year 1955 because it's central to the time we lived just a few doors down in a new bungalow (Khandala), from the Thorpe's café (it was west towards the roundabout, north side of the road) and one of my cherished ...Read more

A memory of Southbourne in 1955 by Liz Forrest O Driscoll

I went to school in Bexleyheath between 1950 and 1954. I believe the school was in Pelham Road but I can't be sure. Maybe there was a separate infants school in North Street? I remember the excitement of the Coronation ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by John Howard Norfolk

As a native of St Blazey, I would like to write about the businesses there at the time. The first shop on the church side " The International Stores", a fine shop managed by Mr Vincent, who also owned the newsagents in Station ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1951 by Melville Grigg

One of my earliest memories was from in a push chair. The zoo was parading through the street, I don't know which street though, and this elephant steps up onto the pavement and forces my mother back into the hedge. I have a surreal memory of that huge leg being very close to me.

A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1959 by Donald Macdonald

I remember in the 1950s when Cherry Hinton had the best village football team in Cambridgeshire, and around the 1950s when Cherry Hinton was a village, sadly no more. Farms up the High Street. Smiths bakers ...Read more

A memory of Cherry Hinton in 1956 by Clarke Ron

On the left is the Swan pub, on the right Barbara's Pantry. My grandmother Hilda Carter used to come up to Ruislip, to Bishop Winnington's on Saturdays from East Dean (near Eastbourne) to teach elocution to my sister and me and ...Read more

A memory of Ruislip in 1950 by Anna Wynne