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I kept looking at this photo & wondering why it seemed a familiar view...Then, with the aid of maps & old pictures realised it was taken from the field (Barren Down?) behind my old school, Ivey House. On the right of ...Read more

A memory of Shepton Mallet by bru.enzer

I lived in Elm Park Avenue and was brought up there with my two older sisters. In the 1950's you knew everyone along the street my end. We spent a lot of time in Harrow Lodge Park, jumping across streams and climbing the sewage ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch

I live in East Hill estate from 1964 for nine years until my mum moved out of London to a poxy place called Huntingdon in Cambridge used to live on Yarmouth house. Remember seeing a man coming round silly toffee ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by Michael Higgins

I was born in Camberley in 1953, we lived in Caesars Camp road which joined the A30 London Road just along from the Jolly Farmer pub which stood at the junction of Gibbets Lane. The story we were brought up with is that is was so ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by Clive Watts

I’m not giving my name, but I have always taken as I found, and Malim AKA Mallett was actually really nice to me and stopped me from getting bullied by another kid, and never attempted anything weird with me or any of my friends. Now ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House

Does anyone remember ‘The Bull & Tiger Pub’ in Ripon Way it was built in 1958. It once stood perched on a hilltop in an oasis of grass in the middle of a large housing estate. The manager was Tommy Staunton and his wife Eileen ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood by Victor Rowntree

In 1962-3 I rented a bed-sit in Hughenden Road Clifton for my final year at Bristol Uni. Shared with another chap, also a student. The winter was the year when snow seemed to fall over many nights, the pavements were very slippery with ...Read more

A memory of Clifton by R Stonhold

Sat Mar 20th 2021, at 3:22 pm Peter Tuthill commented: Yes, thanks for the photo of Smuggler's Cottage. It was criminal,wanton destruction to demolish it and throw up those totally characterless boxes. How planning permission was ...Read more

A memory of Portreath by Peter Tuthill

This is actually High St., Langley...my father's shop, R. Chilton, Watch Repairer and jeweller, is visible on the right hand side of the road. We left in 1972, and the house was demolished. A chapel now stands where it ...Read more

A memory of Oldbury by Anne Dyas

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