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I was one year old when WW2 began - in 1938. Most of my visual memories stem from that time. I remember, without any facts to support them, the large white house that stood in the grounds of Waitrose Car Park and was in ...Read more

A memory of Barnet in 1949 by Roland Wood

I grew up in Kepple Road at no 22, opposite the little flats between 1962/83. I went to Altmore/Napier-Nelson/EHGS/Langdon schools. I recall the High Street and I worked on the seafood stall outside the Cock for Pete. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by Russell Oliver

My father was in the US Air Force and we rented an apartment from Lady Stickland in the Old Hall. I went to the local school and was asked to play Snow White in the pantomime. We were in Snettisham when President Kennedy was ...Read more

A memory of Snettisham by Paula Sabo

Although I was actually born in Holbeach Bank, and spent the first 3 1/2 years of my life in Holbeach St Matthews, I spent my childhood in Holbeach St Marks. My mother and father Ray and Greta Gray, ...Read more

A memory of Holbeach St Marks in 1955 by Alan Gray

I can remember meeting my 'first boyfriend' David Harding when I was 14, and him buying me my first Welsh doll. And having lovely walks up the 'Grieg' and being able to watch the wild horses, and actually sitting ...Read more

A memory of Aberbargoed in 1860 by Margaret Marshall

I was three when we moved on to Whitehouse Lane, and stayed until I left Codsall Comp in 1974. I loved the town. Anyone who remembers me and wants to get in touch can do so at www.markpsadler.com

A memory of Codsall Wood in 1960 by Mark Sadler

Its 1965 and I'm a 5 year old boy living in Tonbridge. Now, there was or still is a large white house almost opposite a green near to where there used to be a cinema. Can anyone else remember this house, what it was (children's ...Read more

A memory of Rusthall by Ralph Town

My family moved to East Ham from Mile End. We lived on White Horse Road, and I attend Brampton Manor. My brother and sister attended other schools. We used to to the reck centre in Central Park, on Saturdays, it was so ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1975

These are Bedfont memories of my father Peter Brunt, born in Bedfont in 1932. Does anything ring a bell with anyone? Lawrence's orchard and chicken farm was opposite Bedfont School. The field next door to the school ...Read more

A memory of Bedfont in 1940 by Joanne Brown

I lived at 4 Fairlands Avenue, Buckhurst Hill. My parents moved there just before the Second World War, and I was born in April 1939. I well remember W.C.French Ltd's yard next to Fairlands Avenue fronting the ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1940 by Richard Moules