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Tring hosts a lovely Christmas shopping evening each year when the High Street is decorated, the shop windows have illuminated Christmas displays and stay open late and the place is ...Read more

A memory of Tring in 2004 by John Howard Norfolk

Where we took Judy to the vets when she cut her stomach open on barbed wire.  She was stitched up and was good as new.

A memory of Harlow in 1958 by Eddie Tait

I remember Grove Cottages and the families who lived in both No 1 & 2 in 1965.  My parents were friendly with the Davies in No 2 and as a teenager I visited No 1 on many occasions along with all our crowd.  The LeNoble family ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham in 1964 by Paula Clements

This shop on the right, was first opened by my Dad's father, Henry Absalom, it was next door to a sweet shop his wife Ethel ran.  Ethel started a little shop from much further down the High Street during the 2nd World War when Henry ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham by Paula Clements

The "Bank" has occupied this site since the late seventeenth century. Although you cannot see from either this view or indeed from the street, there is an exquisite garden and lawn in the centre! The Bank underwent an extensive ...Read more

A memory of London in 1963 by John Howard Norfolk

In the year 1950 (or thereabouts) we lived in Reading Street, a village quite close to Broadstairs. 'Mr. Broadstairs' used to organise events such as sandcastle competitions, races and each week held a contest amongst the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1950 by Dorothy George

I now live in Hornchurch, since 2003, and the High Street looks nothing like this (apart from the pub, the Bull, still the same but is now the Fatlin & Furkin)  picture in 1955.

A memory of Hornchurch in 2007 by Eddie Tait

The large corner "shop" on the left was the showroom of North West Gas where you could pay your gas bill. This is now Dawsons music and instrument shop. The corner shop on the right was Hawkins tailors, on two floors. This is now a MacDonalds restaurant.

A memory of Altrincham in 1960 by Bob Cleary

I  was  brought  up  at  110  High  Street  then  at  the  top of  Backwaterside  Lane.  My  Grandparents  were William  and  Louisa  Barrenger.  My  Mum  Mabel  Barrenger (later  Mabel  Dutton)  was ...Read more

A memory of Brightlingsea in 1960 by Anne Holmes

My sister and her husband Mr. & Mrs. E. Parkinson built a bungalow and shop on the corner of the main street and Pound Road.  They kept it for many years and during that period my Mother and Father moved there and ...Read more

A memory of Hemingford Grey by Roy Newton