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I lived at Bridge cottage from 1955 to 1964. Just across the road from the Blacksmiths Arms with the Plough Inn at our rear, and the Nags Head in the middle of the village there was no shortage of pubs for the adults. Two Dales ...Read more

A memory of Two Dales in 1960 by Margaret Sockett Nee'wilson

The building still looks there same, there was a red postbox on the lower right hand corner of the picture turning into Blundel Lane. I lived on the Stoke Road. Just past the pub was a shop called FourWays -where we ...Read more

A memory of Stoke D'Abernon in 1965 by Marina Munro

Does anyone remember the "I hate the dogs" man? He was the opposite of Camberley Kate. He loathed canines of all sorts, and shouted "I hate the dogs" in the street. If he met a dog, he would get down on his hands and ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1963 by Christopher O'd

I remember the fields and Beckbridge prefabs. I and my sister attended the infants school , set back from Castleford road sadly no more except the walls remain .Swam in the old Baths where asda, s store now stands.I ...Read more

A memory of Normanton in 1961

As a young child I was educated at Cockers Hill Primary School Peaslake. Headmistress Miss Moody with Assistant Head Miss Pearce. I would catch the bus from Gomshall to Peaslake sometimes being collected in the ...Read more

A memory of Peaslake in 1963 by Susan Hibbert

My late grandma and auntie Gladys lived in The Rest, Church Lane. I visited them every year with my parents and sister. Bulphan holds very special memories for me. I remember Mr Steele from Stanley Road and my grandma had a ...Read more

A memory of Bulphan in 1968 by Mary Walden

Although I only lived in Woodford for a couple of years at most I was happy there. We lived at 17 High St, which I suppose might be called a cottage these days. It was a 2 up 2 down place with a strange sort of tiny ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Halse in 1960 by Marj Peel

As a young lad growing up in the village was a joy with the forest & common for a playground. We knew nearly everybody that lived there. You talk about Morgans the newsagent and Myers the Butchers; I ...Read more

A memory of Chigwell Row in 1960 by George Surridge

My grandparents, William and Jane Herdman, lived in the village for many years, as did my great uncles and aunts. My mother was a pupil at the local school in the village. We went there in all sorts of weather for years. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Garrigill in 1960 by Peter Moffat

I used to visit my pal Danny Parker during the school holidays,his family moved to thornley from rossmere way .Hartlepool when we were in Rossmere junior school I recall the little house 8 Galt street with back yard and low ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1960 by Peter Forsyth