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My father Leon Lalonde was Mechanical Engineer for W&C French from 1928 to 1947. He was responsible for the repair and maintenance of all Mechanical Equipment and Heavy Machinery. The large yard was located ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1940 by Denman Lalonde

I remember the Domestic Oil Stores in Barden Road. In the 1940's I lived in Norfolk Road. They sold all manner of things and there were goods outside, brooms etc. I do remember that two sisters ran the shop and used to see them sweeping the ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge by maureen.finch51

Pantyfedwen, as I remember it from 1971, was the women's Hall of Residence for the College of Librarianship, Wales. By the time I lived there, briefly in the Autumn Term of 1971, it was in the process of being decommissioned, as the ...Read more

A memory of Borth

My sisters went to Whincroft School when we lived in Crowborough. I was at Warden House School for boys (little beasts in reality). I will tell my sisters about this site. One lives in Canada, one in Blandford Forum and I live in ...Read more

A memory of Crowborough by rhysiart

During WW2 I lived with my grandparents, Thomas & Elizabeth Hardman, in Post Office Lane, Norley. This was whilst my father was in the army. I remember going to the air raid shelters situated in the playground of the village school. ...Read more

A memory of Norley by eddisbury

My name is Robert Best. I was born June 24th. 1939 in Plymouth and evacuated to Princetown in 1941. My Mother, her parents and I moved to Plympton when I was 3 years old. I have clear memories of Princetown, of riding the train up ...Read more

A memory of Plympton by rjbmk

I lived on Sutton flats from 1965 until 1975. lived in Crompton house, it was a good place to grow up, safe everyone knew each other. I can remember playing in the Rocket and Mickey Mouse parks, there was a playground in the middle of ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Stuart Wallace

The piece of land on the left in the foreground is now a car park with the Ambulance Station and Health Clinic behind. I worked as an Ambulance Man and was based there when it opened, moving from Thurrock Station in Hogg Lane. The ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by thestockies

I am trying to trace anyone who might be able to throw some light on my Father's childhood....which he spent in Outwood from roughly 1936 to 1943/44..and a bit after. His name: Walter Alfred Bennett (born ...Read more

A memory of Outwood by bennett3112

A pleasant comment on my last memory, made by Mr Steve Flora, whom I’ve never met, has prompted me to tell some more stories about Upper Boddington. On November 25th, 1944, a Wellington Bomber; no. LN242, took off from Chipping ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boddington by Peter Bishop