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I remember the Gem. My aunty Silvia lived a few doors down from there .I went to St Lenards School in 1953. We lived with my aunty who lived at 39 Princes Terrace .We then moved to West Parade on the sea front.There was a little shop ...Read more

A memory of Hythe by June Boiling

How lovely to read these memories of childhoods in Gretna. We (the Cains) lived in Douglas Place and then moved to Victory Avenue. That was in the fifties. The circus used to be held in Mackie's field behind us. My mother would collect the ...Read more

A memory of Gretna by Anne Goodman

My Aunt was the Matron in charge of Tickford Abbey and my Uncle was the caretaker in about 1960. I came down from Scotland to spend a long holiday with her when I was 4 or 5. I used to climb up the fire escapes over the roof ...Read more

A memory of Newport Pagnell by Angus Watson

In 1953 I attended, as a boarder, the 'St Mary of the Angels Choir School' in Addlestone. You walked from the station, turned right up the High St and then left up a hill(?). The ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by peter.beschorner

I can remember walking through Enfield Town as a young boy The Town then had shops like Ketts The electrical shop that sold Radios, Portable Reel to Reel taperecorders, Radiograms, and Record players , then left of that was The ...Read more

A memory of Enfield by lyric_21

lovely to read claire keller story.i new her father,grandfather and great grandfather.wonderful family everyone of them.the place they walked to i can tell was grange hill farm it powers down on to eldon ...Read more

A memory of Eldon Lane by bambroseuk

there stood on frimley green road was a sweet shop. two lovely ladies used to serve behind counter.use to love going there after school . the shop however stood there for sometime above the shop the name just barely see The Mons ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by Janet Ingate

QUEEN ELIZABETH GRAMMAR AND DARLINGTON IN THE 40’s and 50’s I was born and lived for 18 years in Pensbury Street. Then Hargreave terrace. And grateful for the 1944 Education Act. Still. ...Read more

A memory of Darlington by Robin Matthews

I used to live in Is y Llyn and I attended Cefneithin School until I was 9 years old. In the school yard under the shelter there used to be a wooden board which we used to run at and we used to pull ourselves to the top of the ...Read more

A memory of Cefneithin by yvonnejames444

He was only a few weeks old when he came to us, my mother had got to know about him and thought he was just the thing I needed to cheer me up. I was fourteen years of age and had not long moved home; my parents had decided to ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear