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In the late 1950s and early 1960s I lived in both the Bookhams. Firstly in the house attached to Bookham Railway Station and later in a flat at Maddox Park House. I worked at CERL in ...Read more

A memory of Little Bookham Common in 1959 by David Hinds

My grandfather, George, was one of the Seaward Brothers Ltd, Builders, based in Limbury; the other brother was Frank. I used to visit the 'yard' with my dad, Keith who was the only son of George and his wife Lilian ...Read more

A memory of Houghton Regis in 1957 by Denise Speirs

A part of my boyhood was spent on a smallholding just outside of Wickford, the smallholding was called Littlemead. When I first went to Wickford my uncle Ted picked us up from the railway station in a pony and trap, the horse was ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1954 by Ronald Flynn

Every year until I was a teenager we spent our annual holiday at Clacton. We stayed at the same boarding house every year on St Osyths Road, it was owned by a lovely motherly character called Mrs Theobald, whose husband Percy was ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1958 by Rod Sharp

I wonder If you can help me please. We lived in Grygrymney, near Brithdir Tirfill. We moved to Yorkshire in 1963, against my dad's wishes. My dad was William Fuller, known as Billy Fuller. My mum's name was Vera ...Read more

A memory of Newchurch in 1955 by Glenys Berry

I was born 1945 at Mason Green Farm and attended the little school from 1950 until 1954 when my father moved on to other employment away from the area to Furness in north Lancs. My sister Barbara who is 4 years younger than me only ...Read more

A memory of Bashall Eaves in 1950 by George Appleton

Does anybody have any information on Mr. & Mrs. F. E. Rogers who lived at the "Culver House" in Middlewich? I believe (but could be mistaken) they lived there during the 1930s through the 1960s. I have an old book ...Read more

A memory of Middlewich in 1950 by Diane Ethridge

There was Mr Jim Goynes, Mr Nicholson and his wife, Mr Hamer, Mr Oxley (the boys knew him as "Flump" although I never knew why). There was Mollie Manion (known as Matron), Mrs Nicholson was her assistant and ...Read more

A memory of Thelwall in 1953

I was on a week's holiday with other pupils from Ardwick Secondary Technical School in Manchester, five girls shared what was known as the film star bedroom, a most beautiful room with oil paintings on the walls. I was 15 at ...Read more

A memory of Moreton Paddox in 1954 by Barbara Lea

During the 1950s my brother Brian and I (Peter) were what can only be described as whisked to paradise in Wiswell. We left the slums of Hulme on a vacation that has stayed with us forever, it was like taking part in our ...Read more

A memory of Wiswell in 1956 by Peter Clarke