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Another reason that I liked to visit Leatherhead was because my Auntie Mag had a shop there and I was always guaranteed a welcome that invariably included a sticky bun or some similar magnet to a young ...Read more

A memory of Leatherhead by Brian Simmons

My first posting concentrated on my birth and school life in Barking, next a little about different memories of my early life. I lived in the prefabs in Ilford Lane on the corner with Victoria road, a few more yards up ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

My father owned the corner shop (newsagents) adjacent to Park View Road, opposite Holy Trinity church from 1961 until it was pulled down in 1968. My parents, sister, brother and I lived in the accommodation above ...Read more

A memory of Southall by soberty1956

Travelling down to Greatstone in Grandad's Commer Van, Grandad driving, Nanny & Mum sitting up front, Dad, elder brothers Tony & Teddy (Edward ),sister Kathy, younger brother Brian & myself jammed in ...Read more

A memory of Greatstone-on-Sea by timbirks50

My mother was born in Hadleigh, (the Suffolk one) and was part of a quite large family headed by George Brewster. Many members of the extended family, frankly I never really knew. However, mum was always close to ...Read more

A memory of Polstead Heath by Ted (Edward) Marston

Does anybody remember me. I was called June Warne. I lived down St Dunstans road, then Cedar Road in Cranford. I we to Cranford Primary School. I was born in 1945 and have a younger sister called Jackie. I used to have a v ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow

I was raised in Penge - spending most of my time enjoying playing on bomb sites and the change from post war austerity to the better times of the early sixties - and can remember many of the photos displayed. I moved to Elmers ...Read more

A memory of Penge by jananchrisx

Hi my name is Cliff Jones and I was born at Hengoed in 1946 I am one of five kids I was 5yrs old when we moved down to the village because our old house had been condemned .Our next port of call was Almond Avenue in Gobowen I ...Read more

A memory of Gobowen by jones.clifford42

Mum was evacuated to Ledbury in 1940 when she was aged 15. She spent two very happy years living with the lovely Preece family. Mum attended Ledbury Grammar School, the 'Country House' in the Frith postcard. ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by Liz Jarrett

Hal's Café, The Caprice, Bernies, were the favoured meeting places for the Motor cycling boys form Morden and the surrounding areas shoving tanners in to the juke box and trying to make a cup of coffee last for about 3 or 4 hours. On ...Read more

A memory of Morden by malclatch