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This view was seen by me every day that I went to school at Judd School in Tonbridge. I caught the bus here. There were two bus routes through the village - Number 9 which ran from Maidstone to Sevenoaks and operated by Maidstone ...Read more

A memory of Ightham in 1950 by George Morley

As a trainee aircrew member of the RAF I was posted to Bridgnorth in 1943. I don't recall the exact location of the ITW (Initial training wing), but there we learned radio and morse code procedures, aircraft recognition and gunnery during an ...Read more

A memory of Bridgnorth in 1943 by Neville Robinson

My memories of Great Bedwyn are spending my holidays with my gran and grandad William and Beatrice Alderman in Castle Rd and my uncle Dennis.  My uncle and grandad were both signalmen at Great Bedwyn and I used to go down to take ...Read more

A memory of Great Bedwyn in 1955 by Elizabeth Fletcher

I can clearly remember pushing my doll's pram up to the shops with my mother from our home in South Mossley, Hill Road.  I was always fascinated by the overhead cash delivery system in the Co-op shops.  The very end shop was the ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1955 by Margaret Ralph

I lived in Croydon until 1969 (the year I got married and moved away). My Dad - Len Marsh - was a Cinema Manager with the ABC chain, and we lived very near the Rex Cinema, Norbury, closed in 1962. Dad was based there for a time, but ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Colin Marsh

My mum and dad were married here and I was christened in this lovely old church. My parents were both from old Crawley families.

A memory of Crawley in 1944 by Shirley Elmokadem

I was born in Longton in 1933 at 151 High Street Post Office, Longton. All my childhood was spent there with my grandmother, Sarah Wright and my great aunt Matilda Ward (my grandmother's sister). Between them ...Read more

A memory of Longton by Barbara Johnson

This is a very exciting discovery for me because it is one of the oldest photographs I have seen of a part of old Alcombe that I can recognise, even at my great distance from the UK. My Great-Grandfather, George Mildon had a school at ...Read more

A memory of Alcombe in 1880 by Richard Mildon

does anyone know where this road is??? we think it is an error as we cannot place it any where and research shows nothing on this road!!

A memory of Stowupland by Claire Calver

I started at Berwick Road C of E School in 1957 together with some of the people referred to in the other memories ie: Heather Wallis, Christopher Bennior, Lorraine Staton.  There were others obviously such as Margot ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1957 by Kathleen Green