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My name is George Reese---and I am in the US. My relatives came mainly from Glamorgan, but a few from England. About 20 years ago, I started to research my family roots. My mother gave me a small Bible, ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash in 2008 by George Reese

I cant quite make out where this picture was taken from but it is earlier than 1960. I first went to `BRANDS`in 1956 with my Dad & brother but went on a regular basis with friends from `57 onward.Safety measures were ...Read more

A memory of Brands Hatch Circuit in 1957 by Tony Arkell

I was born in William Street. I can’t remember the number but do remember the chap next door was called Charlie Peason - he had two girls a bit older than me. Out the back of the house there was a little chapel and up the road ...Read more

A memory of Auckland Park in 1947 by Barry Fawcett

I was brought up in Sir Oswald Stoll Mansions where disabled soldiers were sent to live; there was a clinic there for their wounds to be dressed. We were the Maxwell family. There was a group of children we all ...Read more

A memory of Fulham in 1953 by Irene Carroll

I was born at The Four Lane Ends but really the only thing which I remember about that is the day we moved to South Market Street. Since then (about '46) I have always been proud to refer to myself as being amongst the ...Read more

A memory of Hetton-Le-Hole in 1950 by Keith Fisher

I had the great misfortune to attend St Josephs Primary Roman Catholic School, Stanford-Le-Hope in the early to mid 1950s. The nuns there were far too fond of wielding bamboo canes split halfway down the middle ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1953 by Peter Clamp

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

St. Andrews Church figured quite prominently in my early teens as it was my parish Church. Although not a religous person, I had to go the Church at least once a month as I belonged to 6th Uxbridge Scouts who were a Church Group, and ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Bill Crowther

My name was Jeannette Turner. In about 1936 my mother father and self-age 3 moved from the Eastend of London, via first moving into 46, Hillingdon Road Barnhurst, to stay with my recently widowed Auntie Daisy. My ...Read more

A memory of Dartford

Although I moved from Prestbury to Gloucester in 1966 when I got married, then to Somerset in 1967. Prestbury has always held a special place in my heart, I always call it my home. I lived in a small cottage in ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury by Pat Procter