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I write from Queensland, Australia in the hope that someone may read this and be able to provide further leads or information. My husband Bill has an original birth certificate dated 18th May 1948 - mother Elizabeth Theresa ...Read more

A memory of Caterham in 1948 by Denise Allan

I moved to Ham in 1959 from Kew and left in 1984 after coming back from a short spell of living abroad with work. I went to St. Andrew's school (now St. Matthias' church) then, St Richards with St Andrews on Ashburnham Rd. We lived in ...Read more

A memory of Ham in 1965 by Ray Gillon

My father was transferred to Handley Page, Radlett from London in 1955. We moved to Bricket Wood where I lived until I got married in 1970. Remember playing on the swings and roundabout on the green, which was opposite ...Read more

A memory of Bricket Wood by Denise Large

Does anyone have memories of Marlands in the early 1960's? It was owned by the 'Simpsons' and operated as a boarding school. Like me, most (if not all) of the children, were in the care of local authorities, coming to Marlands from ...Read more

A memory of High Halden in 1963 by Dilly Braimoh

The Miss Georges were relatives of my husband, Allen George. We believe they died in the 1970's when they were in their eighties. Allen remembers them in the 1950's, they lived in the cottages, St Mary's Cottage ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1952 by Olwen George

Towards the end of the war a 'British Restaurant' was built in Brent Street, immediately to the left of this photograph viewpoint and directly opposite the Brampton Grove junction (Barclays Bank as shown in this ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1944 by John Barnes

We lived in this house, our dad was Albert Sheldon and the shop was called Goods Stores. It sold everthing, and had a Post Office, a Haberdashery counter and a Bakery and general food stores...we also had a huge vat of Molasses out in the ...Read more

A memory of Coolham in 1949 by Patricia Limanni

I lived here from 1965 through to the end of the seventies. The council offices are on the left, just out of view and before the fire station. Old Lodge Lane is on the right. You can see the roof of the Orchid Ballroom building on the ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1965

I remember going to grandads; he lived by the clay pit in Foxhole and he worked there together with his two sons. He lived in a cottage and the railway ran by the house. There was a large shed next to the ...Read more

A memory of Foxhole by Liesel Miller

I believe that the original 'Fred' was an alias for a Elias Marsh b.1895, was a coal miner from Crook, County Durham. It is said that he walked to Slough around the time of the Jarrow marches. He is ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Nigel Marsh