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I spent my first five years 1924-1929 in Blindley Heath, possibly the nicest years of my life. I may have gone to the school there. I clearly remember Gibb's store when I spent six glorious ...Read more

A memory of Blindley Heath in 1920 by Stanley Austin

I attended Downham Market Grammar School between 1953 and 1956, when I left to start work. I lived at Fincham, but was a friend of Cedric Peto (whom we nickmamed Pedro). His parents kept the village shop and I used to visit them ...Read more

A memory of Hilgay in 1955 by Alastair Crichton

I was something of a naughty boy back in those years: there were four of us young lads who were to bus it to Barnsley from Royston where we were barely old enough to go sampling Barnsley Bitter. If we were sixteen let alone eighteen ...Read more

A memory of Barnsley in 1965 by Roland Mitchell

I loved Bailiff Bridge - I was there from 1943 (when I was born a Baldwin) to 1961, when I came to college in Hull and settled nearby. I loved my school, with its large shelter in the playground; I loved Miss Ashton, ...Read more

A memory of Bailiff Bridge in 1949 by Wendy Cross

We moved to High Wycombe just after the war when Dad came home and he went back to work for the London Transport at the bottom of Marlow Hill. We lived at first in Suffield Road and I went to the Church Of England ...Read more

A memory of Tylers Green in 1947 by Anne Sheridan

On August 13, 1961 I took up residence as a student nurse in Lindsay Smith House across from the hospital. It was the day the Berlin wall went up, and, as I recall, the day before the grouse shooting season began. I was 19 ...Read more

A memory of Virginia Water in 1961 by Patricia Hampton

These memories really are 1944 to about 1953. The corner shop by the church was a favourite as they used to sell home made toffee when sweets were on ration. One character I can still see was Mr White the baker being taken home ...Read more

A memory of Minster in 1944 by Michael Heyes

I lived at 20 Silver Close, Harrow Weald from 6 weeks old in 1941 until I left for Australia in 1961. I atended Harrow Weald Infants School from 1946, the old building was opposite the bus garage in the high ...Read more

A memory of Harrow Weald in 1941 by Colin Lane

I moved to Marchwood in the mid 1960s, I was not very old. We lived in an old house on the edge of the village, called Glengarriff. The old house was pulled down many years ago. I attended Marchwood Primary ...Read more

A memory of Marchwood

My sister and I were evacuated to Wickford in 1940, I was just over 5 years old and my sister 11 years old. We came from the east end of London. We moved into a bungalow with an elderly lady called Mrs Walker, there was also a ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1940 by Leonard Askew