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I used to go to the Bell Street Evangelical Free Church during my teenage years in the 1950's. I joined a group called the Campaigners and in the summer months we used to play games in the Priory Grounds opposite. The minister ...Read more

A memory of Reigate in 1952 by Robert Wilkinson

Hi, my name is Margaret Henderson (nee Percy). I lived in Westerham, Kent but worked in the Croydon Model Laundry. I used to travel by bus to Croydon every day from Westerham and then walked down Surrey Street markets to the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1962 by Margaret Henderson

...but the main road - London Road, I believe it's called - that runs through Ascot, down Wells Hill and to the roundabout just to the church end of Sunninghill village before going on through Virginia Water. The bridge was demolished ...Read more

A memory of Sunninghill in 1964

My sister and I were in Myton Hamlet Children's Home which was in Warwick/Warwickshire. We would come by Lloyds Coaches on a Saturday, this was the start of the holiday. It took us all day to get there, no ...Read more

A memory of St Mary's Bay in 1960 by Robert Foster

I lived in Wealdstone but went to the Wembley Majestic every Saturday evening to dance to the Roy Kimber band. It was a great place to meet girls, but there was no liquor sold there and we had to go out to the pub down the High ...Read more

A memory of Wembley

I was born on April the 19th 1957. My dad was called Erne, and mum was called Maud Frost. I went to St. Blazey School and first we lived at 110 then we moved to 128 Landreath Place. Mum an dad have past away and my ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1957 by Wendy Frost

I remember the shopkeepers; Rees Jones & Fred Palmer (the butcher) also Sgt Brace at the Police Station. I also have very fond memories of the Bedwellty Show and the ink stamps on your hand to let you back in ...Read more

A memory of Cefn by Anwen Parry

Mum was born at Cavenham and she was one of a family of 16 children. My sister and I spent most of our summer holidays at 13 The Street, with two uncles as Mum went to do jobs for them, as one was blind. As soon as we got to Cavenham ...Read more

A memory of Cavenham in 1954

Sailing my mother's woodbines in the brook down the gutty and seeing if I could catch them at the other end. Mainly just beautiful memories of days gone by... Uncle Lal and Uncle Menna singing in The Dog and Rabbit. My parents came to Coventry in 1955. Hilary Whitehead (nee Harvard)

A memory of Treharris by Hilary Whitehead

I need drawings or photos of the gardens at Felixstowe's shelter before it was pulled down.

A memory of Felixstowe in 1988 by Paul Turner