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I lived in Alderley Edge as a child between 1947 and 1955. I remember going for walks on the Edge, and being told about a legend that Merlin and King Arthur and his knights were sleeping inside a cave there, waiting to be ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1954 by Elizabeth White

My brother used to live in Chelsham Rd. in Clapham, London, which runs from Gauden Rd. to Union Rd. In 1960 & 1961, I stayed with him for a week's holiday. He was on British Rail at Nine Elms. He has since passed away He ...Read more

A memory of Clapham in 1960 by Trevor Page

The left-hand elm survives as a 15ft stump draped in creeper, but the right-hand one has gone. Here the architectural revolution can be seen: the older inn buildings are to the right with early 19th-century sash windows, and the taller ...Read more

A memory of Horley

I was employed to fell the elm trees lining the walk during the Dutch Elm disease crisis that cleared so many beautiful trees from a lovely area. My only consolation was the glorious view up to Oliver's Castle which is now sadly blocked by housing estates.

A memory of Devizes in 1977 by Tim Evans

Late in 1945 my parents moved to 25 Busk Crescent, in Cove. The house was on top of a hill and overlooked the Farnborough airfield. From the front bedroom you could see aircraft landing on the runway. The house was one of a string of ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by Alan Hickman

I remember the green double decker buses revving up Crays Hill in the snow and jamming their tyres against the curb to try and get up. We lived in Elm Bank on the hill and sometimes witnessed the buses sliding side-ways back down ...Read more

A memory of Crays Hill in 1977 by Helena Mead

The Sandeman Family moved to Four Elms in 1950. We moved from Bexley Kent. Winnie and Richard were my parents my brother Mark had just been born in September. We moved to Wendy's bungalow, just on the corner next to the post ...Read more

A memory of Four Elms by gavin

This is the village where I grew up, my parents moving into their very old, somewhat dilapidated cottage at the end of the war. This was 'The Folly' at the eastern end of the village opposite one of Tandy's farms. Why it had that name ...Read more

A memory of Pavenham by Stephen Wessel

My family moved to Fairlight Avenue from Potter's Bar in 1949 when I was four, when my dad got a job as signwriter at Walthamstow Stadium [as the dog track was known then]. I went to King's Road C of E and Wellington ...Read more

A memory of North Chingford by Richard Clark

I was born at Waldegrave Terrace, Radstock but moved to Elm Tree Avenue, Westfield a mile or so up the hill in 1952 when I was 6. I used to go to Miss Hill's infant school at the top of Bath Old Hill and my sister went ...Read more

A memory of Coleford in 1953