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I moved to Mitcham Road, Tooting, near Amen Corner and next to St Boniface Church, from Putney at the age of five. The year was 1947. The maisonette we lived in was above a perfume factory, it’s now an Indian restaurant called ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1950 by Kit Wells

I was born in the village in 1942 at 61 Stone Row, one of four cottages behind the post office - the post office and village store was owned and run by Mr and Mrs Sargent back then. Alveley was a quiet village and only came to life ...Read more

A memory of Alveley in 1947 by Bill Scriven

My Great Grandad Joseph Askew came to Bolton-upon-Dearne around 1876 from Lincolnshire . He worked at the newly opened Wath Main Colliery (where there is now a Golf Course) On doing my family tree I found out the he and his ...Read more

A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne in 1870 by Terry Askew

My parents still live in Northolt - I originally came from Arnold Road. I went to Northolt primary and Vincent . I go back to Northolt quite a lot and how it has changed. Does anybody remember the accident I had in the play park with ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Richard Donald

We moved to Cheadle Hulme from Barnton in 1957 when my dad bought Miss Young's bakery at 38 Station Road. In those days it was a lovely quiet village, not at all the bustling suburb of today. Our bakery was at ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle Hulme in 1957 by Maggie Day

My uncle, Jimmy, had a caravan berthed in McIntyres boat yard. I remember there was another caravan next to my uncles, the family I cannot remember their name, but they had two daughters who were called Iris and Ruby. The ...Read more

A memory of Port Bannatyne in 1967 by Bill Johnston

We lived in Chalfont until 1961 when we moved to Leigh-on-sea. I lived up the footpath in a bungalow at the side of the garage, opposite The Pheasant pub. I remember putting pennies around the green, and shopping in ...Read more

A memory of Chalfont St Giles in 1956 by Susan Dalton

For six years, when my children were small, we rented various cottages in Collieston. Two of my children took their first steps there on the sands to reach the sea when the tide was in. We walked every good day to Hackley Bay and ...Read more

A memory of Collieston by Margaret Chick

I remember Mr Colwill & his son, I used to keep my horse on the land below the hotel owned by the local coal merchant. As I met more locals we used to have parties in the old ball room with Nigel ...Read more

A memory of Little Bookham in 1964 by Sarah Rashbrooke

I lived in Hackbridge from 1942 to 1953 at the Hackbridge Drill Hall. I was a school girl when I went there and a married woman with a family when we left. My father died while in the Army employ. I came back to England in 2011 on a ...Read more

A memory of Hackbridge in 1943 by Doris Hartin Chamberlain