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In this year I was 5 years old, and just starting school in the church hall in Gore Road, which is the road in which I also grew up. I remember Burnham as a small, close-knit community, we went to church every Sunday, it was ...Read more

A memory of Burnham in 1962 by Lucinda Tabram

Every year we would go to Pooles on the High Street to get yellow fishing nets so that we could go and collect tadpoles from ponds around the area. We would deliberate for a good while over what colour nets to get but we ...Read more

A memory of Goldenhill in 1971 by Tina Stanyer

My parents Angela and Leslie Jecks-Wright bought the house in the picture, on the right, and made a successful business called the Moat Tea Room of it!  Our house was at 64 Fore Street. We used to get coaches visiting the castle, and ...Read more

A memory of Framlingham in 1970 by Virginia Jecks Wright

I was born in the Shrubbery Nursing home in 1956. I grew up in Lane End, about 5 miles away. I have photos of me looking awful in baggy knickers on the Rye (the park in Wycombe town) as a toddler. There was a play area on the ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe by Vicky Searle

This is one of my biggest memories of growing up in Port Isaac: On summer days my mum Joyce May would take me and my sister Elizebath to Port Gavern beach for the day. My mum would make a packed lunch for us to ...Read more

A memory of Port Isaac by Miss Patricia

Having grown up in Birstall I have a fondness for this little market town in West Yorkshire, situated approximately 8 miles from Leeds and centrally placed for easy access to other major towns Bradford, Huddersfield and ...Read more

A memory of Birstall by Jennifer Ineson

This card shows the Banstead War Memorial before it was moved to its current positition in the 1990s. Sutton Lane was very narrow in earlier times and conductors used to have to get off the bus to ...Read more

A memory of Banstead in 1947 by Lewis Wood

This is a picture of Station Road with Snapes's hardware shop on the corner.  The petrol pump was no longer in use by then but the paraffin one was. Opposite Snapes's is Oak Meadow where we used to play on our bikes and climb trees. ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle Hulme in 1968 by Bryan Baskerville

Preedys was the main tobacconist in Wolverhampton and the Express Cafe at the bottom of Queen Street is where I used to go for dinner on a Saturday after working the Minors matinee film at the ABC cinema in Garrick street. There used ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town in 1960 by Gordon Ford

I was evacuated to my Grandparent's house "Hope House" The Street Radstock during the war years - they were Mr and Mrs H.D.Plummer and lived in Hope House with their Daughter Gwendoline Edwards and her three sons Ivor, ...Read more

A memory of Radstock by Brenda Hacker