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My parents, Arthur and Olga England, ran the Hostel at Drayton Parslow back in the 1960's for the London Brick Company. The Hostel was situated opposite Love Row, where the Hostel was is now known ...Read more

A memory of Drayton Parslow in 1963 by Paula Ward

I lived on River View Park estate and by the age of 10 would cycle to the woods near Shorne village. There was an abandoned gravel workings and the area was a great place to play. We found a crane we could climb on and other ...Read more

A memory of Shorne in 1966 by Robert Campbell

So much and so little time; Green Top Primary School, happy days before the big move up to the Grammar School or North Eastern Road Secondary Boys. Mr Morris for metal work, Mr Snow for woodwork. Mr Colin Ella for religious ...Read more

A memory of Thorne by David Walton

Does anyone remember the children that lived in Highgrove House? I think it was run as an orphanage or similar. I used to catch a bus outside the house and was most times threatened or scared witless by the kids from there? I wonder what happened to them?

A memory of Eastcote in 1958 by Jacqueline Timms

In 1925 the BBC chose Borough Hill near Daventry as the site for their new national radio transmitter, which would bring a ‘National’ service to everyone in Britain from one site. This was followed in 1932 by the opening of the Empire ...Read more

A memory of Daventry by Julia Skinner

I spent approximately 2 years as a messenger boy with the then GPO, based in two gracious old homes along Wimbledon Parkside. Their names were Gayton, and Martholme. I seem to remember the address ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1943 by Charles (Chas) Joyce

In my father's diary for 1952 - I have all his diaries here in Frankfurt, Germany, where I have lived since 1973 - there is an entry : Stanley Watson, Governor of the Harris Orphanage, was sent for trial. ...Read more

A memory of Preston in 1952 by Diana Dioszeghy

Eileen Handley My father was born in 1937 in Birmingham, UK. He had an older brother Gordon (known as Tom) and a baby sister Eileen. When my dad was 4 years old, his mother (Amy) died from Bronchial Pneumonia. His father ...Read more

A memory of Birmingham by Pam Jacobs

Hi my name is Doug Wilson. This site brought back so many memories. I was born in a bungalow in Wingletye Lane in August 1954 but moved to Great Gardens Road when I was 9 months old. From the time that I was allowed to cross the ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by Douglas Wilson

I was born at Low Westwood, a small mining village in the North East of England in 1955 – well, when I say I was born there, that’s not entirely true. Unlike today, children were born at ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1960 by Kathy Aveyard