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Interesting to see Windermere Avenue mentioned. I lived at #57 Windermere from 1941 until I married in 1957. When we moved in and throughout the war, our house was 4th from the end of the avenue - the others were built after the war. Our ...Read more

A memory of Elm Park by eewatts

I wonder if anyone might remember my father who was a teacher in and around Worcester for many years. He began his career at a primary school in Claines, probably in the late 1940s. Thereafter he worked at St Paul's Secondary, in a building ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by gerr.quinn

My mother wrote her childhood memories about 10 years before she died in 1992. She was sent to Friars Children's Home for the sole purpose of working when she was 14 in about 1926. I think that her ...Read more

A memory of Bocking in 1920 by Mary Hill

I was born and lived in Chequers Lane Walton in 40s. Our house which was No 74 was the Police House and I used to cycle to St Hildas School at Tadworth, run by Miss Adams who lived in house opposite Chappell's ...Read more

A memory of Walton on the Hill in 1950 by Alan Cooper

My mother (nee Briggs) lived in London Rod, Greenhithe. My maternal grand father was Basil Briggs a self-employed builder in Greenhithe. He died in 1953, the year of my birth. My father lived in Castle Street, Greenhithe. ...Read more

A memory of Greenhithe in 1953 by Stephen Morris

I lived at 21 Rydal Grove and went to Southwark Street school in the 1960,s. Left in early 70's. My dad's name was Derrick Routhan he worked at Bairnwear then the NAAFI on Bottle Lane sadly he died in 1985. Remember so much about Old ...Read more

A memory of Old Basford by Janet Waldram

Whilst researching my ancestry I learned that his mother, my Grandmother Beatrice Emily Sharp died in 1969 in Runwell Mental Hospital (as it was called then). I never knew her but know of this place as although it ...Read more

A memory of Runwell in 1959

I remember many happy summer holidays in East Grinstead. My grandparents bought a cottage with a large garden in Hermitage Lane, and opened it as a market garden named Uplands Nursery in about 1950. My grandfather, Major Braga (he ...Read more

A memory of East Grinstead by John Braga

I remember as a young boy Fairchildes school , we lived in Castle Hill Crescent and walked in all weathers to school. I remember Mr. Hedges, Mr. Breed, Mr. Watson, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Rutter Mr. Morgan, Mr. Best, Mr. Trinder, ...Read more

A memory of New Addington by Peter Lester

I was born at Broadhill Maternity Home in 1949. It was sold in the autumn of 1946 and in 1947/48 it was known as Green Hedges. The new owners had previously ...Read more

A memory of Broadhill by Jane Webber