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My father was born in Great Bedwyn, his name Arthur Maurice Hatter. When I was young in 1952 we were invited to stay with a member of his family in 47 High Street, I remember they had a wonderful garden, layered with full ...Read more

A memory of Great Bedwyn in 1952 by Arthur Hatter

I arrived in Gravesend in 1958 on the back of my boyfriend's motorbike, we had travelled from Colchester in Essex. My father, who was in the army, had been posted to Gravesend so we all had to move. We crossed the ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1958 by Mary Back

The little house next to Mary Newman`s Cottage is where I live now...but I first walked past it with my mother at about the time this photo was taken. We got off the steam train at the station just up the hill, to walk to the ...Read more

A memory of Saltash in 1955 by Steve Fuller

We moved to nearby Kingshurst and the Post Office on the corner of Hurst Lane was the nearest for collecting the much needed Family Allowance. It was a good walk as the buses were not very frequent. When I was newly married 13 ...Read more

A memory of Castle Bromwich in 1956 by Lynda Ridgard

Yes, I lived on the Watchfield housing estate from 1952 to 1953. Large numbers of paras and their equipment were dropped regularly at the airfield. Trainees jumped from large silver barrage balloons, but ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield in 1953 by Geoff King

I think this picture could show Mr Farthing who was a teacher at the Boys School, near the railway bridge. When I was walking to and from the girls' school at the other end of the village I often used to meet him rolling ...Read more

A memory of Twyford in 1953 by Phoebe Newton

On the left hand side of the photograph next to the zebra crossing is Eastwells, a greengrocers and fruiterers. My father Harold Besent who is in the window in a white coat was a partner and also the managing director from 1940 ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1955 by Claire Allen

It was the year of the Coronation and we, the Allans, had a T.V. We were all sitting watching this event when Mother got up and said, "right, one of you go down and tell Annie Laurie that Bill, her son, is on the telly". I said ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie in 1952 by John Allan

My parents are Angela (nee Goulden) and Bryan Wilson (now sadly deceased), both from Bramhall. My paternal Grandfather owned the bakery in the village "Wilsons" which was taken over after my grandfather's retirement by ...Read more

A memory of Bramhall in 1955 by Helen Young

I was born in London, and my family moved to Culberry Cottage in East Pennard when I was about 8yrs or 9yrs old.  That was a short but happy stay in the area amongst the farm lands, animals and walks in the fields picking wild ...Read more

A memory of East Pennard in 1951 by Brenda Carter