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Hello everyone-- i am hoping someone out there can help me trace a very dear friend from Grangetown -- let me add my memory -- i live in South Wales but in the early 1960 i lived with my aunt in Eston but i became very ...Read more

A memory of Grangetown by eugenebowen977

My name is Jacqueline Billingsley. I was sent here in the 1950's from hospital due to kidney problems. I remember the Matron who would take her small dog for walks every morning in the woods. Being very fond of dogs even at a ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by jacbill15

I was born in woodgate street nine Ellms lane Battersea in November 1936, all the people older than me who were around at that time must have passed away. In our house lived my grandparents, my mum and dad, brother jock, sister ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by squiresdp

I was 19 when the fire happened and engaged to be marred my wife to be Joan and I would spend hours in the store mostly looking at the furniture we could not afford ( but one could dream) we lived at Barkingside and could see the ...Read more

A memory of Ilford by geoffreycarter01

I also have vivid memories of tolworth as I lived over the shops, waters the green grocers near the wimpy bar As a very young person I remember going to the nursery on the corner of fairmead. I remember playing in the fields ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by Teresa Hawken

Seasalter - A place name from the past for 2 reasons. No.1 - in the 1960s my paternal grandmother and grandfather had retired from Tooting, Sarf London to Bapchild, Sittingbourne and had acquired a beach hut close by the ...Read more

A memory of Seasalter by mothpoet

My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My father ...Read more

A memory of Crantock by Dianne Christopher

Most of my mother's family lived in Old Battersea, from cousins to auntie and uncle, to nan and grandad. There were cousins in a 4 poster bed, with their nan and mum. There were my auntie and uncle sleeping in the same room as their 2 ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1953

I think it was 1950, when my late wife and I were courting and trying to find a home we could afford. We chanced to hear of the condemned Village School and the adjoing Hall, which the Church Commissioners wanted to sell for ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield in 1950 by Clement Dennis

I was born in Ireby in 1955. I had two sisters and a brother, Linda Val and Paul. My mum was born in Ireby and her dad John Coates (my grandad) lived around the corner in the cottages in the middle of Ireby. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Ireby in 1966 by Sylvia Hutton Nee Newby