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Our school, Park Modern Secondary, was situated in Barking Essex just outside of the east end of London. Each year, we had school camp at Sweets farm on the top of Dundry Hill, where we would camp for two weeks. We were told repeatedly by ...Read more

A memory of Dundry in 1963 by Christopher Bowers

I have the fondest memories of Caister on Sea. We used to have a week there every year and my sister and I were the only kids in our street that had a holiday every year. Like most people in the East End of London, ...Read more

A memory of Caister-on-Sea in 1955 by Christopher Bowers

Living in Longparish for 27 years from 1979 is etched deep in my memories notably because it was during the formative years of bringing up a family. Having renovated White Windows, a mid 19th century house near the ...Read more

A memory of Longparish in 1979 by Barry Sterndale Bennett

I was a pupil at Stubbington House from 1953 ‘till 1958 and my step-father, too, was in the Navy. It’s extraordinary to read the memories of those whose names are now starting to come back to me, particularly Fogarty ...Read more

A memory of Stubbington in 1954 by Keith Maunder

I lived in a sweetshop come cafe on Top Dartford Road junction with Plantation Road the dustmen the funeral men and the local policeman Paddy Mccreary all came to our cafe they were a great crowd of men. Before that we bought a ...Read more

A memory of Hextable in 1958 by Jackie Payne

I moved to East Ham as a nipper in 1943 and lived in Bartle Avenue. During the war I contracted diphtheria and spent eight weeks in an isolation hospital somewhere in Woodford. During that time a V2 rocket dropped in the area ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by Stephen Hoskins

Yes Valerie - I too have a similar memory of the day I walked home from Cheshunt Secondary School on my last ever day. The sun was always high over Grundy Park during the summer months, and shone down directly onto your neck and head as you ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt by Russ Boys

Mr Popeley died a few years ago. He opened his shop right till the end and he had everything. If you made a request he would say I will just go to another department which was one of his caravans on the site. He ...Read more

A memory of Wisbech St Mary by Lucy Betts

Was the Holloway Sanatorium once known as Zachary Murton Home, or was this another establishment?

A memory of Virginia Water

I have fond memories of Shoalstone Pool. Both my sister and I learnt to swim in this pool. i can remember a swimming gala, about the time of the photo, we had to walk around the pool and up and over the diving board, which i was ...Read more

A memory of Brixham in 1957