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In 1949/50 my parents moved to Little Morton, Hook Heath Road when I was 2 years old. The house (now advertised as having 6 bedrooms) seemed enormous and the garden was very large. In about 1960 my parents sold part of it ...Read more

A memory of Hook Heath

"It's only wind or powder on the stomach"my Mam had said as she walked home from the ammunition factory on a cold Autumn evening. The "wind" or "powder" was born on the 2nd December 1942. I, Colin Gronow, had ...Read more

A memory of Graig in 1940 by Colin Gronow

My Great Great Grandfather was James Bradley of Clifton-on-Teme (1853-1931). He died rather dramatically at Tedney Bank in 1931, following the Clifton-on-Teme Hunt. According to family lore, he saw the fox, cried out "There's the ...Read more

A memory of Little Merthyr in 1930 by Bryan Mc Cahey

My grandmother lived at 50 Old Park Road, opposite Bloomfield Park, and I went to school at Franklin House School in Palmerston Road from 1955 to 1960, then the Winchmore Hill Collegiate School from 1960 to 1962. I used to have ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1959 by Christopher Liddle

My family lived in Stanner House, a lovely old house in Clara Vale from 1952 until 1964 - my parents moved there shortly after they got married in 1951. I was born in 1958 and can remember the house as if it was yesterday. In the 1800's it ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1963 by Helen Mc Guinness

I just found the Ramsden Bellhouse site and wrote in the guest book. My memories of Wickford are shopping there, watching cricket, catching the bus. I worked in London and more than once getting off the train in ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1950 by Brenda Hayward

I am trying to trace a woman by the name of Lily Fox, born in 1938 in Ireland. We know a Lily Fox married a Derek Rose on the 7th March 1959 in St Barnabas Church in Mitcham. He was a carpenter aged 26 and she was a cashier aged 20 ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1959 by Geraldine O Connor

We moved to the old Fox and Goose (next to the tiny shop and just up the road from the Blue Bell pub) in 1962. I was 8 and my brother 3. We stayed for around 2 years. My Dad worked for Alne Brick Co. My Mum cleaned houses. Our ...Read more

A memory of Alne in 1962 by Sharon High

I was born at the bottom of the Rawnsley Road, by the double bridges, known as Pool End, after Hednesford Park which used to be a pool. I was a Cub in the 1st Hazel Slade Scouts, our meeting place was at the church near ...Read more

A memory of Hazelslade in 1950 by Peter Hawthorne

My grandparents lived in Heathfield Road all during and after the Second World War, my granddad was responsible for looking after the boat house and I think a punt for pulling out drowned swimmers, now all gone, he also looked after the ...Read more

A memory of Keston in 1940 by John Busbridge