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We moved to Bromley Cross about 1947 just before my sister Virginia was born, it was a lovely new prefab, but I don't remember much about the inside of it apart from the wood-burning stove, that sticks in my mind for some ...Read more

A memory of Bromley Cross in 1947 by Julie Christo

Not a memory but an historical fact.  I have traced my family back to Leigh circa 1750.  The patriarch was Anthony Fowler, a carpenter from Bishops Cleeve.  He married Mary Attwood of Bishops Cleeve in 1749.  They had 10 children, ...Read more

A memory of The Leigh by N Kelly

I know very little about the start of my life at the warren i was born in the summer of 1965 at chatsworth house in prestatyn and my mother was resident there in a converted bus belonging to my aunt she had 6 a lot of kids ...Read more

A memory of Gronant by Tracy Thomas

Good morning from Waterloo, Canada. I was absolutely thrilled with your site and stumbled on it quite by chance. I was born in 1943 at my grandparents house at Yew Tree Terrace just off Station Rd. I grew up in Shepley, ...Read more

A memory of Shepley in 1957 by Marilyn Haywood

I remember Rye Lane in Peckham as a very busy shopping centre. I was born in the area and lived in Mcdermott Road in the prefabs (it is now a Charlie Dimock Garden) until I married  in Blenheim Grove Church (behind the station)and ...Read more

A memory of Peckham by Maureen Roose

I was born in Skelmersdale in 1958 to Wilfred Conder and Freada Price. I moved to Newcastle in 1960. My mum used to take me there for my holidays. Her parents lived on Hollands Lane in a cottage. I have not been back since 1980 for an ...Read more

A memory of Skelmersdale in 1966 by Billy Conder

My Uncle Charles and my father James Scott  were born at Nether Hall in the early 1900's. The family was in service to Sir Henry Longman. The main family residence was Shendish House in Apsley,Hertfordshire where my grandfather,William ...Read more

A memory of Hathersage in 1900 by Barbara Gill

I was born and grew up in a happy, peaceful village where everyone knew everyone else. My memories are of long walks in a beautiful countryside which could have been a million miles from London instead of an hour on a ...Read more

A memory of Turnford by Geraldine Atkinson

   Horsmonden - the end of my hop picking days.  I was born in east London 1939 and hop picking was four weeks in the country, camp fire cooking in the evening, a sing along and down to the Gun or the Town House on Saturday evening. ...Read more

A memory of Horsmonden in 1959 by Brian Long

I lived in Aveley Villiage from when I was born in 1957 until we moved to the Kennington Estate about 1971.   We had a funny house in Church View which seemed to be back to front compared to some of my friends houses.   Our end of ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by Ann Mc Carthy