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We lived at Trusthorpe Hall as children.  My mum and dad were Walt and Millie Slater and we were Pat, Janice, and Carole.  Jan and I went to school at Sutton on Sea.  My dad started the caravan site and the club. We had ...Read more

A memory of Trusthorpe in 1951 by Carole Mitchell

My family moved to Watford in 1953 to a large house in Rosslyn Road, a side road within a few yards of the Rickmansworth Road right opposite the Town Hall concert hall entrance. I spent virtually all my childhood there plus the teen ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1953 by J Lawrence Prior

In the '50s this is where I would catch the bus to Woking and on the right, to Guildford, where I travelled to school.  My abiding memory is watching the Shire horses being uncoupled from a Barge (to the right rear of the picture) and walked ...Read more

A memory of Send in 1950 by John Jelly

My name is sammy strachan I lived at 9a Middleton st the miners row's behind the commercial bar from 1952 until 1962.my fondest memories are of the primary school,the high parks,over the bing playing,and the outside toilets.simplicity I know ...Read more

A memory of Ferniegair by samuelstrachan60

The Lion & Swan Hotel Congleton Story has it that The Lion & Swan in Congleton was made from ancient timbers, even today there are some solid twelve inch by twelve inch supports on display but who knows where ...Read more

A memory of Congleton by Alec Coles

When I was a child in the ‘50’s around 5 years old my aunt and uncle ran this pub together with a couple of pigs, goats, chickens, geese and a cherry orchard! It was such fun spending weeks of school summer holidays there together ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood by strangwendy07

I used to go to Bishop Simpson School in Carlton Road in the 60's. I used to hang around with Rosemary Harrington and Jacqueline Grimble ( does that ring a bell to anyone?) My sir name then was Case!. I used to go to the baths, shall never ...Read more

A memory of Redhill by Anne Maxwell

My memory. Is my family and friends meeting up there seeing Aunty Joyce behind the bar. Everyone was Happy to see each other. Paper straws. Never. Lol. Mam playing bingo would buy me pop and crisps. Then thwack me for making a noise. She ...Read more

A memory of Bircotes by sheenajackson10

I was born on the Clayponds estate in Carville Crescent. I had 2 sisters & 3 brothers, myself being the youngest. I went to Lionel Road School then Chiswick Grammar School for girls. I left Brentford in 1961 when I got married. ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Jean Soulsby

I stayed here with my parents in about 1968, when I would have been 10. We were visiting my great-uncle, the pioneering air-to-air aviation photographer Charles Sims, who lived at Wootton, near the then recently closed (and now happily ...Read more

A memory of Fishbourne by socaman_58