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My Nan and Grandad owned the grocers shop on the corner of Argyle Avenue and Whitton Road which was called Betts Stores. (Betts was our family name.) Mr Hill was the delivery man who used to go out on his bike to make the ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1970 by Sharon Jeffries

It's late Friday night and you're hungry. I mean really late. 2am. What do you do ? You go down Princes Avenue to Arnett's bakery and queue up at the back entrance sniffing the goodies being baked for ...Read more

A memory of Kingston upon Hull in 1978 by Mr Sosgez

It's not an actual memory, but my grandad, Tom Gurney, used to fetch me from the nursery, put me on his shoulders and take back to the house up at Heol Isaf. I have many fond memories from home, I was a bit of a rat bag when younger, but my ...Read more

A memory of Brynmawr in 1968 by Simon Johannis

Back those days (1960-1970), pen-friendship was the big deal as Face book/Bebo is today. I used to have a penfriend by the name of Karen Francis. I am from Mauritius - a tiny dot in the Indian Ocean - and relating to Rainham, ...Read more

A memory of Rainham in 1968 by Mannix Bassish

In Bonnie Scotland The road back to Campsie Glen Is a forty-year long tunnel of mist! Dug deep into the cut bedrock of memory, And neatly knitted in the multi-storey labyrinth Of pouring passions, in pounding poems!! ...Read more

A memory of Campsie Glen in 1965 by Dr. Feisal Esmael

I was born 1941 in Raneleigh Road Nursing Home in Mount Charles. I was brought up in Rope Walk Lane opposite the old Primary School. There was a cement works part way down the lane. My mother (aged 19) worked in the 'Food Office' in St ...Read more

A memory of Charlestown by Philip Rogers

I moved to Osmond Gardens in Wallington when I was 4 years old. I went to Beddington Infants School, then Holy Trinity Primary School in Bute Road and finally Carshalton High School for Girls. Looking at all these photos ...Read more

A memory of Wallington by Hayley Heffernan

I was born at 28 Oak Street Garden City, in June 1947. My father was a miner in the Brit and in later years so was my brother Brian, my father was John David Evans but better known as "Dai Queenie". After 28 years of ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1947 by Beverley Evans

Hello, I now live in Co. Waterford. I gave my name as I was known in 1949. I lived with my Gran - Annie Evans - & Grandad Will at 26 Bryn Terrace, almost at the top. Grandad was a miner (he went underground at 11 years of age) ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1950

My parents were from the area, Dad from Bryants Botom, Mum from Gt Hamden. They shifted to New Zealand straight after they were married, leaving all friends and family behind. Mum always talks about Chequers. As kids, me and my two ...Read more

A memory of Prestwood in 1976