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Dear Whittlebury Alumni, I have many pictures of my late Dad Sunil Bramdaw's stay at Whittlebury in the early 60s. First a student at Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire and subsequently at Whittlebury Lodge College in ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury by Nirode Bramdaw

I have found the love of my life, Sandy Tickner, thank you for your help in finding her, it has made my life a whole lot better.

A memory of Whitchurch by Rodney Abbey

I didn't live in Chester-le-Street (I lived at Fence Houses) but I used to work at Brough's Grocery Store at the top end of the main street and then I went to work at RODNEY DRESSES factory as the wages were a bit better and I ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street in 1950

My husband and I have many fond memories of Wooburn Green. We bought our first home, Millstream House, on Glory Mill Lane, right opposite the Wiggins Teape paper mill. Our first child, Clare, was also born in Buckinghamshire at ...Read more

A memory of Wooburn Green in 1971 by jillplaisted

Since my birth coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in the September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity;  I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey house ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1945 by Heather Rohrer

In 1955 my husband who was in the American Air Force was stationed a Brize Norton, and we lived in a house which I think was called Brookfield in Uffington. I had my son Gerard at the John Radclife Hospital in Febuary 1955. I am ...Read more

A memory of Uffington in 1955 by rosebud28

I was told by my mother that my grandparents moved to Tattershall in 1912 from Buckinghamshire so my grandfather could find work helping to restore the castle he was a carpenter. His name was William Bywater, known as Roger, they lived in the village for many years.

A memory of Tattershall in 1910 by Marie Clark

I have fond memories of living in Willesden where I spent the first five years of my life until leaving London during the war years (1939 - 46). I remember in August 1939, dressed in grey shorts, school blazer and ...Read more

A memory of Willesden in 1930 by Milton Freeman

I was born and raise in Battersea from 1948 till late 1960. My father David Beardall owned a second hand shop in Plough Road also he was a totter drove a horse an cart. During the time I worked in a soft drink factory in st. John hill if ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by patbeardall

The old St James Barton area of the city was demolished in the late 1950s to make way for Bond Street and the bus station. The rebuilding of the city started almost as soon as the Second World War had ended. ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend