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My aunt and uncle lived in Windward House on Shore Road, Kilcreggan, during the 1960s and early 1970s. My uncle was deputy headmaster at Greenock High School and travelled over to school every day on Ritchies' Ferries or the ...Read more

A memory of Kilcreggan in 1968 by Gillian Redpath

The Church is the resting place for all of my foster parents family, the Simmonds. The graves were all purchased by the family ready for that time. Unfortunately, Dick Simmonds was not buried there as he lived in Stroud ...Read more

A memory of Easthampstead in 1950 by Colin Lennox

My family moved to Roxwell in 1970 from Westland Green, Little Hadham, Herts into the Manor House, known as Dukes Manor. The house was the former farmhouse for the Foreman family, but Lance Foreman preferred to live in Lightfoots, ...Read more

A memory of Roxwell in 1970 by Simon Lyon

I remember standing in the oast house with my neighbour Mr Rammult and my dad Eddie Styles, smelling the marvellous aroma of the hops as they were being dried. It is a smell that brings back many happy memories and stories about the hop fields.

A memory of Monkton in 1968

I stayed at HOLLYBROOK GUEST HOUSE, and had a lovely time on holiday there in 1963, I was wondering if it is still there ?

A memory of Ilkley in 1963 by Allan Poole

I was born 1945, lived with my mum and dad in one room at back of my granparent's house, 67 Monington Cres, which had a huge back garden. It backed on to the Parkway and I had many great times there. We would go to ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1955 by Keithy Turner

During the Blitz, my mother, Gladys Lane and her sister Rose were evacuated from Chadwell Heath to Mountnessing where they stayed at a house called St Leonards. This is the house next to the school, for they stayed with ...Read more

A memory of Mountnessing in 1940 by Christine Matthews

My father Dennis Stephens, used to manage the tennis courts and bowling green on Mill Hill Road. My aunt Effie Wheildon, took over the pet shop after Grace Shatwell ended her tenure and moved from her bungalow (opposite our house at 59 ...Read more

A memory of Irby by Arnold Stephens

A South Londoner, I was 12+ when WWII started in September 1939. I was evacuated with Wandsworth Central School to Farncombe, and remember sitting on the floor in a large hall waiting for someone to 'adopt' me. Eventually, I ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe in 1940 by Ronald Waller

I have been renting a property in Beaucroft Road, Waltham Chase for just over a year. I always knew my family came from Southampton and we always assumed all past generations did as well until a cousin of mine recently ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Chase