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Hi all that served at Barwick School, ive been on this site since 2015 and keep coming back every now and again and its really good to see some old names that i remember from those days . Please make sure you hunt around as i have just ...Read more

A memory of Barwick by stevefriendtks

Hi, my name was Christine Sanderson and I lived in Rydal Ave from1963. Before that on Pembertons Bank. My dad Jack Sanderson, was passionate about the village, and wrote 10 local history books about Easington Lane. He ...Read more

A memory of Easington Lane by wilsoncno4

For about 6 wks prior to joining the navy in 1963, I worked at the Fyffes banana warehouse in Williamson St. (in photo). It paid about 3 quid a week (and all you could eat). Still, a handy easygoing fill-in job for a naive halfwit 15yr old about ...Read more

A memory of Luton

I was born in 1949 and entered Hart Hill School in 1954. Those were the times when 5 year olds were taken to school by their Mums for about one week into the new term! There were so many kiddies in the surrounding area of Abbotswood ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Kay Blythe

I grew up in Aylesbury, Barnsbury Avenue, Hardy Close and 73 Westmoreland Avenue. I really miss those days. I went to Broughton Infant and Broughton Junior School and then the Grange Secondary School. I emigrated to the U.S. ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury by Hazell Grant

During the doodlebug attacks on Dover, my mum was an air raid warden. She had a friend with her and they saw the doodlebug engine cut out and dive to earth. It landed near Pauls Place but did not explode. We went to watch it and ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by Keith Martin

I was born in Taplow in 1957, my parents shared a house (a semi) with my grandparents. They lived downstairs and us obviously upstairs. I attended St Anthony’s Catholic School on the Farnham Rd and at that time they had ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Bob Gough

De Brome now seems such a long time ago , all we have have is memories of how things were. How schools now are, from the former years we enjoyed or did not. I often wondered how all the kids we new then are doing with their ...Read more

A memory of Hanworth by shephardr59