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Oh the joys .... went here with my brother and the 2 boys from next door. Trying (as usual) to be 'part of the gang' I was persuaded to jump of the spring board ~ problem, I couldn't actually swim at the time! Came up just under ...Read more

A memory of Chatham in 1959 by Carole Longhurst

My memories are of working as a night care assistant from 1985 to 1990. Our work pattern was to work 7 nights on! This meant there was time during the shift to study and admire the fixtures and fittings throughout, as ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand in 1985 by Linda Shaul

I lived at Holmeleigh children's home from August 1966 until it closed down in 1969 to become a college, an educational facility. We were transferred abruptly from another residential settling different village ...Read more

A memory of Horncastle by Elizabeth Farrow

My Mum and Dad lived quite close to Common Stocks, and as a boy along with mates of mine namely Keith Mills and Len Shuttleworth we would often clown around and pretend we were prisoners that had there legs locked as we were ...Read more

A memory of Kelvedon Hatch in 1940 by David Lawlor

My mother was evacuated from London to Ilkley when the first V. bombs dropped. She was expecting me and I was born on 22nd October 1944 in Semon Convalescent Home which was turned into an emergency maternity ...Read more

A memory of Ilkley in 1944 by Irene Selway

My late father, Don Lawes, grew up at no. 121 Byron Avenue on the Poets Estate in East Ham (off High Street North) during the '40s and '50s and attended East Ham Grammar School from 1938 to 1944. My late paternal ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by David Lawes

I lived and went to school at Farmborough, I started school at five years old, my first teacher was Miss Leakey, who later married and became Mrs Smith, two things I remember about her, she had one arm, but was quite ...Read more

A memory of Farmborough in 1946 by John Wilkins

I am Frank and Dorothy Ebbs's eldest daughter, sadly both deceased now, mum died last May; I lived the first 5 years at Manor Farm, Shenley Church End and then we moved to Manor Haven just beyond the Almshouses; ...Read more

A memory of Loughton in 1953 by Catherine Cave

A few of my happy memories of living here in Kirkley Cliff opposite the Putting Green, went to school at was Alderman Woodrow Sec/School helped paint a fishing boat scene in the entrance, days on Trawlers /Drifters as a ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft in 1948 by John Carr

By, this photo brings back memories. I lived at the then British Legion Club from 1951 to 1958 while my mother and father Jack and Mavis Harding were club steward and stewardess. I started school there in 1951 and it has great ...Read more

A memory of Langold in 1955 by Brian Harding