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Alan, can you jog my memory please? As you came down the hill, on the left just before the little Tesco's, there was a small derelict cottage. I can remember creeping in there one day and finding an ornate cast iron fireplace. I went ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1954 by Sandra Waite

Hazel, was no 16a above a bank? Because in 1948 I'm sure there was a family called Bibbins living there. Maybe this was before or after you were there.

A memory of Tilehurst in 1948 by Michael Taylor

I lived in Clarendon Road until 1954. Does anyone remember the V1 doodlebug that crashed in Whitenights Park, causing a huge crater? In those days we would spend a lot of time in Earley Woods at the back of the allotments at the ...Read more

A memory of Earley in 1940 by Lewis Shaw

I was born at 9 Frederick Street, in 1941, and my earliest memory is of flags, streamers and buntings strung across the street every time a soldier came home 'from the war'. I don't know why, but the Union Jack flag absolutely terrified ...Read more

A memory of Widnes in 1941 by Jackie Worrall

I have great memories of Cinderford [Bilson Green areas] from 1953 to 1961 when I was growing up. I remember riding go-carts down the hill. My mother was born in Cinderford [Margaret Hale, married name Hancox and she worked at ...Read more

A memory of Cinderford in 1955 by Phillip Hancox

Sometime in the late 1940s my family moved from Upper Cwmtwrch to the Gurnos Council Estate in Lower Cwmtwrch and lived there for the next nine years. I have many memories of the place. The main source ...Read more

A memory of Lower Cwm-twrch in 1940 by David Lougher

I was born in Walton Hospital and lived in Vauxall. My dad came from Vauxall, my mother from Lattermer Street. My mother's name was Molden, she was from a very big family but try as I might I cannot find any trace ...Read more

A memory of Walton in 1930 by Margaret Gilmore

My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at ...Read more

A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by George Whittingham

In the 1950s and early 1960s my brother and I were fostered to a Miss Little and her sister at 8 Shalborne, there were several children living there and I have many fond memories of our stay. We used to sleep in a ...Read more

A memory of Shalbourne by Rob Barnett

I am pretty sure this must be along the Dorking Road looking up towards the Downs. It looks like it is on the left going up towards Polesdon Lacey? Can someone confirm I am right here? ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham