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I remember playing cricket on the green here. The cinema across the road was where we once listened to Norman Wisdom - from the outside, we couldn't get in aged 12! I visited this road July 2009 for the first time ...Read more

A memory of North Tidworth in 1965 by Peter Hayward

I was born and grew up in Neilston with my twin sister and brother. My mother had also been born there. Although I moved to Barrhead for a few years I spent so much time going up the hill to Neilston I thought it was time I moved ...Read more

A memory of Neilston

I knew Fred Potter and his family in the early 1960s - Fred and I dated for a while. Many times we got off the bus on the main road (I lived in Nailsworth), often straight from school - he at Marling, me at High ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe in 1962 by Carla Radok

I started staying with my Aunt Reeves and Uncle Sam at about 2 years old. I remember we use to go for long walks across the hills which was the golf course, or we would meander through Cowdry Park. Aunt use to take me to Bendboe ...Read more

A memory of Easebourne by Eileen Crowhurst

Hi, my name is Richard Bierdrager. I went to Hurn Court School from 1975 to 1980, after which I returned back to my home country of Thailand and finished my secondary education with a high school diploma. The friends I had there ...Read more

A memory of Hurn by Richard Bierdrager

The Oxleys. Deep in the Worcestershire countryside…at the foot of Clows Top hill, Lies the house called the Oxleys…a once sweet antidote to life’s bitter pill. The family home of the Keegan’s…where visitors ...Read more

A memory of Clows Top in 1971 by Stephen Parry

I lived by Figges Marsh in Mitcham, just over the border with Tooting from 1948 until 1967. In fact I was born in the house I lived all those years in. I early on discovered the movies and I remember with great pleasure going ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1960 by Paul Trevor Bale

From leaving Bookham I moved to Dorking where I worked for the same family at Dorking High Street, Earlswood Lakes and their Wimpy bar at Box Hill, it was good. I lived over the shop, the tobacconist, and I know and love Dorking.

A memory of Box Hill by Veronica Parker

I was born in Ewell in 1945 and lived with my family at 156 Banstead Road South from 1950 to 1966. My first school was Miss Attrel's at the top of Station Road opposite the garage. I used to walk from home and back although a bit ...Read more

A memory of Belmont in 1951 by Hugh Soper

This photograph shows two ladies chatting together in the foreground.  On the right in the floral dress is my mother Mrs Beatrice Farnsworth.  My family have been farmers in the locality for three generations.  My mother's car is ...Read more

A memory of Worksop by Claire Allen