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In the 1920's my parents bought a new build property in Limbury, number 8 High Mead, the only detached property in the road (It cost £620.00), but being situated on a bend the property was lacking garden space as the land was ...Read more

A memory of Luton by ducatee

These are not my memories but those of my grandma, Beatrice May Fell. She was born in 1899 in Covenham St. Bartholomew in a small two up two down semi near todays Mill House Restaurant. Her family later moved within Covenham to what we ...Read more

A memory of Covenham St Mary

I am going back to the mid '70s here. I have found no reference to the lake anywhere, but it is not related to the Gurney Slade quarries. As a schoolboy, living in Shepton Mallet, I was keen on fishing. I ...Read more

A memory of Bruton by bru.enzer

my grandparents lived in Ham ,& before that Petersham .Many happy days were spent with them on Ham common playing rounders football etc ,the pond fishing for tadpoles, Richmond park the polo fields seeing Jimmy Edwards, having picnics ...Read more

A memory of Ham in 1965 by Ann Ward

I was raisedin Chestnut Avenue withmy two brothers Michael and Edward. I moved away in 1974 having been born in 1958. Everybody in the road knew everybody else and keys were left in the front doors. I attended Princes Road ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1960 by Nicholas Hunt

As I lived in Banstead I had to walk or catch the 80 or 80a to Burgh Heath in order to swim with my school friends from Burgh Heath, Walton on Hill or Lower Kingswood - most of whom attended Picquets Way school. Does ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath in 1946 by Derek Hillman

Hi all, I used to go to a riding school at Keston called Keston Court Riding School. Anybody remember it? I would also go to the ponds sometimes with my family or take the dog for a walk there but it was a bit far for him, I lived in West ...Read more

A memory of Keston by Denise Hyde

I can happily remember the roof garden cafe, it was wonderful with frothy coffee in little glass cups, and we would sit on one of the "island's" that the stepping stones in the picyure led to. I also remember my sister Sue being about 3 or 4 ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1960 by Bob Whitehead

My parents ran the Rising Sun pub in Charlwood where I lived from 1954-64. I often went fishing and sometimes even swimming at the Brickyard pond which at the time was owned by Mr. Dearn, whose son Malcolm I went to school with. ...Read more

A memory of Charlwood in 1958 by Brian Dunn

I remember Platts Farm. My gran lived in a bungalow (a wooden hut really) right at the far end of the field. There was a small pond and a little stream running through it. We went there every shcool holidays and I stayed there all ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1960 by Doreen Malone