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This is a picture of the corner of Chapel Street and George Street showing the old Boots Chemist shop before it was taken over by Hepworths the tailors.  Dewhursts butchers shop was also in the same complex between Chapel Street, the ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Michael Bream

I remember the Co-op butchers at Caddington shown in the picture. Ted Reed was the manager and his son Michael used to work part time there cleaning up. I also recall Courtline Coaches having the contract for school ...Read more

A memory of Caddington by Michael Bream

My grandparents, Daniel" Pentir "Thomas and his wife "Momo", lived not far from Station Road. As you went over the bridge (see photo) towards Gwaun-cae-gurwen, on the left was the "War Memorial", followed by the Rugby Club on the ...Read more

A memory of Upper Brynamman in 1953 by David Lougher

I think the date at 1974 is correct but I would have been 6 then!! We owned all of what is Beechbarrow now and as a young man I had the run of the place! I hope the beech walk is still there, I built my first tree house in ...Read more

A memory of Wells in 1974 by Chris Styles

I lived in Lodge Avenue from 1957 to 1976. It runs off Allum Lane, which was a major road that connected Watling Street to the Railway Station, which opened in 1868. Lord Aldenham, Governor of the Bank of England, lived in Aldenham ...Read more

A memory of Elstree by Hamish Adam

I moved to Aberbeeg with my parents, Ron and Edith Burnett, in1957. We lived there for 5 years. We lived up on the hill across from the church in the Foresters House. Dr. Edwards was our next door neighbour. My years there were relatively ...Read more

A memory of Aberbeeg in 1957 by Pamela Krist

Ty Mawr Farm is situated on the breast of the Betws  Mountain overlooking the village of Gwaun Cae Gurwen.  The well known Welsh actress Sian Phillips was born there in 1933.  In the 1950s and 60s it was occupied by the Campbell ...Read more

A memory of Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen in 1952 by David Lougher

I was born in post-war Corringham into a large family that had been evacuated from the blitzed East End of London. I was christened and married at St. Mary's Church and I lived in Chamberlain Avenue (down the left fork of the road) ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1940

The entrance to Ven House had two phoenix on the gates, I believe we adopted the phoenix to our college badge. We were evacuated from Eastbourne during the Second World War, as a molotove cocktail bomb burnt down the building. We were ...Read more

A memory of Milborne Port in 1944 by Patrick Lee

I was born in 1942 at the then Liston Nursing Home in Marlow. My first memories are of the Dog and Badger in Medmenham, where I lived for six years, with my mother, and my grandparents, John and Lillian Nye. The pub was ...Read more

A memory of Medmenham in 1947