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I was born at the Bearstead Memorial Hospital in 1946 and lived on Hurstfield Road for my first 5 years, then moved to Weston Avenue. That house backed on to Hurst Park racecourse and I used to love to look over the fence to ...Read more

A memory of West Molesey in 1950 by Alison Collin

The premises are not actually the town hall but actually the council house of Heston and Isleworth borough council. Note from the editor: On the British Listed Buildings website it says 'Former Town Hall. Built as the ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1950 by Ann Law

I just stumbled over this site. I was 10 years old when we left Heston to emigrate to Australia. My mother was a hair stylist in The Crossways Shops (# 136) and I remember my first day of school at Springwell Infants. I ...Read more

A memory of Heston in 1950 by Geoff Ballard

My Grandparents lived in Crickham, they were George and Lily Evans and they lived in one of the little houses next to a white church. I remember if you went down a long hill there was a Post Office and the other road led to a ...Read more

A memory of Crickham in 1958 by Sheila Clubb

My uncle, Lewis Clarke and aunty Gert, the butchers, had 4 children, my cousins. Gillian at the time was single and had a friend called Mac who was a pilot at Manby and when he flew over the village he ...Read more

A memory of North Somercotes in 1953 by Stewart Mc Caw

My uncle, Stanley Lee, owned the row of cottages called "Folly Row", and he let us rent the first in the row, number 19. This was our first married home and we were very thrilled to have a house to ourselves, as many of ...Read more

A memory of Kington St Michael in 1950 by Joyce Holmes

When I was 8 and my brother 10, we went to live in Bawdrip for a short while with my dad who was working there at the time. He took us to stay with an elderly couple, Mr and Milliner, where he was lodging and they looked after us ...Read more

A memory of Bawdrip in 1958 by Catherine Murray

One of my early memories growing up in Walker was of sitting on the step to the back yard in my grans lane and seeing a group of people all dressed up in their Sunday best. One of the women was carrying the most ...Read more

A memory of Felling in 1950 by D Olly

Hello. My father was Harold John (bob) Mann. He worked as an Air Traffic Controller in the Control Tower, in what was then Heston Airport ('Aerodrome'?). We lived at Heston, in Durham Avenue. We ...Read more

A memory of Heathrow Airport London in 1951 by Rosemarie Mann