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This parade of shops is in my memory for ever - my family moved to Orchard Close - which starts just beside the post office on the right of the picture - in 1946. My brother was five and I was six months old. We ...Read more

A memory of Fetcham in 1950 by Christine Fox

Just after the war we visited Saham Hills quite regular from Hull. We stayed with an aunt and uncle of my father's by the name of Smith. He was called Charlie, his wife was Pat and they had a son who was called young ...Read more

A memory of Saham Hills in 1950 by Mal. Wilson

At this time (1950) I became a pupil at the above school. The playground was truly superb and it has very recently become a permanent green space for the use of the village. This ground has in it a ha-ha and we ...Read more

A memory of Burley in Wharfedale in 1950

I was born in Dartord where I lived in Stanham Road until I moved at the age of 9 years. Childhood friends I remember are Anthony Artist, Janet Cork, Michael Burville (not sure of spelling of surname). My next door neighbour was the ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1953 by Roger Dadd

I can remember that my family visited the Fox and Hounds frequently earlier than this date, but this was the first date I was legally allowed to partake of the amber fluid. I can remember the old artifacts, like biscuits ...Read more

A memory of Old Burghclere in 1958 by Terry Lawton

A child from Thanet taking annual last week of August holidays with an adored great aunt at Chiswell Green, travelling by train to Victoria Station, London, taking the Greenline to ...Read more

A memory of Frogmore in 1953 by Sandra Dudley

Brambletye school, well set between the beautiful Ashdown Forest and thriving town of East Grinstead on the Sussex/Surrey border was a paradise on Earth for any schoolboy with an aesthetically romantic (!) ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1959 by Giles Daubney

Pat - it's lovely to read about Hawthorn as my grandmother Mrs Berrett and my Uncle Peter and Aunt Hilda Evans also lived there. School holidays were spent picking blackberries at the old D.P camp and playing in the ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn in 1955 by Jennifer Mclarney

I was born at 87 Victoria Street in 1945. My father was a miner and worked all his life in Caerau colliery. My mother came from London with her brothers and sisters, they were evacuated to Caerau after their house in ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1953 by Colin Evans

Some months later, how long I cannot remember for the passing of time means little to a child, except that it always seemed so long for things to happen; but I found myself again seated in the back seat of another ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke