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My Quantrill grandparents came with a young family to live near the, then busy, cattle market in the centre of what was a row of three dwellings (now a shop). On one side was the telephone exchange and ...Read more

A memory of Hagley in 1910 by Wendy Larmour

I lived at nine forge field with my Granddad and Grandma and went to school at the local primary school. When I was about eight or nine years of age, I befriended a local landowner from Coopers Farm, his name Mike ...Read more

A memory of Stonegate in 1968 by Kenneth Hazelden

I was born in Northern Ireland and lived in Belfast. One night the German Lufwaffa bombed Belfast - there were 1000 or more were killed that night. I and my brothers and sisters were evacuated to my home town in Lurgan in Co Armagh. I ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1942 by Andrew Toland

So! Back to 11 Woburn Place, back to school on Hope Chapel Hill back to Hotwells golden mile with its 15 pubs. The War was still going on but there was only limited bombing and some daylight raids, the city was in a dreadful state ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1945 by Arthur Cottrell

With my parents I used to visit my father's parents at Nowton every summer between 1946 to 1950. My grandparents were William and Rose Bradley. My grandfather was always in a 'bath chair', I do not know what his illness was. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Nowton in 1946 by Rosemary Coleman

I remember many many things As a child about London Street as for many years my father had a photographic business adjacent to the Olympia Ballroom (first property on the right hand side of the ballroom with the name Photo Enterprise). ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1960 by Frank Waddom Brown

I was born at Trend-de-Hayes off Raworth Lane in 1926 and went on to live at Coventry Corners a couple of years later at a house called 'Roycroft'. I Started school at the Riverside Juniors school, our head teacher was a ...Read more

A memory of Hullbridge in 1930 by Roy Cox

My mother, Josephine Miles, worked with Mrs Thorne who owned the Antiques shop in Church Street, near the Castle. It was called 'Nell Gwynn's'. It was said that it had a secret tunnel that was built by King Charles II ...Read more

A memory of Windsor in 1964 by Carole Freeman

Like others I've read here I too, worked at Mac Fisheries, remember the pineapple fritters? After school (France Hill) on Fridays, three hours work, dinner at the Wimpy Bar then off to the Drill Hall ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by Anthony Norris

Samuel George Marlow, who was reputed to be my great-grandad, lived at 10, Bungalow Road, Thornton Heath, London, SE25 6JZ at the time of his (belated) marriage to great grandma ...Read more

A memory of South Norwood in 1890 by John Howard Norfolk