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I was born in Southwell in 1955. In Easthorpe. I still go for walks around town i will be 62 this year. I would love to move back but the cost of houses are to much My first taste of beer was in the Portland. No longer there. I use to go to ...Read more

A memory of Southwell by jwkkkkkkkkkk

I was actually born in Hyde in 1939 but moved to Bredbury in 1940 where Dad worked at Exors of James Mills until his retirement in the sixties. We lived at 5, Newlyn Drive off Bents Lane and I lived there until my marriage in 1966 ...Read more

A memory of Bredbury by enovert68

I lived in Wilton Lodge as a child with my family from 1960 to March in 1962. The year of the fantastically cold and snowy winter. The house was still in one piece although inside it had been turned into a few flats. Our ...Read more

A memory of Walton-on-Thames by francescagreen1952

My name is Bill Elleray and I deposited in Kendal Records a collection of old family documents. Ref: WDX/971 They had been in my family for quite some time, some of them pre-1700. They mainly relate to property in ...Read more

A memory of Winster by elleray

During the years 1960 to 1967, aged 4 thru 11, this was my playground, as well as the Devonshire Park behind to the left. My parents ran the Devonshire Park Hotel during this time in Compton Street, an old ...Read more

A memory of Eastbourne by Paul Biancheri

I lived in the house called Abbotsford in about 1934 which to this day, stands by the side of the America Woods. Once a year, the scouts would camp in the field at the back of the house. I spent many happy times playing in those woods, ...Read more

A memory of Shanklin by Claire Spencer

I moved to Westergate around 1951 (aged 7) from London. My parents bought the local village shop & Off licence in the main road, opposite the Alpha Garage. I can honestly say I had a wonderful childhood living in Westergate. We ...Read more

A memory of Westergate by Mary Woodhouse

As a fully paid up member of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, born in 1947, I've been reading all the stories posted on this lovely website (which - like many others, I suspect - I came across purely by chance). I was born in Perivale ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Peter Taylor

The newly named Pioneer Christian Youth Hostel, (open to all faiths) was situated 197O in the flat (apartment) accommodation basement of the old Methodist Church. The hostel was served by newly ...Read more

A memory of Sinderhope by David Armstrong

My parents had a chicken farm in Selsdon Vale, where I was born in 1948. I lived there until I left home to go travelling and then to university, at the age of 18, in about 1966. This was about the same time that Selsdon Vale was ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Helen Krasner