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My great grandad worked as a gamekeeper on the Tilgate estate. He moved with his family from Suffolk to Crawley in the 1880s. I have many happy memories of visiting my grandparents at Tilgate estate. They lived in the house next to the ...Read more

A memory of Crawley by Shirley Elmokadem

I was born in Tyldesley at 13 High Street - the house is gone now. I emigrated to USA in 1953, married and had 3 children. I went to St Josephs RC School and Sacred Heart Church. We all went to school in Hindsford, Tommy, Norah, ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley in 1930 by Norah Keleher Burke

My Greatgrandmother & Greatgrandfather lived at the Landslip Cottage for many years providing cream teas to visiting locals and tourists alike. My own mother married a Gapper born at the bungalow higher up the cliff. ...Read more

A memory of Rousdon in 1959 by Gwyn Gapper

At the age of 16 I remember picking cherries on the trees (still existing in the photo and just shown to the left of the picture) while being too embarrassed/shy to acknowledge the presence of my first "girlfriend", Valery, on her bike ...Read more

A memory of Prestwood in 1956 by Roy Taylor

For many years in the 1980s and 1990s morris dancers performed outside the two lovely pubs on Croxley Green - the Coach and Horses and the Artichoke. Whitethorn Morris frequently ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1980 by John Howard Norfolk

My first memories of Rosary Priory date from the 1950s when I was a teenager living in nearby Hatch End and I recall some of the rather nice local girls attending the Catholic School there.  However, the decades ...Read more

A memory of Bushey Heath by John Howard Norfolk

Whilst staying with my Grandparents (Weekes) of College Road, I liked to play down the bottom of the road with my friends (I was about 8 years of age at this time) - playing steppy stones in the mud of the river - a very dangerous thing ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1950 by Julia Banks

My brother Ray and myself lived at this address, depicted on the right of the photograph, with our parents, Alec and Doris, known as Dot and Davie. During the war a child from 1, Grove Cottages crawled through ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham in 1944 by Tony Davie

I am now 57 years of age, and live in Australia. I was born in Stone, Stafforshire in 1949 and would love to go back and visit. As a child I remember walking along the canal and standing watching as a blacksmith mended a horse's shoe. ...Read more

A memory of Stone in 1956 by Eileen Page

On the left of this view is the pub sign for the "Railway Hotel" - a popular drinking venue for older members of St Anselm's Youth Club and the Hatch End Young Conservatives!  Next door is a garage forecourt ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1965 by John Howard Norfolk