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Memories of Frimley back in the early sixties. I worked at Southern Instruments on Frimley Road and the first telephone answering machine was developed on site (the machine was the size of a small suitcase). There was a record shop in ...Read more

A memory of Frimley in 1960

I was born in 59 Durham Buildings - love the memories. My dad used to drink in the Nags Head pub across the road and work in Gartens factory - the smell was around all week bar Sundays. Me and my two sisters, ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by James Reilly

I was an 'inmate' of Roecliffe Manor Convalescent Home around 1958/9. I had an operation on my tonsils and went to Roecliffe to recuperate. I think I was supposed to spend about two weeks there but I lasted around five days! ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves in 1958 by Janet Mills

My grandparents lived in Ditcheat; Sarah and Hubert Burrows. They had three daughters, Elisabeth (Bessie), Gertrude (Gertie), Pamela and also a son Mettford (Mett) Burrows. My mother Pamela, like her siblings, was ...Read more

A memory of Ditcheat in 1952 by Pam Mears

At the foot of Windsor Castle on the Datchet Road is St. George's private school, which is within the castle grounds. My mother's mother (my gran), worked in the kitchen there. When I was small (about 10), we would go every Sunday ...Read more

A memory of Windsor in 1952 by Roy Mc C Lean

When we moved from Wales I lived at the fairly extensive Sayes Court Farm caravan park off Liberty Hall Lane, before we settled in Addlestone Park Ave (defined by the statues of knights at the top). At 15, I went to ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1954 by Myra Greer Nee Griffiths

My father was killed in 1941, and my mother re-married in 1945 a gentleman who owned a nursing home in Cheltenham. It was in Victoria Walk along from the Town Hall and had huge cellars that stretched to under the Town hall. ...Read more

A memory of Cheltenham in 1947 by First Name Last Name

I lived in Taunton from about 1953 until I left for London and then on to the States in 1969...I lived in Stoke Road and went to St. Joseph's Convent and then to Weirfield, which is now a part of Taunton School, I believe. A ...Read more

A memory of Rumwell in 1967 by Gillian Turner

RE: Growing up in Fawley Memories of my misspent youth growing up in Fawley were brought to the fore last Marc;, as my dear mum passed away, myself, husband and youngest son spent 5 lovely days in a rented house in Hythe as we ...Read more

A memory of Fawley in 1951 by Susan Allinson

We were the Clarks who lived at 'Cotswold' Nine Mile Ride, out of Wokingham. I would sit on our front gate with pencil and paper taking number plates of cars going past to California. My mother rode her bicycle to work in Wokingham, ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham in 1950 by Judy Macdonald