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Our Aunt had a really Art Deco property in Jaywick- curvey windows, flat roof the size of a football pitch(it seemed); huge room with amazing folding dividing doors. And the whole place smelt of Jaywick sand. Not polluted sand, but ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea

I think this was in the mid fifties. We lived at 15 Dunraven Street and at the top of the street there was quite a steep hill (it's all closed off now) and at the top of the hill was an entrance to the Forestry Commision ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by Jeffrey Warner

I lived in Runcorn until I was 8 (1960s) and I remember going into town on the bus with my mother. We would always stop at "Le Rendezvous" (which as a child I remember thinking was a very strange word) and she would get a "frothy coffee" ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn by sc_taylor

My family moved to Cowplain in March 1961. I was 10 years old and went to Stakes Hill Junior School. From there I went to Cowplain Seconday School for Girls from 1962 to 1967. On the corner of Sylvester Road was Pine Tree Stores. I ...Read more

A memory of Cowplain

I started school in 1954 and Mr Parker was the headmaster. I lived in Ashbrook Drive and the houses were brand new. I do remember walking home from school one lunchtime in the snow and arriving home unexpectedly as I was ...Read more

A memory of Ponteland by vpendleton

My sister and I worked at the hotel as chambermaids and in the bar and kitchen we slept at the top of house in an attic room I wrote letters home to a boy who came to visit called Pip and we had so much fun we ...Read more

A memory of Abersoch by aliceincinders

I was a student at Oakmeeds before it went comprehensive. In those days we had huge playing fields looked after by my mate's dad Mr Agate. The footpath ran straight through the school and the general public could walk through anytime. ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill by april20007

I was born in Croydon in 1936, and lived In West Way, Shirley. My mother could not bear to part with us, so we lived at home all through the war. A bomb was dropped into the garden next door. After six months it was discovered it had ...Read more

A memory of Shirley by heather

I remember the small grocers in North Cheam with the terrazzo floor called Sainsburys. We used to go in and get the ham sliced with a machine, cheese sliced with the wire and leave my sister outside in the pram! I remember the tiled floor! ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam by mrsrscourt

I went to Scracebridge in 1957 as part of the "Grammar Stream" waiting for Haywards Heath Grammar School to be completed. The"Grammar Grubs", as were were affectionately known, received a pretty hostile reception, and we were ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath by adrian