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I used to visit my grandparents (Gran and Robert Pearce) in 2 Tanyard Cottages when I was a small boy between 1949/55. I can remember the cottage next door was owned by Mr and Mrs Lindsell and their ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside in 1950 by Bob Newton

I lived and worked in Twickenham from 1962 and 1969. I lived at 125, Staines Road and worked for the Metropolitan Water Board, based at a small depot in Nelson Road, close to the fish and chip shop. I was what was called ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham by Alfred Winkworth

These photographs remind me of Cannock and how it was when I was a child, ten years old in 1965. It's an odd thing to remember and I wonder if anyone else remembers the public toilets that were downstairs beneath the grandstand, ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1965

I went to Barrow Hill School in the early fifties, Mr. Rees was the Headmaster. On a Friday evening we would go into his home and watch the Cisco Kid on television, the first television I ever watched. I also remember one ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1951 by Daniel Wright

My grandfather (who I never met) Clarence Bartels lived with his wife Grace and two sons Adrian and Roland in Kingshill Avenue. My father (Adrian) tells me his father worked in a shop called Goodworths in Worcester ...Read more

A memory of Worcester Park in 1955 by Sally Anne Eade Nee Bartels

The shop opposite the White Hart public house, owned by Simonds, was called Lays Stores. My mother and father bought it in 1952 and ran it till it closed in 1962. Before that, they owned the fish and chip shop which has now been ...Read more

A memory of Thatcham by Trevor Collins

I was born at 19 Church St, St Peters, where my grandfather owned the butchers shop. My first memory is of playing on the lino floor just inside the front door. My father, who served in the RAF during the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1950 by Ronald Taylor

When I was very young, just before 1950, I can remember High Bridge was like this without the footbridge beside it. Without so much traffic it was safe to walk over the main bridge. Then the river was tidal and had banks of mud on either ...Read more

A memory of Spalding in 1955 by Barbara Taylor

I lived as a child at 49, Washington Road, Worcester Park, Surrey, which I learnt to relate parrot fashion as a 5 or 6 year old in case I got lost. We had a black dustbin with the Number 49 on it, a monkey puzzle tree in the ...Read more

A memory of Worcester Park in 1954

I was born in Mount Pleasant Rd in 1947 and lived there until 1959 when we moved to Norfolk, attended Bruce Grove Jnr School and then Rowland Hill. I can remember being taken home from school by my teacher during the smog and ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham by Geoff Brown