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My uncle, Reginald, always called Dartmouth, "The Town That Time Forgot". And he meant that in a good way because Dartmouth was largely unchanged over the years and of course, as a result, is now quite the ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth by Robert Pavlick

Our Aunt had a really Art Deco property in Jaywick- curvey windows, flat roof the size of a football pitch(it seemed); huge room with amazing folding dividing doors. And the whole place smelt of Jaywick sand. Not polluted sand, but ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea

I remember going down Snakes Lane to the airport as children and playing in the shelter by the bridge. Later in my early twenties when my husband was working at the airport and we had a frogeye sprite which he ...Read more

A memory of Southend Airport by Corinne Fisher Nee Reynolds

Grew up in Moorhead Shipley and what even struck me then was the snobby and small town attitude of some of the residents! I had a Jewish father and a socialist non-believer mother who were both brought up in the area. I ...Read more

A memory of Shipley in 1960 by Jane Smith

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

The East Dart Hotel is located towards the middle of lonely Dartmoor and the drive there has fabulous views of the Tors. Mind you its not easy for a driver to admire the scenery as in the evenings there seem ...Read more

A memory of Postbridge in 2012 by John Howard Norfolk

My sister, Mary, was born in 1946, where I was born 1949. She'd take me on the bus from Royston to see some films at the Staincross cinema. The only thing that I remember was that it was somewhat run down but yet had a feel about ...Read more

A memory of Darton in 1959 by Roland Mitchell

Half way down Garfield Road was the Recreation Ground; better know to all as simply the Rec. It was quiet a large area bounded on one side by Garfield Road and the other by the River Wandle, about which more another time. Along ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1954 by David Aubrey

when I was about a year old I moved to the Hough from Englesea Brook, where my parents lived for a couple of years. I went to school at Shavington and was good friends with John Addison, Alan Giller (the latter living ...Read more

A memory of Hough by Mark Tyrrell

This photo shows the shop where I was born in the 1950's - my mum's name is on the sign above the shop, June Veronica Hicks. The photo must be after 1964 as it was my dad's,John Hicks's Newsagents shop & that was the year he died. ...Read more

A memory of Feckenham in 1964 by Jayne Walker