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My name George Conquest, I lived at 12a King Street before it was rebuilt. I used to play in Mary Stephens Park, and the swan pool, the 'rec', and the sand pit at the top of King Street where C&V coaches were based. I went ...Read more

A memory of Wollaston in 1951 by George Conquest

I came to live in the town when I was awarded an Engineering Cadetship to train for a technical commision in the Armed Forces. About 70 of us were based at The Technical College. I and another Cadet were billeted first in ...Read more

A memory of Wakefield in 1943 by James Dowd

My friends and I loved Rye Lane, it had more shoe shops than Oxford Street. On Saturdays we would meet in Manzes Pie and Mash in Peckham Hill Street, then make our way up one side of Rye Lane, shopping if we could afford to, window ...Read more

A memory of Peckham in 1959 by Jeannette Perry

My family lived on the Market Square for many years from 1946. I have many happy memories of Higham and looking at the photos on this site bring them flooding back. My sister, brother and I started at the local ...Read more

A memory of Higham Ferrers in 1950 by Susan Barnes

The fair arrived annually in June and was eagerly awaited. It was split between three sites in the town. The Market Square, then an open space with stalls only on market day, had as its main attraction what was variously known as a Noah's Ark ...Read more

A memory of Thorne by Brian Bristow

The Town Library was located across the road from Burgess' news agent/bookstore, the source of my Tiger and Eagle weekly comics - as a young library member I plowed my way along the Biggles Air Ace library shelves, and ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1952 by Edward Williams

I was 8 years old when I arrived in Blandford. It was lunchtime on a Sunday a week before the Somerset and Dorset Railway closed on the 6th March 1966. My dad was in the Royal Signals and he was being posted to the 30th ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp in 1966 by Raymond Parlett

I was born in Fleetwood in1939 and lived in Adelaide Street; opposite the market at no 19. I remember Tommy Butler (daft Tommy) digging great holes on Ferry beach. I used to help Frank Brown (market superintendant) to set ...Read more

A memory of Fleetwood in 1940 by Frederick Porter

Reading Alan Gray's memories was a delight! My Mom, Edith Evans, ran Guides at HSM in 1958/9..... and only today were talking about her lieutenant, Mavis Long.... we used to call her Lefty! I remember Jean Jennings and June ...Read more

A memory of Holbeach St Marks in 1958 by Jackie Dunsford

I lived with my grandparents in Mark Street until I was 7. I had a friend called Thomas Ayre. I often dream about the streets and people. I visited it yesterday May 3rd and nothing remained but factorys and rubbish. The town ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1944 by Ann Wyatt