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This is from about the 1950s. Along Grange Road was a huge piggery and it was owned by the Liddle family, by, did it pong. Further along you came to the railway crossing with the sign STOP, LOOK, LISTEN in red, this was where the steam ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

I grew up in Sheriff Hill. My great-gran Margaret Jackson lived on Hewson Street and I lived with my parents in Leeming Gardens in the flats. I used to be sent to the corner shop on Hewson Street. It was called Robbies. We ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1958

It was around 1952 when these tragic accidents happened to to two Millfield families. I remember the day as plain today as it was then. A little boy had fallen into the Dewley Burn and drowned, his mother was Edna Clues who lived at the end ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

I was born at 44 Main Street, better known as Music Row, in 1943 and moved to Kimberley in 1958. I have many fond memories of living there, huge bonfires on the "donkey piece", making "winter warmers" out of a tin with holes ...Read more

A memory of Awsworth in 1943 by Denis Morley

Old forgotten characters of Penge and Eden Park: The Duke of Penge Nell Horley the midwife Winny of the Eden Park Trading Agency The Lad who gave a prize-winning fighter a taste of what ...Read more

A memory of Penge in 1920 by Geoffrey Younger

I lived in Tollers Lane, Old Coulsdon 1946-59 before moving to Coulsdon Rise. Farthing Downs was one of our favourite play spaces. Walking down the rough lane opposite our house to Tollers Farm, on down into Happy Valley ...Read more

A memory of Coulsdon in 1952 by Richard Everest

We moved to No. 6 Tipton Vale in 1950. Maureen a baby, myself (Valerie) and parents Eric and Joan White fom Fenny Bridges. The house was a new council house, pink and blue. Dad dug out a bank at the rear and we found ...Read more

A memory of Tipton St John in 1950 by Valerie Jordan

I feel a bit of a gatecrasher here, as I've been living in Suffolk since 1973!  Basically though, even though I'm a wrinkly/pensioner, I'm a South Suburban Surrey Boy, through and through! Born 1932 in 144 Garendon Road, our postal address ...Read more

A memory of Morden by Bill Mallion

I was born at home, like most babies those days, in Sept 1945 at 8 Hummer Road next door to Mr Heather's wood sawing yard with all the rats that it contained in the stored wood. My grandfather/mother lived in Park Road and he ...Read more

A memory of Egham by Victor Stroud

Tottenham?? Oh boy, I was born in Risley Avenue, lived there till 8 years old then moved to De Quincy Road, Tottenham, this house was genuinely haunted and we had a lot of bad health and experiences when we ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1950 by Fred Wright