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My memory of Withyham are wonderful. My gandad and gran lived in Balls Green and I would go to stay there in the 50's watching the steam trains from the back bedroom. I remember the water pump in the garden, hops at the end of the ...Read more

A memory of Withyham in 1954 by Pauline Stone

I was sent to Bridgnorth at the age of 5 from our home in Birmingham to stay with my aunt and uncle (Doris and Arthur Howse) during 1942 due to the bombing in Birmingham. We lived in St Marys Street, about 100 yards down from High ...Read more

A memory of Bridgnorth in 1942 by Keith Macdonald

I moved to Mitcham Road, Tooting, near Amen Corner and next to St Boniface Church, from Putney at the age of five. The year was 1947. The maisonette we lived in was above a perfume factory, it’s now an Indian restaurant called ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1950 by Kit Wells

I remember the greengrocers, it was called Cunninghams I think. There was always a smell of cooking beetroot coming from the back of the shop. Then there was Wayletts who had a brilliant sweet counter and a very small ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1965 by Kathy Besgrove

I remember mark Raine his dad was in the army Marks dad was either secutary or treasurer of Tindale cresent club he had the land at the back of brantwood terrace it was known as the gap or raineys land there was a pigeon ...Read more

A memory of Tindale Crescent in 1970 by Robin Bailey

I lived in Monkhill as a child. Just a short walk to school, or a quick zoom down the hill from Beaumont on my bike. From the previous description of how the school was in the 50's - it hadn't changed a bit by ...Read more

A memory of Kirkandrews-on-Eden in 1970 by Anita Preece

More memories of Downham Market. When you walk along Church Road from Cannon Square on the right hand side of the road there is an alley way (a walk going down to the high st), it is called 'sounding alley'. The name was ...Read more

A memory of Downham Market by Ray Dent

Happy memories of visiting Wincobank to see my grandparents. They used to live in the back to backs on Newman Rd. My mother lived there until she joined the land army and was posted down to Aylesbury. We used to travel up by train, ...Read more

A memory of Wincobank in 1958 by Janet Knight

I was born in Perivale Maternity Hospital in 1955 and lived in the flats in Dabs Hill Lane, Northolt until I was 3. We then moved to Ferrymead Avenue in Greenford. It was a strange little bungalow on the corner of Eastmead ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Peter Wilkinson

I used to work in East Surry Radio with the barber at the back of us. This was in the mid sixties. Fred Archer (little man with glasses) and Ron Tarrant ( a tall man) were the owners, and we used to have part time ...Read more

A memory of Redhill by Bryan Hall