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Do you remember those meetings on a Sunday morning when the cycle club turned out for a day trip to Hastings or Dymchurch, maybe to Rye, etc. In charge was Harry Falvis, (not sure of the spelling), a short stocky man from the ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1950 by John Ford

I must have been about 7 years of age or even a bit younger when my mother brought me to stay in a chalet on the cliff edge, just alongside the Ship Inn. I played on the banks behind the Ship Inn and on Cat ...Read more

A memory of Saltburn-By-The-Sea in 1952 by Ian Duncan

Newly born in October 1939, and with the Second World War just starting, I was quickly evacuated to a village called Harpley in Norfolk. My dad, who was in a reserved occupation, remained in London, but for whatever ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1944 by David Newman

During the fifties my friends and I spent many an hour in the woods and playing around the castle, during our school holidays we would be up there from dawn till dusk a few sandwiches and a bottle of water, those were the days. Many ...Read more

A memory of Henbury by David Baber

A close relative, Charles Passey, was in the police force in Abertillery. He married Doll Landon whose parents kept a shop there and I spent many a happy holiday with them in Abertillery in the mid 1930s.  The shop ...Read more

A memory of Abertillery in 1930 by Noelle Southam

I was brought up in Finchley from the time I was born in 1968 to when we left in 1984 and I have very many happy memories.  We lived at 5 North Crescent and I remember the parade of shops between the two entrances to the road - ...Read more

A memory of Finchley in 1975 by Andrew Essex

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I saw this photo and the year it was taken. I was born in 1960 and my mam already had my two older brothers to look after, one was 3 and the other 1. She took us all to the shops one day, ...Read more

A memory of Widnes in 1960 by Susan Miney

Hi, I'm trying to trace my family tree, I am looking for Gerald Lewis, son of the late Gerald and Dulice Lewis (nee Waring).  I was told Gerald Lewis worked with/or was friends with John Hoare, John Hoare  was ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Valerie Waring

Does anybody remember a girl called Iggy nicknamed 'the Eskimo' who lived with her parents in Thornton Heath in the Fifties/ early Sixties? She was born in 1944 or 45 and was, in the mid Sixties, a photo ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath in 1965 by Felix Atagong

The Thames-side Miniature Railway opened in about 1946 and closed in 1954.  The station, which had a single platform, stood at the Caversham end of the line. To the east of the station was the engine shed and, beyond ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1953 by Chris Griffiths