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My grandfather, Herbert Fletcher, was one of the signalmen at Hayfield for many years until he was compulsorily retired in the mid 1950's. All his children and grandchildren visited "the box" many times, taking him his ...Read more

A memory of Hayfield in 1955 by Bruce Fletcher

It was great sliding down the Tops on pieces of cardboard or a washer top, we went so fast hoping not to hit a car on the low road. When I used to go to school in the morning on the way to pick up my friend I would get a twig ...Read more

A memory of Thornhill in 1953 by Jean Bremner

We sometimes stayed in a caravan at Anderby Creek. Every day we took a picnic and stayed all day at Huttoft Bank. We bought flags and buckets and spades at the shop on the bad corner in Sandilands. My father used to blow up the inner ...Read more

A memory of Huttoft in 1953 by Rita Oakes

My grandfather, Frank Green, lived next door to Stevens shop in Ten Mile and was the local baker working from Hilgay High Street, with his family. He supplied most of the surrounding fens and West Derham etc.. with ...Read more

A memory of Ten Mile Bank in 1952 by John Dearsley

We moved to Woodside, Kirkandrews in l956. It was a boarding kennel and my father, Harold Brown, turned the l4 acres into a small farm. The school was two rooms, one heated by a stove and the other with a ...Read more

A memory of Kirkandrews-on-Eden in 1956 by Marcia Kell

My father's aunt and uncle lived in Newhaven. Ted Hoskins was his uncle's name, he was injured in the First World War and later worked at the lighthouse at the end of the breakwater before it was automated. His wife's name was May ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1955 by Dorothea Smedley

Despite the cement dust from West Thurrock, if the wind was in the wrong direction, Grays had everything available, from a baking tin to a new car, such a variety of shops. Good bus service, Eastern National, London ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1955 by Alan Knight

I was stationed at RAF Thornaby from March 1954 until early 1957 when I was promoted and posted to RAF North Luffenhan in Rutland in preparation for the Suez campaign, which never came to be. Sadly, that air base is ...Read more

A memory of Thornaby-on-Tees in 1954

Manchester the war.... then to Blackpool. And into Red Rose Cottage in 1950, Grandmare how she held us all together, what a lady Nellie Booth was her name... We started off with eight of us living in the cottage, and we ...Read more

A memory of Staining in 1950

Great Aunty Liza lived in an area called Buckland Wharf in a long, low, white bungalow where time stood still except the Grandfather Clock ticked in her "parlour" to tell us otherwise.  The room was very ...Read more

A memory of Buckland in 1956 by Christine Beddows