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I remember every summer holidays staying in a caravan with my brothers and sisters at our dads builders merchants. Every day we would go to the triangle and get fresh baked bread from garners and try not to eat it ...Read more

A memory of Wembley

We moved to Bayston Hill ( shrewsbury) around 1990... A beautiful leafy lane .. Grove Lane... no. 8.. We had our dog.. ( Biko) and soon got settled.. our neighbours were; no. 6 were Bunny and Barbara Hancock... amazing friendly ...Read more

A memory of Bayston Hill by Pat Gomersall

Opposite Morrissons below where Windsor Gardens is now situated in Lower St. was a car sales lot known as Jock Bone. I bought my second car from him, a Standard 10 after trading in my Ford Prefect. He sat in a caravan at the ...Read more

A memory of Kettering by raw50

I WAS BORN IN CANNOCK IN 1967 AND MY DAD DROVE A MISTER SOFTEE ICE CREAM VAN. THE MISTER SOFTEE/LYONS MAID ICE CREAM VAN DEPOT WAS IN HEDNESFORD OPPOSITE THE GLOBE PUB.I HAD SOME FANTASTIC MEMORYS BEING WITH MY DAD ON THE ICE ...Read more

A memory of Hednesford

We moved from Bexley Village to Barnehurst in 1971 when I was four years old. I grew up with my sister and two brothers on Eastleigh Road where all the children used to come out ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst by reunsie

My stepfather, Frank Russell, owned a tobacco and confectionary shop at 76 Wells Way, Camberwell in the late forties and early fifties. He and my mother married in 1952 at the church on the corner of Wells Way and St Georges ...Read more

A memory of Peckham by Paul Russell

I don't remember any of my childhood until I moved to Peterlee in 1971. I was 5 years old at the time and was started at Eden Hall infants. When I moved to the big school aged 7 I was placed in Mrs Hoy's class, she was a ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee in 2014 by Stuart Wright

I moved with my parents and sister to stadhampton in 1952. I never went to the local school as l had just started at senior school and it was decided l should stay there. I soon felt part of the village getting to know the local ...Read more

A memory of Stadhampton in 1952 by Doreen Austin

I was at school then not a good time the head Master had it in for me my mum sorted it. By the way I am Susan Scott my married name was Phillips I enjoyed my childhood life in Hazel Grove. Torkington Park the red reck. ...Read more

A memory of Hazel Grove in 1952 by Susan Phillips

I can repeat much of what has been said by others. I was born in Stepney in 1946 and after a period of homelessness and moving from friend to friend my parents were given a prefab in Foxglove Crescent (no. 25) It was a fairly ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1950 by Ken Nicholls