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I grew up in Grieve Street and my gran lived in Simon Crescent (no 28). I remember as a kid going to visit her and playing in the swing park opposite her house. There was a hill nearby which was called 'Hill 60' if my ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1960 by Gordon Christie

This the exact spot where I learned to swim, it was muddy, cold, and wonderful, it was also where I learned to use a canoe with the school, we actually had to turn it over...Yuk... My Mum would send us to ...Read more

A memory of St Martins in 1960 by Thelma Ellis

Gold Hill common has an upper flat grassy area and then a sloping area, which leads down into the town, which is covered with scrub, not the town of course. This photo is right on the edge of the upper part. In 1963, when I was a ...Read more

A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1963 by Donald Macdonald

This parade of shops always seemed very modern to me - flat glass fronts instead of the curved windows with recessed doors, and flats above the shops. It was the Traps Hill end of the town and so was the first place we reached when we ...Read more

A memory of Loughton in 1960 by Susan Capes

I was born in 1959 and we moved from Rossly Hill to Canfield Gardens in 1960. I am now 50 and still live and work very close to Canfield Gardens. I went for a coffee with a friend yesterday to the cafe at the top of ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage in 1965 by Sara Bell

My gran came from Leasingthorne, moving to Cambridge in the late 1920s. She had a sister named Mary who lived in an end of terrace house near a corrugated tin 'social club', chickens were kept opposite. l can remember an Uncle ...Read more

A memory of Leasingthorne in 1960 by Nick Richardson

Shovelled off to Boarding School, aged 7 (just), small boy, shorts, huge trunk, sandwiches and standing on the platform in London shivering and not just from the cold. School train huffing and puffing heading for ...Read more

A memory of Tawstock in 1960 by James Burgess

My house backed onto Wyndham Hill and I spent my childhood playing over there. My cousin and I loved to watch the steam trains passing by and sometimes (if our parents weren't nearby) would run onto the bridge at Pen Mill ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1966 by Kim Cavanagh

My name then was Peter Pronger my two brothers used to work at Nightingale Farm it had a lot of pigs in those days, I remember Mr Podmore he was attacked by a Boar and was badly injured .Also Mr Young ( Bill Young ) My brothers ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1962 by Peter S Tevens

Reading one of the messages on the site about David Greig's shop in Sidcup high street, brought back memories of my time with that company. I did relief work some of the time in the early 60's and one shop I worked in was the one in ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1961 by Derek Stocker