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I have been trying to remember the School House names. I think there were 4, one being Ewart, the head's Christian name. I was a member of both football and cricket teams. I was also a House Captain, the ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1957 by Terry Pepper

My grandad lived in Second Street (Joseph Harding), I only ever met him once. I am now 68. He was my mum's dad. He worked in the local pit. My mum moved to London when she was very young, as her dad had remarried and ahe ...Read more

A memory of Blackhall Colliery in 1952 by Myra Mizon

My memories start long before there was a Tithe Farm estate. In my time it was a farm and the footpath I used to go to school started there, it meandered al the way over the fields to Carcutt farm, where I lived all ...Read more

A memory of Houghton Regis in 1940 by Barbara Ercegovic

My brother owned the Hall for a number of years, my parents also lived there. I can clearly see Johnny the gardener, he lived in the little summer house in the rose garden, just right for him as he was a dwarf. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Wickhambrook in 1973 by Carole Miller

I remember with great fondness old Grays. I was born in the back bedroom of 191 London Road, Grays. My mother and father lived with my mum's mum and dad, also my brother Ronald was born there 7 years before that. London Road was a ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1953 by Valerie Bailey

I have walked past this brewery many times as a child and an adult, it felt spooky, a large dark stone building. But there was also another brewery on the opposite side of the road with a very big house in its ...Read more

A memory of Stacksteads in 1951

Redbrink Crescent, Barry Island was where Emma Ellen Mitchell and her husband James John Mitchell lived, these house were built by James Michell's father, the mariner John Maerdin Mitchell. My dad was ...Read more

A memory of Barry Island in 1920 by Warren Finch

I have so many fond memories of West Molesey. Although I can't remember the exact year - we moved into Molesey when I was very small. My dad - Mick Darragh - was a butcher in the shop directly opposite St. Peter's church and ...Read more

A memory of West Molesey by Penny Pottinger

My parents met at a place called Thornypits and married during the war years.They were George and Pam Edwards, he was a local barber and came from Killarney, Southern Ireland, she came from Ditcheat, near Shepton Mallet ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn in 1942 by Pam Mears

My great-grandparents named their house in Hounslow-Ombersley. They moved there before 1924 as I have pics of my mother at the front gate. I wonder if either of them came from Ombersley and what is the connection. My ...Read more

A memory of Ombersley by Elizabeth Jennings