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I remember going to Maidstone Zoo, I believe it's location was Detling Hill, the old road going downhill from what is now the Kent showground. If I remember rightly there was a lift system in which was pulled up and down by elephants, ...Read more

A memory of Maidstone in 1957 by Graham Pudney

I remember being taken to Lochranza just before my fifth birthday. My mother, sister and I went and we sailed from the Broomilaw in Glasgow. I seem to remember that the ship we were on was the Dalreada (spelling may be wrong). While ...Read more

A memory of Lochranza in 1930 by Angus Mac Kinnon

I spent a lovely sunny July evening with my morris dancing friends at Babbacombe providing a musical and dancing entertainment for the holidaymakers on the Downs. The entertainers were the ...Read more

A memory of Babbacombe in 2009 by John Howard Norfolk

I lived in the cottages on Sanderstead Hill (opposite Purley Downs Road), they were built in 1895 and my mother lived there for most of her life. I lived there from 1943 (my birth) till 1965 when I emigrated to ...Read more

A memory of Sanderstead in 1948

Hi, I am am Betty Edmonds, and I have the greatest memories of Fronwen School, the park in front of Adare Street, and buying frozen Birds Eye peas  at the corner shop near the Co-op. I also remember the faggot and peas man ...Read more

A memory of Ogmore Vale in 1954 by Liz Bowen

I lived in Nightingale Terrace, off Hanbury Road, until I was eleven. I remember Chatham's shop, with the wooden bung in the cracked window - it was like that for many years. My sisters and I used to spend our sixpence pocket ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewynydd in 1955 by Diane Evans

There was a wee shop on the High Street of Lesmahagow that my mother always took me to as a boy. Down the left side were tables where you could sit and have juice and stuff, (not sure what I had, but I bet it was gooey and good! They sold ...Read more

A memory of Lesmahagow in 1964 by First Name Last Name

I moved to Dagenham with my family in 1949.  We lived in Cartwright Road off Hedgemans Road.  I have memories of long hot summer holidays off from Finneymore Road School.  The days were filled with trips to ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1950 by Joan Cotton

I have fond memories of our family holidays in Chapel St Leonards in the 1950s, it was also where some of my relatives lived and worked. I remember the giant fish that was washed up on the beach and I ...Read more

A memory of Chapel St Leonards in 1950 by Maureen Burdett

Can anyone remember the old windmill in a field just off Olney Road? It was blown down in a very strong gale in, I think, March 1948. I seem to remeber that 2 sisters by the name of Little, used to live in a house very close by. It was in the area where the original houses in Mill Road were built

A memory of Bozeat in 1948 by Albertw Welch