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I used to get off the bus in Windsor Street down by the post office. When I was young there was an optician on the left hand side. I can remember staggering out of there, when I was about six years old. They had enlarged my ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge

My parents bought the then new property of 14 little Bookham street sometime in the mid 1950's when I was a very young child. I went to school in East Horsley and one of my ...Read more

A memory of Little Bookham by lea.christopher

The above memories have brought a lot back to me. I used Barnards for vinyl in the late 50s, my first LP was the Carl Perkins ‘Dance Album’, uninspiring title but a fantastic album of top rockabilly from the king. My second was ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by John Hawkins

It was a very nice post office modern in style a large post office with a sorting post office at the back i used to walk past the post office to school in the morning and back home in the afternoon. To Ton boys junior school. the building ...Read more

A memory of Ton Pentre by bbelgium

I was born in Windsor st 1950 Major was my maiden name I went St Oswald school till 11 then on to the New Albert Memorial secondary modern left there at 15 to start work

A memory of Collyhurst

It was 1953 when my family moved into our council house in Chester Road Slough. I thought how good it was because we had lived in a very small caravan for 4 years and because the number on the door was the same as ...Read more

A memory of Slough by John Wilkins

Hello I have no memory of Biggleswade but very interested because I was born there I lived in Stotfold and went to infant school there and used to visit Letchworth and Hitchin but left the area to go and live in Denham Bucks. I now live in Windsor have moved around quite a lot in my life

A memory of Biggleswade by Gaye Clifford

I'm trying to remember the teachers at Fulbrook School. I started there in the mid fifties . My name then was Amanda Lawrence; house captain for Windsor, when in the senior class. From what I remember, the teachers were History - Mr. ...Read more

A memory of New Haw by Amanda Scott (Nee Lawrence)

I was 8 years old when I arrived in Blandford. It was lunchtime on a Sunday a week before the Somerset and Dorset Railway closed on the 6th March 1966. My dad was in the Royal Signals and he was being posted to the 30th ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp in 1966 by Raymond Parlett

Thousands of teenage boys would have spent their formative years at William Baker Technical School which was housed in the historic mansion of Goldings in the village of Waterford. In 1922 around 240 boys and staff marched from Stepney ...Read more

A memory of Waterford in 1967 by J Parsons