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I was posted to the RAF radar unit in Hawthorne from 1954-1955 and had some of the happiest memories of my service in Easington Colliery. We attended most of the dances in the Welfare Hall after having coffee in ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1955 by Bill Heslington

I think I might have been here in the 1950s, I was sent here after I left hospital with pneumonia and brochitis. I was sent there for 6 weeks. I remember they made you drink hot milk, yuk. My parents never came to visit, I think ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1955 by Babs Coker

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

I lived with my brothers at no 8 Malta Road in 1959 then we moved down to 31 Dettingen Road and lived there till my dad was posted to Berlin in 1963. My brother Paul and I went to the Junior School at the bottom of the road, ...Read more

A memory of Deepcut in 1959 by Christine George

My name is Rosie Pearce and I live in Tintagel, North Cornwall. These are just a few of my many childhood memories of Milverton. I lived in Reading with my father and grandmother after my mum died in ...Read more

A memory of Milverton in 1954 by Rosie Pearce

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 memories of Whatton relate to my Army Service at 53. Company, Royal Army Service Corps, situated on the A.52 road half way between Nottingham and Grantham and not far from Bingham. I was stationed there from October ...Read more

A memory of Whatton-in-the-Vale in 1954 by Royden Jones

I lived in Ferryside for a year in 1956/7. I made some lovely friends, but there was one special friend, her name was Moreen Marks, she lived with her parents at the bottom of the road that runs past the church. Her sister ...Read more

A memory of Ferryside in 1956 by Audrey Mac Donald

I am not sure of the year, somewhere between 1952 and 1960. Head Forester: Mr Frank Watson. Forester: Mr Ian Falconer Builders: Mr Jones and Chips Cooper. There were probably more men involved, but both the men named were ...Read more

A memory of Symonds Yat in 1952 by Brian Kear

In 1955 I was 9 years old and lived at No. 16 Putney Hill, which was on the right in this picture and if memory serves was the house before the white one behind the tree. My grandfather owned the tobacconist and ...Read more

A memory of Putney in 1955 by Rod Chunn