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My father was stationed at Alcombury and we were lucky to live with the Hunt family in a manor house. Mr. Hunt worked at the school. I went to school in Bedford as a weekly boarder. The Hunts' daughter was my friend and we ...Read more

A memory of Kimbolton in 1955 by Patricia Darcy

I was only a few months old when our family moved to 122 Marsala Road, Ladywell in 1949. I was ten years of age when we moved from Ladywell to Dartford in August 1959 but there are many different and varied ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1958 by Tony Brown

i was brought up on big Cullamores Farm in the 50>s and 60<s , which borders the downs banks. I have many happy memories of roaming the Downs with school friends, it was our play ground. I am at the moment researching the farm and ...Read more

A memory of Oulton Heath in 1959 by Pat Mason

Great memories of my years as a student at Reading University in the 1950's. At that time there was only one campus, and on entering through the covered London Road entrance (on the left of the photo) the ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1954 by Milton Freeman

I came here from Austria with my sister to work as au-pair girls in this boarding school. We found an ad in a German newspaper for girls to help with domestic chores etc. My sister and I wrote to the Mother ...Read more

A memory of Denford Park (Training Coll) in 1959 by Annie Moore

I went to Whitchurch Grammar School as a boarder and we went to church every Sunday in crocodile fashion. We all put one penny in the collection! On Saturdays we went to Woolworths, the best shop -and bought licorice comfits for ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch in 1956 by James Cracknell

I read the last three comments on the BBC Wales website about the orphanage at Bryn Mair which was run by the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy. And my heart bleeds for the innocent kiddies who were abused by those ...Read more

A memory of Pantasaph in 1953

I remember going to Sunday School at the Methodist Church in Oad Street back in the 1950s. My brother and I had to walk all the way from Munsgore Farm where George Whitehead had his dairy. Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Borden in 1956 by Ivan Mail

I attended Zeals C of E Primary school between 1958 and 1963. We actually lived over the border in Bourton (next to the White Lion pub) but the school was nearer than Bourton school. "Pop" Winter and his wife were the full time ...Read more

A memory of Zeals in 1958 by Simon Palmer

Unfortunately the FCJ convent doesn't exist any more but my memory goes back to those happy years from 1959 till 1964 as a little girl studying as a boarder and always waiting for my late ...Read more

A memory of Kingsgate in 1959