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I started at St. Peters School South Weald in the Infants class with Miss Clough in 1950. She was a lovely lady. My first few months were very worrying as I was a shy only child and I cried a lot as ...Read more

A memory of South Weald in 1950 by Helen Illsley

I was 9 and My mother Vi worked part time at the Hotel doing afternoon teas. Phil and Betty Roddis managed the Hotel. They had just had a young daughter, Phillipa. I spent many a day within the hotel. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Seascale in 1957 by Paul Brookes

I lived at 64 Brook Road have wonderful memories of the youth club, Skipper Williams was in charge. I had an apprentership with RJ Whitakers as a carpenter joiner left the UK in 1969 now live in Western Australia

A memory of Merstham in 1954 by Alan Worsfold

I was born in Spencers Wood in 1944 , at South Lodge , Stanbury Park , opposite Mr Shermans butchers shop, I went to school at Lambs Lane and later at Ryeish Green , I remember going to the Co Op shop for sweets with a ration book, I ...Read more

A memory of Spencers Wood in 1950 by Jennifer Alabaster

My family lived in Emes Road quite near to the Heath and I went to Brook Street school. Like all the other people who have shared their memories I also remember that time with great fondness. All the ...Read more

A memory of Northumberland Heath in 1957 by Vivien Walsh

I was put into care at Violet Ayres Lodge in 1958 with my two brothers, John and Peter. When we first went there the houseparents were Tom and Iona Leslie. Some of the names I remember were George Howe, Michael Hill, Johnny ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1958 by Jim Saunders

Ah, the memories. I am the Miss Brooks mentioned and I remember well Christopher Thurston, music teacher and Willoughby Johns with whom I went to a "do" at Cambridge. Also, Elizabeth, Major Meager's secretary who married ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1956 by Doreen A. Smith

I'm researching Bela Lugosi's 1951 British tour of Dracula. I would like to hear from anyone who attended the Sunday Pictorial Film Garden Party at Moreden Hall Park on Saturday June 16 1951 and saw or spoke to Bela ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1951 by Andi Brooks

My parents, Frank & Joan Roche, moved here from Marsh Baldon with the four of us children in 1950. We lived in the left hand half of what was then called Glebe House, (a writer lived in the other half); the ...Read more

A memory of Shipton under Wychwood in 1950 by Adrienne Roche

In 1951 together with my parents & brothers we camped at a little campsite next to an old house called Strand Castle next to the strand brook. The site was run by a Mr Wallace who lived at Strand Castle..he had old army tents set up ...Read more

A memory of Cookham in 1951 by Tony Dighton