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1976 - Mark Gruber lived 22 Belmont for the year while Rev. Donald Gruber (father) served the Methodist Church in Uxbridge. Great memories of cycling London, school at Greenway. Dances at the RAF base. Want to ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1977 by Mark Gruber

Me and my brother Norman used to spend most of our time playing snooker at the library. Mr Phil Thomas used to look after it and he, together with my father Billy, taught us how to play. There were 6 tables there. Phil would iron and ...Read more

A memory of Caerau by Arthur Cole

Just south of the entrance to the Airdries was the Methodist Church where we had summer bazaars. Adjacent to this lived Ernie Beard and his wife Betty. They had a Dalmation called Major which I used to walk for ...Read more

A memory of Langstone in 1961 by Michael Davies

My name is Alan Taylor, when I was a baby I was looked after ( unofficially adopted) in 1941 by the Bydawell family, due to problems during the war. Dad (Bill Bydawell) bought a piece of land in The Drive, Ifold and built a temporary ...Read more

A memory of Loxwood in 1945 by Alan Taylor

My family moved to Fordingbridge in 1948 when I was 7. All three boys went to the Primary School and I was the last Head Prefect and House Captain of the Red Team before the older children went to the Burgate ...Read more

A memory of Fordingbridge in 1948 by George Shepperdley

I attended St. Annes Junior School. My aunt, Nancy Bailey was the Senior Maths Mistress in the Senior School. I hated maths, much to her disgust. I enjoyed english, sport. I left early and went to St.Joseph's Convent in Redhill when my parents moved from Thornton Heath.

A memory of Sanderstead in 1959

I remember as a 4 year old, standing outside my late grandmother ( Annie Bailey's ) railway cottage, watching the steam engine pulling coal laden, wooden frame coal wagons past the Railway ...Read more

A memory of Biddulph in 1969 by Rob Bailey

My Grandfather and father carried out work at St Lawrence church in 1956, finding the De Trafford crypt ( Separate entry on this under Rushton Spencer Memories ). Thomas Meakyn was a 21 year old ...Read more

A memory of Rushton Spencer in 1980 by Rob Bailey

Although having no connection with Eversley I have been researching a gentleman named James Hindmarsh who I have found recorded on the night of the 1891 Census as a boarder at the White Hart in Eversley. The Inn Keeper at that time ...Read more

A memory of Eversley in 1900 by Barbara Broadway

I used to visit my Bailey family, they lived on the Pear Tree estate, I stayed with my nan and grandad Bailey in Great Haywood. The fish and chips from Lower Brook Street were the very best, the years between 1953-56.

A memory of Rugeley by Christine Pitcher