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The place where the Lydgate tunnel is a left over mound of ground found in the back field. There used to be 2 pubs and a black smithy that fell in and was rebuilt. They used to live and work in the ...Read more

A memory of Lydgate by Nicola Roberts

We lived in Macclesfield. My sister worked there with the children. I suppose she was some sort of aide or nanny. She was a live in anyway. She came home on weekends. My cousin would drive her back on a Sunday night. ...Read more

A memory of Pallotti Hall by Gail Mitchell

In a front garden opposite the back entrance of Brampton Primary School in Alexander Road, stood a huge cherry tree. During the month of April it magically transformed into a spring version of winter wonderland. a ...Read more

A memory of Welling

As a fourteen year old, I lived for a while in a then new house in Stangrove Road. It was a welcome change in many ways from the old brick house we had been in in Oxted, Surrey. One night I thrilled my school friends ...Read more

A memory of Edenbridge by Richard Strange

this place held a lot of bad memories for me, I was sent 3 times in the 60s a lot of cruelty , especially once you left the nursery and was old enough to be on the dormitory up the flight of stairs. the nurse ...Read more

A memory of Hornsea by Margaret Kelly

So many wonderful memories of the "old challaborough" my parents owned a caravan there so we were lucky enough to spend weekends and holidays there. I loved the dolphin cafe on the sea front and then there was another restaurant ...Read more

A memory of Challaborough by Tracy Brown

I had a dream the other night about Enton Hall in WITLEY. I was a student at Guildford Tech in the early sixties. I did a two year hotel reception course and was looking for a job near my home in Godalming. Suddenly out of nowhere my Dad ...Read more

A memory of Enton Hall by Janet Magri

My name is Gary Canham, my brother Richard and I were placed into care at St Mary’s School in Graves End on the 24/04/1961, aged 3 and 2, we remained there till being returned to our mother and stepfather on 22/06/1963. I have ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend by Gary Canham

I used to live in Elmdale Road opposite The Cock pub. I went to St Michael at Bowes Junior School in Tottenhall Road from 1980. Mr Waller was the headteacher then. When I was older I played in Broomfield Park. I then went to ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green by April Coone

In 1946 my parents, grandparents and other members of the family took Spenser House at the corner of Spencer and Constable roads to run as a guest house . the army had been there in wartime. My sister and I went to the Little ...Read more

A memory of Birchington by Penny Jones