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I lived in Stadhampton from 1949 - 1952. When I was eight years old living in Rutland my parents split up leaving my Dad with three small boys rather suddenly. As was often the case in those days I was shipped out and came to ...Read more

A memory of Stadhampton in 1949 by Tim Elliott

I lodged at eight Parkfield Road with my father who worked at Perivale during & after the war. I was an apprentice at F J Creamer at Stanmore. The house was owned by Mr & Mrs Wade who had an adopted son called Fred, who was an ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1945 by Richard M Howard

I was first taken to the IOW at nine months old in 1946, we stayed in Alfred Road, Lake, with Auntie & Uncle Gerring, (no relation), we continued to holiday there for 18 years. Mum & dad booked a beach hut at Lake Beach from ...Read more

A memory of Lake by Margaret Clowes

When I was 18, I lived with my relatives on the outskirts oif Reading. I was offered a job working as a builders labourer. The year was 1963 and I was given a lift most days to work, which was at Upper and Lower Culham ...Read more

A memory of Culham in 1963 by Ken Elsley

I grew up at Alum Bay, as my parents, John & Irene Groves were managers at the Needles Hotel from 1948 - 1954. My brother Neil is 2 years older than me and we have some wonderful memories of playing in the grounds, which ...Read more

A memory of Alum Bay in 1951

I remember the Village Hall "Olde Tyme" dances held once a month on a Saturday night. At seventeen you might think these would be too sedate for a teenager, but with my Dad's old suit borrowed on the way out, and ...Read more

A memory of Merstham in 1953 by Tony Tester

I lived in Durnsford Road. My father had two shops a Florist and a Greengrocers both with the name "Bloom's". With my mates, we hung around the Woodman Pub, while our dad's enjoyed their pint, I remember they had a nice garden at ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1950 by Leslie Banks

I well remember having to make my first telephone call from the telephone box here at the age of eight. I was staying with my grandparents Leonard and Clara Pryke at No 3 Crowcroft Road, when my grandmother fell and sustained a bad ...Read more

A memory of Nedging Tye in 1956 by Trevor Gibbons

Just outside Windsor is a place called St, Leonard's Hill where beyond there was a massive pig farm. Wall's Pork Sausages bought all the pigs. It was owned and run by a man called Lovejoy. I worked there when I was twenty years old, ...Read more

A memory of Old Windsor in 1969 by Roland Mitchell

My late father Donald Jack Baker was born at Cowes on the 18/8/1910, he would later become my father in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe) on the 20/6/1940. Through no fault of our father we children grew up in homes and ...Read more

A memory of Cowes in 1940 by Judith Petrou Nee Baker