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My mum & dad used to take me and my sister to Margate (Cliftonville) for 2 whole weeks back in the late 50s/early60s. I shall look up some old photos when I have a chance. Although we didn't have much money then, we took a bus ...Read more

A memory of Margate by Wendy King

QUEEN ELIZABETH GRAMMAR AND DARLINGTON IN THE 40’s and 50’s I was born and lived for 18 years in Pensbury Street. Then Hargreave terrace. And grateful for the 1944 Education Act. Still. ...Read more

A memory of Darlington by Robin Matthews

I remember happy childhood holidays at Talacre. We would stay in a wooden chalet belonging to a friend of my Dad's. He would pick us up in his Ford Anglia, my dad would sit in the front. Then Mum, my sister Annette and myself would sit in the ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by a.penty

I lived in Goldsmiths Avenue during my childhood. We moved there when the build was finished in 1947. My father was a shell tanker driver. I remember being in bed one night when some of these tanks exploded. There had been a ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by thestockies

My Aunt Joyce (born 1931) used to live on Churston Drive. She told me this morning about how she was walking to school with a friend one morning during the war when a German plane machine-gunned ...Read more

A memory of Morden by David Stephenson

It was 1966 myself and 2 colleagues were bouncing across the downs in a Landrover when I first saw Imber. What a beautiful little village nestled in the bottom of the valley. It's red brick manor house next to the church and ...Read more

A memory of Imber by Chris Scott

I was a pupil at BCHS from 1958-63 and have painful memories of him, albeit possibly unfairly. During a 3rd year biology lesson our female teacher regaled us of pranks she had undertaken at Uni which ...Read more

A memory of Braintree by Brian Canfer

In 1940, we were evacuated to the village of Metfield, with my mother and brothers. A Mr and Mrs Godbold let us move into one of their cottages on the farm. On going to school, the local children would call us 'the ...Read more

A memory of Metfield in 1940 by Douglas Smith

We moved to No. 6 Tipton Vale in 1950. Maureen a baby, myself (Valerie) and parents Eric and Joan White fom Fenny Bridges. The house was a new council house, pink and blue. Dad dug out a bank at the rear and we found ...Read more

A memory of Tipton St John in 1950 by Valerie Jordan

I remember you, Paul Smith from Chapel Hill School and High School. I also remember you going to New Zealand. I see John Mews occasionally in the White Hart at Braintree having morning coffee so I shall ask him if he remembers you. ...Read more

A memory of Braintree by Delia Norfolk