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I was born in 1949 to Nellie and Ashford DISNEY. We lived at 15 Albert Road, and my father worked in the Post Office at BATH'S on the Weston Road. Mr. William Bath was my father's uncle. Before Mummy and Daddy got married, ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1949 by Janet Moran

I still remember the thrill of walking down the drive from Cheshunt Sec' School on the last day, with the image of it burning on the back of my neck. Refusing to look back I was saying to myself, "I will ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt in 1963 by Valerie Pedlar

At the age of 14 my father began work as an apprentice pawnbroker for the firm W. Paines & Co. at their Strood branch on the corner of High Street, and Station Road. The firm had 3 branches. The apprenticeship lasted 5 years, followed by a ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Ann Claydon

I remember being a young whippersnapper in the good old Kippers Junction and the man who lived on the end of the street was named Joe Bigs. But he was always smoking about 20 snouts at 1 time. So we used to call him Old Smokey Joe - he didn't like the name but no wonder we called him it.

A memory of Tullibody in 1980

Does anyone remember Mrs Burrows? She taught Eva Clark and me (Audrey Cox) at the Stoke Row school? Does anyone remember how Stoke Row celebrated the coronation of King George VI? There were games and refreshments and a coronation mug ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Row in 1940 by Louise Strieby

Summary House, constructed in 1601; converted to mid C18 coaching inn, and later divided into a pair of cottages, now returned to a single dwelling. Reason for Listing Scarrow Hill is designated at Grade II for ...Read more

A memory of Scarrow Hill

I am doing an ancestral search of the McLean family who hailed from Easdale - Agnes McLean, Domestic Servant born 1855 and married in Glasgow 1885 to Donald McDonald, a grain storeman. I am a ...Read more

A memory of Balvicar by Eleanor Macdonald

I lived in a flat at 185a Kensington. I recall watching the Lodges marching along the road on the 12th July. We would walk down Brunswick Road into town. At Xmas, we would go to the grotto at TJ Hughes, I remember ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1957 by Sue Bence

I was born in Abridge in 1964, the last of 9 kids. We lived in The Mead which is no longer there. Abridge was a great place to grow up, we would play outside in the woods or over the shallows all day and only come home when ...Read more

A memory of Abridge by Clare Horgan

By the late 1960's ICL had absorbed much of the country's computer industry and had several manufacturing centres at Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Letchworth. It needed a base for running ...Read more

A memory of Hedsor in 1970 by John Howard Norfolk