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Yes I can remember in the 50's as kids in Snakes Lane, racing down to the airport on our bikes if we viewed any aircraft out the ordinary on it's flight path to land. One day in the fifties I rember an aircraft broke ...Read more

A memory of Southend Airport

There is a sense of history by walking along Church Street with its deep guttering, for the times when and where horses were the transport and along to the Church, the Palace Of Eastry, Eastry Court and then Eastry farm and the C. of ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

I lived in Luton from 1958 - 1961 and attended the Grammar School. I have spent most of the rest of my life abroad but returned for a nostalgic visit recently. Luton in those days had a definite Victorian feel about. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Geoffrey Sully

I am 75yrs and writing a book about myself I am not so sure but was not old Bute a place for small children .early 1940 + yrs I think i stayed there until i was 5yrs the house had driveway looks familiar it had a sort of side building ...Read more

A memory of Luton

My parents and grandparents bought Clockhouse Farm in 1938, following the break-up and sale by auction of the Stanley Estate.  A photograph of the farmhouse was shown on one of the pages of the brochure ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge

I lived with a lovely Welsh family in a cottage, on the road down to the viaduct, I have forgotten the road name. The Gwaun-cae- Gurwen Juniors School was nearby; I attended that school ,my foster sister Esther Mary Davies also ...Read more

A memory of Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen by bassemad157

Cabot Knewell, with wife Joan (nee Joan I Smith), was the master butcher at Graham House, 6 Broad Street, Boxford, from the mid 1940s to the 1970s. To the right is the Fleece. To the left, Riddlestons ...Read more

A memory of Boxford by clive

Many times I've walked as a child with my parents and my younger sister after a hearty Sunday lunch, up Broad Lane and turning left down towards the Mitre pub (a personal favourite of my father!). My sister and I would ...Read more

A memory of Essington by Bloxwich Old & New

The Mansbridges were my great grandparents. My grandmother, Elizabeth M Card is buried in the church yard and lived for many many years in the thatched cottage just outside the church gates. I spent many holidays there as I only lived in ...Read more

A memory of Combrook by Philip Card

I spent most of my childhood in Tarves, my father was James Argo the bank manager. I remember cycling all around the grounds at Haddo House, attending Evensong at the private chapel on a Sunday night. I remember Duthie Webster and the ...Read more

A memory of Tarves by Margaret Chick