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The house on the right of this picture was owned by the Parker family who lived there and ran a Post Office, drapery and grocery store next to the house from 1902 until the 1950s. Members of the ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe St Andrew

We are the Pagett Triplets, born 11th December 1953. We lived in Clayworth Drive for a few years and then moved to Kingswood Avenue in Jesmond. I remember the sweet shop at the bottom of Salters Road and thinking Moody's the ...Read more

A memory of Gosforth by bizzielizzieeh

I had just finished adding an Article to somebody else's about Living in Penge. Just as I was about to close I spotted an article by a lady who had lived in Samos Road, Anerley, and who had also attended St Johns ...Read more

A memory of Penge by Anthony Godly

My memories of The Triangle take me back to 1944 when I had completed my first 6 weeks of Army Training and was posted to the ROAC Driver Training School at the Triangle during Oct/November for 6 weeks. The Army ...Read more

A memory of Triangle in 1944 by Kenneth Morley

My first child was born in Thorpe maternity hospital. It's such a shame it cloed as it was a lovely mostly midwife controlled unit but with doctors and surgeons available if needed.

A memory of Littlethorpe in 1880 by Susan Wilson

The sign to the Car Park is the main location clue, - along with the blocky concrete structure alongside the Shelter, the sloping timber launching ramp for boats, and the beginning of the drainage-outfall's concrete ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

I was born at the Ravensbourne Nursing Home , opposite All Saints Church in 1943. At that time my father was in the army and my mother and I lived with my grandparents in Henry Street, my oldest aunt lived next door. My ...Read more

A memory of Gosforth by bunz

Not a memory butI have salvaged (in Sussex) an old photo of : "21st birthday of Ginnie Graham (Mrs Myers) August 19th 1903" Also written on the back is "Mrs Graham Kirby Thore" 28 members of the family, including ...Read more

A memory of Kirkby Thore by tonyslater02

I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

I was born in 1961 in Thorpe Combe hospital in Walthamstow and brought up by my parents in Forest Edge Buckhurst Hill. I consider myself very privileged to have lived there for the first 26 years of my life and have ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Andrew Evans