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I remember while at school with a 20 min walk to the church and or to the cinema to see the first showing of Disney's fantasia then walk back to school those were the days I was staying in the school from about 1964 to 1969 I ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by smager4

My Life in Rosedale Abbey - Raymond Beharrell During the last war my brother and I lived in York very near to the main railway yards. The area was always on the target for the German bombers, being railway sidings. ...Read more

A memory of Rosedale Abbey by fichrist

the year would be around 1978, I know this for in this year I passed my driving test, anyway we came to live in New Yatt having moved from Wantage where I grew up, so as one can imagine was not very happy having left my friends and the area, ...Read more

A memory of New Yatt by 144acopy

Hi my name is Bryan Hall, but when I was born it was Bryan Daniels. Because of my mothers persnal difficulties I was taken in by the Surrey County Council aged three months being put into council care. In 1945 I was sent ...Read more

A memory of South Darenth by Bryan Hall

after sharing a house with my aunts in broardview avenue rainham in the late 40s we moved to romany road 1950 we were the first family onto the road , only a few houses were up so lots of brick stacks to play in , the top end ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by woolg.chris

My father relocated our family back to England from Nyasaland (now Malawi) to Bozeat in 1962 and he became station master at nearby Castle Ashby Station. The 1959 move to Africa ended with the demise of The Commonwealth. When Britsih Railways ...Read more

A memory of Bozeat by bernard.wall1

I was born in Battersea in 1938. We lived at 28 Forthbridge Rd near Clapham Common. With my mum and sister, I went to the Granada cinema loads of times on a Saturday night. Often you had to line up to get in and they had ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by tedpettit

My then boyfriend told me to take the throttle of his 650 Triumph Bonneville - putting eye makeup onat the time I believe - said I’ll have the clutch . When I say open her up just let her go - so I did! We went over the Blackwater Bridge ...Read more

A memory of Blackwater by hillibeen

My parents returned to UK to put my brother and I into separate boarding schools. I went to Kingsley, Horley from 1960-63. My name was then Alison Kirby. I remember Miss Willetts as my form mistress and she taught Nature Study. ...Read more

A memory of Horley by alison

I lived at Hounslow West and went to Hounslow Heath infant and junior school. Don’t remember much about the infants. My first teacher in the junior school was Miss/Mrs Roberts. I remember filling up the ink wells in the desks. This would ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow