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This looks like the bridge over the canal at the Addlestone / New Haw border but I can't be sure. If it is I remember my parents taking us there (early 70's) to watch them put in new lock gates. The gates have the year engraved into ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1973 by Karen Rogers

Hi, I am Louise Brown of Australia. My grandmother Ellen Maud Edwards (married name Jefferis) lived with her parents Samuel and Alice Maud Edwards (Searle), at the cliff Cottage on the Peek Estates around the ...Read more

A memory of Rousdon in 1900 by Louise Brown

I was born in Worcester and brought up in G Witley until I left in 1976.  I remember the days at the school, cricket and football; the Easter Monday Red Marley Hill climb; walks in the hills and visits to the court; days in the sun; ...Read more

A memory of Great Witley in 1960 by Bill Dallow

Many fond memories of Longleat over the last 46 years: the freedom we all enjoyed as villagers to roam across the estate - the sixth Marquess was always very generous in this respect. The remains of the American hospital were still ...Read more

A memory of Longleat in 1966 by Geoff Pridmore

This was the town I grew up in until I was 8.  There is one day that stands out in my mind.  My mother had been informed that the local fruiterer had oranges. His location was about half a mile from our house.  England was still ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1949 by Raymond Garfield

This is where I live, it is no longer a village post office. It was built in 1680, and we are returning it to a residential property.

A memory of Clophill by Stephanie Howson

This is the street where I was born in 1940, our house is just out of sight, but when I left school in 1955 I worked for a short while in the shop adjoining the post office. Sadly my father, who was in the Army, was posted to ...Read more

A memory of Sandhurst in 1955 by Mary Back

The 1881 census shows my grandfather (John Smart) and his family living in this house.  He was the Landscape Gardener of the park.

A memory of Lancaster in 1880 by Hazel Veitch

If you stand outside Toymaster (in the Carfax) and look towards Boots this is about where this photo was taken. The big building to the right remains; King & Chasemore but the buildings to the left were demolished in the ...Read more

A memory of Horsham by M

I remember going to School in the village when I was 7 - not much has changed here since then - amazing - except that the tardis on the right hand side is no longer there! The School is still in existence and I have ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich in 1967 by Debbie Williams, Nee Smith