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I spent almost every day here during the school summer holidays. My greatest achievements were jumping off of the top board and learning to dive in from the springboard. In the first year at school we had a bus take us ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1958 by Linda Pattinson

I'm not exactly sure what year I was an in-patient at Orpington Hospital, so 1957 or 1958 seems most likely. I was at Vine Road, Primary School, in the Juniors probably. I had to have an ...Read more

A memory of Orpington in 1957

Johnson's Bakery was where you could sit on the pavement in the winter because the ovens where right next to the pavement in the cellar.

A memory of Fairfield in 1950 by Richard Green

I began my life's journey at Ty Gwyn farm in 1951 just before my 2nd birthday. I even remember climbing.the stairs at 1year 10 months. I would walk down Penywern Road to the Wern school. I remember standing on a chair in the ...Read more

A memory of Ystalyfera in 1954 by Joyce .Lloyd

I was baptised in this church and belonged to the Youth Club. The Vicar at that time, was Rev. Welch, and 'Doc' ran the Youth Club. After church on Sundays we all used to go into the pub for a shandy, including the ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1956 by Deanna Sycamore

I have a lot of memories, some good some not so good. I arrived in Torrington employed as a fireman by British Rail, this was a year or two before the demise of steam and indeed the Torrington /Barnstable branch line. I ...Read more

A memory of Taddiport in 1959 by Colin Walsh

My memories of St Peter’s school South Weald - starting in 1956(?) I started, in what I seem to remember as the ‘pre-fab’ classroom in the lower playground with, I believe, Mrs Fox as my first teacher. We had slates and chalks ...Read more

A memory of South Weald in 1956 by Douglas Mcneil

I used to live in the shop on the bridge in Cononley, my parents were the owners. What happy times they were, so carefree. The highlight of the year was the Gala. I once went as a golliwog (blonde frizzy hair). I borrowed the black ...Read more

A memory of Cononley in 1957 by Jennifer Woolley

What a wonderful summer 1953 was, so sunny that I was burned and confined to a darkened room in our hostess, Miss Montador's, terraced house somewhere up the back of the town but easy walking distance to the harbour. ...Read more

A memory of Pittenweem in 1953 by Kenneth Conway

I loved crossing the white bridge which led to Mottingham horse stables, as I was horse mad! Sometimes when quite young (7 or 8) a steam train would go underneath the bridge and I loved the smell of the steam and the fog!

A memory of Eltham in 1958