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This address was a large terraced home which once belonged to my paternal grandmother.she rented rooms out (after my grandad had passed away) I remember it from visits there when my aunt betty and family lived there. The attic or ...Read more

A memory of Hackney by Zoe Cowell

Yes I remember the V2 rocket that came down in Moreland Ave.I had just returned from the air raid shelter when the siren went again, we did not have time to go to the shelter again.I was in bed and when I pulled the bed covers back the room ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by johnrank

My grandfather (Frederick William Steward) was a gamekeeper and lived with his wife ( Florence )and there 6 children in a single story cottage,it was deep in the woods, we always went for a weeks holiday there,my father always had a taxi ...Read more

A memory of Frenze by janetmains

my name is gerry roberts and i too have very fond memories of padstow.what i would call happy days.the ferry across to rock and trevose lighthouse.there was a young girl called margaret anderson who lived in netherton road.last i ...Read more

A memory of Padstow by gerryroberts31

I was born at 30,Cherry Tree Ave , in 1940 ,being a war baby we grew up hearing the sirens ,my mother would pull down the Blackouts ( like a roller blind but covered in a thick black material) then many children would come to our ...Read more

A memory of Staines by Janet Mains

My name is Lindsey Lewis (nee Overend). I was born in Horsforth 1971 and my parents,along with my two sisters, moved to Clarke Street in Calverley from Bramley when I was two weeks old. We were the first occupants of number 21 on the ...Read more

A memory of Calverley by Lindsey Lewis

I went to the sacred heart Barnes when l was 12 and stayed their until lead fifteen. The nuns were Very good to me,has they took me on a boat from Richmond bridge to Windsor castle for the day, their was ...Read more

A memory of Barnes

More teachers from Flaxley Road Primary School. I started school on my fifth birthday in 1950. When it was your birthday you were allowed to play some tubular bells in assembly, first thing in the morning. I didn't dare admit ...Read more

A memory of Selby by margaret.raine

My Grandparents, Charlie and Frances Hawkins used to live at 1 Whites Hill in Tilmanstone, in the 60s and 70s. Back then it was a little white wooden house,a two up two down, with up and down wooden floors with a ...Read more

A memory of Tilmanstone by wendyhawkins1961

Birkenhead in the 1950s – it bears no resemblance to how it is today – it doesn't even look the same. Most of the places I remember are gone. The streets where I grew up have gone – the geography of the place has changed – I ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by mcgraa