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My earliest memory of Totternhoe was when we moved to the village from Dunstable after my grandfather died. We came to live at 35 Church Road next door to my father's cousin Winifred Heley who was the postmistress at ...Read more

A memory of Totternhoe in 1951 by Adrian Siret

Around 1961 - at the age of seven, I started to attend Eaton House School at 3-5 Eaton Gate. The houses are on the left hand side of the photo - and can be identified by the large white porches [The ...Read more

A memory of Victoria Sta in 1961

So sorry, I do not have any photos of Collyhurst, I went to school there but actually lived in Miles Platting, The Ram on Oldhan Road. My school memories of Collyhurst are of St. James Primary School, the most special of ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by Janet Ellam

Does anyone remember Micheal Hall, born approx 1957? In the 1970s he lived in Featherstone and attended a Catering College course at the Astoria Ballroom in Leeds, where he was a good friend of my brother-in-law Pete. In 1978 he was ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1978 by Sue Scott

Since I can remember, the Brig always had a football team and I just loved to watch them as a boy, harbouring dreams that some day I might be good enough to play with them. Davie and Rab Hall ran the side and come ...Read more

A memory of Linlithgow Bridge in 1968 by Sandy Paterson

I remember so many people from Abertysswg that it was great to find this website and know there are people writing about the village I shall always think of as ' home '. Had fate been kinder to me I most probably would never have left ...Read more

A memory of Abertysswg by Linda Shapiro

I was born in Harborough Magna in 1943 at Rose Cottage, Main Street. I lived there with my mother and grandparents during the 1940s and early 1950s. When I was 4 years old I went to the village school which had a ...Read more

A memory of Harborough Magna in 1943 by Roger Childs

I was a motor vehicle apprentice with W&C French Ltd fromm 1958 to 1964 at North Farm Loughton which is now a private housing estate.The fleet was mainly Ford but I did work on heavy vehicles such as Foden, Scammel & AEC ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1960 by David Rowe

Hello, my name is Chris Hay and my nan was Irene Rooke ( the Rookes that lived opposite the Red Lion PH). I can remember spending time with my mum's aunty, nan's sister Hilda Goose (Rooke) at the time she lived up in Wood ...Read more

A memory of Swanley Village by Chris Hay

My wife and I had a new house built in Ferndale just off the Hulbert Road in 1959. Detached semi bungalow with three bedrooms and a garden backing on to Inhurst Woods and all for £3500. My goodness, how different for the ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1959 by David Britton