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Friends of our family once lived in Railway Cottages, Bexhill Road and in those days when you were young and your families were friends you tended to call the adult members 'uncle' and 'aunt'. Their real names were ...Read more

A memory of St Leonards in 1958 by Colin Apps

My paternal grandparents lived in Schoolhouse Cottages off Lee Street where we occasionally stayed on holidays, Christmas etc. There was an alleyway called "Pawnshop Passage", emerging onto Mercer Row by the bow window in the ...Read more

A memory of Louth in 1950 by Nigel Gladwin

Looking straight forward, the house to the left of the white one was the home of the Smith family who had several children. My grandmother used to pass on any goodies she had to them. Her name was Mrs Maud Ashton and she lived in ...Read more

A memory of High Lane in 1950 by Pat Ayres Nee Ashton

I used to be Vanda Shucksmith and I have very fond memories of Swallow, having moved there when I was five years old, we lived down Chapel Lane in one of Mr Bingham's farmworkers cottages. I had actually started school at Dunham on the ...Read more

A memory of Swallow in 1951 by Vanda Miller

My memories of Ombersley, Worcs, are from when I was 8-9 years of age, walking to Ombersley school with my sister Dot, holding hands, rain or shine, from Westwood House, four miles and back again after school, past snake ...Read more

A memory of Ombersley in 1954 by Robert Malin

My grandparents lived in the house nextdoor to the Turks Head from c1952 to c1961. The house was called Woodbine House in those days and all the windows faced the street. The garden was across the street ...Read more

A memory of Loddiswell in 1957 by Gabrielle Churchill

The MORLEY family of nine who squeezed into a new house in Rosewood Ave, Elm Park 1950s - 1980s, did a 'down memory lane' trip 28 July 2011 (Romford Recorder), brilliant to go back to your roots. Some shops literally have not ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1950 by Gillian Morley

I was born in that White Cottage that once stood at the top of Moreton Road and have many happy memories of it and old Upton Village. In the days before the Catholic Church was built, Gemmels Wood used to stretch from Moreton Road ...Read more

A memory of Upton in 1955 by Harry Hardy

I remember the village hall at Merrow. I would have been seven; we lived in Merrow St, No.1 Alma Cottages opposite Great Goodwin Farm from 1945 to 1956. Dad used to take us, my two brothers and sister to the hall on Sundays where we had ...Read more

A memory of Merrow in 1952 by Frank Ayling

My brother Patrick Marriott will be 80 years old on 12/7/2013. I think his favourite place in the world is St. Stephen - he spent a lot of his boyhood days staying at our aunts cottage and even attended school there. My aunt and ...Read more

A memory of St Stephen in 1950 by Ann Bowskill