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First Day of School Arriving at Egham Hythe Infants School, aged 5, and being placed in the care of Mrs. Spenser. There I remained for one entire term. Most of the faces in the classroom were new. Some of the names heard for the ...Read more

A memory of Egham in 1954 by Keith O'brien

Fond memories of Parham makes me write this, remembering the peacefulness. Surfing the Web, here I  am posting a question all the way from he USA. It was early summer 1954 and I was a Dutch farm exchange student ...Read more

A memory of Parham in 1954 by mntnbouv1

I lived at Church Farm, Longparish in the late fifties & early sixties. The farm was then a working farm and my father was dairyman. I went to the primary school just after it was rebuilt, the teachers were Miss Munday & Miss ...Read more

A memory of Longparish in 1957 by Robert Bolt

My Grandparents ran the post office in Haslington for many years (not sure how many exactly). Their names were Harry and Connie Jones, they built the business up from nothing and delivered newspapers, ran the post ...Read more

A memory of Haslington in 1958 by Elizabeth Astbury

I have very fond memories of Great Haywood during the 50s as my sister and I went to stay with our grandmother during the school holidays. We lived near to the centre of Manchester and so to visit this village in the ...Read more

A memory of Great Haywood in 1956 by Anne Forster

This picture was taken further down the High Road from the Century Cinema and the Post Office, going towards the war memorial, and in these modern blocks there were several shops I regularly visited, including a hairdresser's.

A memory of Loughton in 1956 by Diana Dioszeghy

National Service As a 71-year old now living in Macau (China) I still retain the warmest memories of Bexhill in the 1950s. At that time I was a National Serviceman stationed at RAF Wartling (Upper Barnhorn) and courting a local ...Read more

A memory of Bexhill in 1956 by Peter Westwood

We used to always walk to school Fawbert and Barnard a few yards up next to police station  in the summer and walk home.Behind the bus stop was the post office.I was 8 when this picture was taken.

A memory of Harlow in 1953 by Eddie Tait

When I was about 11 or 12 in the 50's I used to ride from Bookham over to Ranmore quite often.  I would take a packed lunch in a rucksack and off I would go for the day all on my own.  When I got to Ranmore, I used to ...Read more

A memory of Ranmore Common in 1958 by Paula Clements

My early memories of Woodford, were being taken by bus, from Byfield Primary School, to the Moravian church, in Parsons Street, for the polio injection, also of going to the cinema, which was opposite the Post Office, to see the ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Halse in 1959 by Neville Eyles