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My earliest memories of the old Hove Town Hall are of a massively impressive red brick building opposite which was a 'Gamleys' toy shop to which I'd be taken by my mother whenever we had enough money! There used to be professional ...Read more

A memory of Hove in 1971

I grew up in Hove in the 1950s in Connaught Terrace, a small, seemingly insignificant road of terraced houses just around the corner from this church. The structure behind the church spire in this photo is a gas holder. The streets where ...Read more

A memory of Hove in 1958

We moved to Buckingham Road in Edgware from Islington, I thought then that it was the country, I went to Edgware junior school in High Street, I think it's been knocked down now, then I went to St Thomas in Canons ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1971 by Derek Doyle

My aunt and uncle ran the New Inn in the 1930s and 1940s, possibly before. Their names were Patrick Huston and Annie Huston. Also living with them in the early 1940s were my grandmother, Mary Evans, and my Auntie Lou. I lived in ...Read more

A memory of Shalfleet in 1930 by Betty Gale

My aunt Phoebe and uncle John George Charlton lived near the hump bridge crossing the Sunderland to Newcastle train line. We got off the bus at the Wheatsheaf pub travelling from Gateshead to walk about one hundred yards. ...Read more

A memory of Sunderland in 1940 by Les May

I spent many happy weeks at Reighton Gap in the early 1960s. My grandparents, John and Pat, lived in Sandsdown on Boatcliffe Road. They also owned four further bungalows at Reighton Gap which they rented out to holidaymakers ...Read more

A memory of Reighton by John Whitehead

I remember going down the field when there was swings, a roundabout and a slide just by the little woods and further up the pit heaps were the so-called big woods. We used to all go up to the little woods and play foxes and ...Read more

A memory of Tindale Crescent by Stephen Metcalfe

We moved into Earlsdon from Wales in 1965 and stayed with my aunty who lived in Belvedere Road. Such a big house with three floors and close to the Spencer Park tennis courts as I recall. The bus used to stop right outside the front door (no ...Read more

A memory of Coventry by Shirley Jones

I was born in Leicester in 1958 and shortly afterwards my dad and nana bought a caravan that was sited at Mr Metcalfe's site on Brick Lane. Our caravan was called Niaroo and was sited next to an apple tree. We ...Read more

A memory of East Runton by Carole Smith

We moved from Balham to Burgess Hill in 1956. My parents had bought 267 Junction Road and then proceeded to renovate the house as it was in a shocking condition. Both my parents worked in London so I walked to my grandparents' ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1959 by Fran White