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I can remember the square not only for its shops but also as a meeting place . Most of our games back then involved huge amounts of our friends either playing war games or football matches over on the field opposite the ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell by Lance Belsham

The Polish Community in Bradford did not have their own place of worship until they took over a building at Lansdowne Place, 29 St.Edmund Street, Bradford , with a twenty-one year lease. This Church ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by michaelpeterpeyton

My aunt could make a meal from practically nothing, and those war years really put her cooking to the test. No choice of meat in the butchers, if you were at the end of the queue you took pot luck with what was left. One ...Read more

A memory of Pentraeth by trevor.milne

I'm Mandy Coggins and I was born at 7 Peel Road, Kilburn in 1960. It was a beautiful Victorian House and I can remember the marble fireplaces, oak staircase that us kids used to slide down. My nan lived on ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by mandalynca

I was 17 years old and lived at no 7 Tivoli Road, and when Father Christmas arrived at the front door with 4 cwt of coal my mum put newspaper down the hall and throughout the house so that the coal man could dump the coal in the shed. ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey by John Ansell

I was born at Aylesbury Hospital in 1948 and lived briefly at Pitstone, then Tring in Park Road and later Western Road. My Parents, Grandparents and many other relatives lived in the town. I attended Gravelly infant school in Park Road ...Read more

A memory of Tring by richardjandchris

My grandmother lived in a flat in the Eagles building behind Collins the butchers. In the 1951 picture, the girl on the bicycle could easily be me! I would have been 10 then and my coat was a light green with black ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh by Mrs Monica Kitchenside

I also went to Overbury from Wolsey probably in '55. Hanlon was there ( horrible little man - I remember a mass caning in front of the entire school because a toilet was vandalised and he was ...Read more

A memory of New Addington by terryhaynes2002

So many memories of Farnham. Although I was born in Aldershot much of our shopping was done in Farnham. I recall the joys of the Christmas card display in a basement below the stationers that was under the colonnade. My first dancing ...Read more

A memory of Farnham by Bronwen Tickner

I was born in Maidstone 19 Hardy Street. Went to St Paul's School. I started at Northborough School.The house was converted into flats.at the same time my mum had twins.so had to move out .And moved to Milton Street. So went to Westborough ...Read more

A memory of Maidstone by swafflg