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Sometime during the autumn of 1945 our neighbour, who lived in The Oval, Banstead, comforted a Canadian woman she saw crying in High Street. That woman had flown over to visit her airman husband who was in Cuddington Isolation ...Read more

A memory of Nork in 1946 by Marie Nicholson

My mother is 83 years old, she lived at No.1 St Georges Terrace, her name before marriage was Joan Cowlishaw. She lived with her father, Jack, who was a french polisher and mother Olive, an older brother William, and ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Amanda Page

I am looking for the living descendants of the little known Victorian print-seller and art dealer George Love (1804-1883) of 81 Bunhill Row in Finsbury, London. His son William ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1910 by Julia Dudkiewicz

Oh, I remember so many things that have been previously written about the village. In the late 1960s I used to work in Keith hairdressers, next to the Bon Bon, and on my day off I used to work in the Bon Bon. The then owners were ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Christine Parry

My dad Fred Brown, estate carpenter at Mountfield, was a good singer and actor and was a member of Robertsbridge amateur theatre group, and I remember going to shows at the hall several times, only one I remember, 'Changing of the ...Read more

A memory of Robertsbridge in 1930 by John Brown

This little ford and bridge over the silver Darent river was, and still is, my favorite place in England. When I attended the Sutton at Hone Primary School in 1947 -1953 we often took nature walks down the gravel path beside the ...Read more

A memory of Sutton at Hone in 1952 by Alfred Ward

I was born in Carshalton and lived at 5 Pelton Avenue for the first 10 years of my life. A Mr Ely lived at No 1, Mr and Mrs Townsend with their 2 children Catherine and Michael, at no 3, us, then known as Barbara Coleman at no 5, Mr & ...Read more

A memory of Belmont in 1948 by Barbara Lucas

Hi there, I am researching the history of a few properties in Little Sutton, and I am trying to trace a house that was called 'Enmore' in 1936, in New Street. A John Baugh lived there up until his death in 1936. ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1930 by Laura Nash

My family moved to the post office in Mytchett Road in 1956 when I was six. I used to catch the bus at the bus stop opposite to go to Ash Vale Primary School. Yes, on my own, clutching my penny ha'penny bus fare and reciting in ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett in 1956 by Faith Moulin

I was born in Sutton Road, Plaistow (Plaster to us locals) in 1944 and from the age of 4 I was free to roam. Things were different then! Barking Road for all the shops, and the pubs. Rathbone Street market on a Saturday, ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by George Davidge