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Attended Houghton Road Junior School, then in 1944 the Hill School. Lived 45 Windsor Street. Memories going to school eating breakfast of bread and dripping, transporting a ton of coal from the street to the coal house at ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe by Dennis Flavell

Happy memories indeed. For an eight year old living in the village in the mid 1950s it was heaven. Long summer evenings and school holidays playing in woods, open fields and on building sites. Or cycling (yes at eight) ...Read more

A memory of Earls Barton in 1955 by Peter Dixon

I was born at 1 Mount Pleasant Road, corner of Sandy Lane - the 7th of eight siblings born to Francis George Martin & Rose Emily Long. Unfortunately, I had to leave Little Sandhurst when 5 years old. Fortunately the memories I left with ...Read more

A memory of Sandhurst in 1930 by Philip Long

During the war years Dockenfield Manor was a school which I attended as our home in London was destroyed by bombs. For some reason I seem to remember the school was transferred from the Isle of Wight for the duration of ...Read more

A memory of Dockenfield in 1943 by Brian Mc Haffie

I remember David Lane from Central Drive who was a singer with 'The Mudlarks' Here's some info; They were a family group from Luton, Bedfordshire, originally comprising Jeff Mudd (born 1935), Fred Mudd (1937-2007),[2] and ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by Linda Phillips

It was at Insh carnival where my disabled wife and I and our two month old daughter went, simply to spend a few hours from our home village of Inverurie. There were the usual sorts of entertainments such as pipe bands and the tug ...Read more

A memory of Muirtown in 1990 by Roland Mitchell

As a 16 year old, I was a boarder from Cartagena de Indias, Colombia at Saint Joseph's Convent, 122 Ladbroke Road. With me there were around 25 girls ranging from the ages of 4 to 17 years old and at least from 10 different ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1966 by Maria Victoria Garcia Azuero

A South Londoner, I was 12+ when WWII started in September 1939. I was evacuated with Wandsworth Central School to Farncombe, and remember sitting on the floor in a large hall waiting for someone to 'adopt' me. Eventually, I ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe in 1940 by Ronald Waller

Doris Allen is my aunt who took enormous pleasure in telling me stories of our family life in the very early 1900's. She had a long and interesting life and died peacfully at the ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe in 1910 by John Howard Norfolk

I was born and lived the first ten years of my life in Pottery Street. '2 up 2 down' terraced houses with outside toilet. Across the road lived Horace Murfin, a bookie who could always be seen around on his bike collecting ...Read more

A memory of Rawmarsh in 1953 by Bernard Dudill