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My mother was born in Streethouse and my father moved there as a young boy. Although we lived in Normanton I spent many happy hours in Streethouse as many of my family lived there (some still do). I remember the long ...Read more

A memory of Streethouse in 1950 by Joan Hill

My grandmother lived at 'Staddle Stone', Portishead and I am trying to find where her house may have been; it overlooked the channel. Can anyone help me please..

A memory of Portishead in 1960 by Janet Clarke

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 remember the Old Maypole that used to stand on the green, I can't remember when it was felled. It seemed huge to me so am thinking that it must have been when I was very young (born 1947). I lived in ...Read more

A memory of Middleton Tyas by James Corps

Born in Westerham in 1964 in Maden Road and lived there till I was 8.Tthen we moved to Ash Road to a new house, then I moved to Leybourne when I got married. Westerham is a very nice place to grow up, I went to St Marys then on to Churchill School

A memory of Westerham in 1964 by Diane Martin

I haven't actually ever been to Bearpark but I did visit my godmother's family who lived I think, in Waterhouses which I believe, is not too far from Bearpark. I remember visiting Durham Cathedral and going down a mine where I ...Read more

A memory of Bearpark in 1948 by Anne Archer (Nee Bearpark

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

I grew up in the same house until I was 18, from 1946 - 1964 when I moved to London. My dad was a butcher for East Fife Coop and my mum worked at the farm prepacking potatoes. I have great memories of the cul-de-sac. I ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1950 by Anne Ihde

My grandmother who had lived in Elstree for most of her adult life would sometime chant "no one knows what lies betwixt Saint Nicholas and Pennywells" Does anybody know what lies betwixt? Saint Nicholas is the parish church and Pennywells is a stately house on Deacons Hill.

A memory of Elstree by John Gates

I lived at 24 Derby Street from 1948 to 1958. It was a family road with mum an dad living at 28 and brother Jim up the road. I remember Billy Dags who owned our houses. I remember going over the road to Joan's shop to have a tin of beans ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Garry Cooper