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I remember Clifton in a different light. We lived at 17 Pastures Avenue during 1966/7, my brother or one of them, he's the youngest, was born there. I met my half sisters and brothers there. I have always liked ...Read more

A memory of Newark-on-Trent in 1967 by Jean Smith

I used to live in Little Waltham when I was eight until 19. We lived in a thatched cottage without electric, and no central heating, only an open fire and kitchen range. The windows used have patterns on them in the winter. In ...Read more

A memory of Little Waltham in 1954 by Pat Kings

I worked as a barmaid in the Fox when Three Bridges had the bad flood and the pub was flooded, it was an old fashioned pub in those days with a public bar and saloon bar with darts on a Friday night, good old fashioned fun.

A memory of Three Bridges in 1968 by Sonja Moffatt

I hope this memory of Normacot is the first of many to be placed by me and then hopefully by others. I was born in 1944 in Lower Spring Road, (opposite Garbetts Toffee Factory), one of a family of 5 ...Read more

A memory of Normacot by Jeff Bromley

There was a knock at the door, and there he was, this tall man wearing a bush hat who grabbed my mom, giving her a great big smacker of a kiss. Of course I wasn't having this strange man doing this to my mom, so I promptly got the ...Read more

A memory of Smethwick in 1945 by Patricia Taylor

I too have happy and sad memories of Thurnscoe. I started school in 1952 at Hill Infants. Mrs Cartlidge was our teacher. I still remember where I sat behind the door and being given a small blackboard and chalk on my first day there. ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe in 1952

My parents were 'in service' to the local 'laird' who was Lord Doune, traditionally the eldest son of the Earl of Moray and owner of lands around Doune. Lord Doune owned the beautiful old mansion on the hill 1.5 miles north of ...Read more

A memory of Doune in 1948 by Alastair Macdonald

The day of my nan's funeral, a goods train from Newbury's brakes failed, and the signalman switched the train to another track, thus averting a major disaster as a passenger train that was nearly full was heading into ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch in 1955 by diana506

I worked in racing stables in Exeter Road. In the spring of 1960 I was injured when a  yearling I was exercising suddenly reared and I 'went out the back door', narrowly missing the edge of the pavement, but hitting my unprotected ...Read more

A memory of Newmarket in 1960 by Eunice Chambers

Funny how seeing Memories of Kingstanding title, it brought back so many thoughts of living there in childhood to my 20s. The Geman plane that dropped its bomb on a house in Hurlingham Road, hiding under stairs at school as the planes ...Read more

A memory of Kingstanding by Norma Bird