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We moved to 161 Aurelia Road from 6 Brampton Road, Addiscombe, I lived there for 24 years with my mother and father Margaret and Harry Spencer. My father was a plumbing and heating engineer and taught plumbing at Vauxhall College. ...Read more

A memory of Upper Norwood by Glennis Spencer

I lived in Ham Close prefabs, I moved to Ham from Richmond when I was 6yrs old and went to The Orchard School. I used to go through the hedge to watch polo - Prince Philip used to play there a lot then. The polo club was right next to the ...Read more

A memory of Ham in 1957 by Gillian Lloyd

Not so much a memory, more an ancestral bond. My great great grandfather, Edward Jones, was born in Nannerch in or about 1803. A long time ago!I don't know how long he remained there but I do know he moved to Anglesey for a ...Read more

A memory of Nannerch by Michael Jones

Saturday mornings was when my mother and I would join the family next door for our day out, down to the Tarpots Corner and a bus into Wescliff by the playing fields and then a dancing lesson at Mimi Greens School of Dancing ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1946 by Colin Mackenzie

My sisters Rita, Susan and me all attended Ightham Primary School, the headmaster was Mr Foster, he travelled every day from Maidstone by car, Mrs Kath Gordon, Miss Tomkins being the other teachers, Mrs Hussey replacing Miss Tomkins ...Read more

A memory of Ightham by Janet Le Saux

My 2 x great-grandfather, Thomas Crump, was born in 1799. He married Susannah Bond in 1822 and lived...??? at Mill Cottage. He became Farm Bailiff on the Quicke Estate, responsible for the letting of farms. His son, Matthew ...Read more

A memory of Newton St Cyres by Angela Haddrill

My mother gave life to me in Paignton hospital (now a hospice I believe) in July of this year (1947) and I spent much of my early years in and around this lovely little town. Not so lovely or little now but still grand ...Read more

A memory of Paignton in 1947 by Peter Chave

It was with great warmth that I read the memory about the O'Dells at the Cross Keys Pub. I too spent some great times with young Cliff at the family garage and at the X Keys. My mother also worked for many years with Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham

Although I was actually born in Holbeach Bank, and spent the first 3 1/2 years of my life in Holbeach St Matthews, I spent my childhood in Holbeach St Marks. My mother and father Ray and Greta Gray, ...Read more

A memory of Holbeach St Marks in 1955 by Alan Gray

Hi, we used to play at Ravenscraig every day as well, down the sands, the dungeons used to scare me when we looked through the slit windows, but when we got older and braver, and ventured down the in the dark (there was always a ...Read more

A memory of Kirkcaldy in 1940 by Jim Cook