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In 1946 my parents, grandparents and other members of the family took Spenser House at the corner of Spencer and Constable roads to run as a guest house . the army had been there in wartime. My sister and I went to the Little ...Read more

A memory of Birchington by Penny Jones

My father, Dr. Alexander Brodie Davie, was a GP in the Cranford/Hounslow area from 1938 until his death in 1978. He had a surgery at 723 Bath Road Cranford and then in Hounslow. My mother was a nurse at Hounslow Hospital where she met dad ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Alastair Davie

30 years just passed but it still seems present, the time I spent in Witheridge since 24 December to 1st January when I got back to London and then flied back to Italy. I spent splendid days by a family of friends ...Read more

A memory of Witheridge in 1978 by Guido Caramia

By this point I was ten years old. I rememder going fishing with a net on a pole for sticklebacks just round the back of my house which was in Coging Close, there was a huge area of fields with a stream ...Read more

A memory of Newlands in 1977 by Simon Vamplew

I went to Dark Lane Primary and Junior school from 1976-1982 whilst living on Sandown Road Thundersley. I remember the various ways of getting to school, through the common, the woods, which were brilliant in early spring when the ...Read more

A memory of Thundersley in 1976 by Michael Deeley

This is the place where in the early 1960s I took my mother to visit and stay with her sister Bertha. During our stay my mother and Bertha (there was another sister called Freda, she moved ...Read more

A memory of Misterton by Anthony Spracklen

I would define the center of Sheriff Hill to be the intersection of Southend Terrace, Windy Nook Road, Sodhouse Bank, and Church Road. I was born not 100ft from the intersection on Windy Nook Road. Our cottage ajoined the ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1942 by Robert Hall

I lived in Seaforth Avenue for many years living opposite the Elim Gospel Hall. I worked at Chessington Zoo for a while after leaving Beverley Central School, then worked at Carters Tested Seeds in the small seeds lab dept before joining ...Read more

A memory of Raynes Park in 1949 by Donald Mac Gregor

What a delight to find this site and the photographs of Sutton Coldfield. I too have memories of a children's home but mine were of Watson House. From what I remember it was a big beautiful Tudor-built house, with the biggest in ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield in 1965 by Maria Carey

As a youngster I, along with two other brothers, attended the RED school in West Barnes Lane (infants and juniors) and when old enough, I moved over the sports field to the White School (seniors). My brothers moved on to ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park in 1944 by Neil Mac Gregor