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I knew a Michelle Wheeler of Clockhouse Lane who went to Echelford (spelling?) School 1949 - 1953. I was born in Chattern Road, Ashford in March 1942 and left Ashford Grammar at dead on 15 in 1957. Now a ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1953 by Trevor Langley

Throughout my childhood, my parents would take my brother and I on holiday to stay at The Old Parsonage in East Dean, and we visited so often that it became a second home to us. It was owned at that time, by an elderly and ...Read more

A memory of East Dean in 1950 by Michael Gould

There was a huge house with 5 acres of land, about 1/4 mile up Itchel Lane, on the left hand side as one walked up. The house had a 'wendy house' that looked down the road and was just visible through the hedge up the ...Read more

A memory of Crondall in 1957 by Patricia Huddart

What a joy to read all the memories. I lived in the terrace houses down the side of the Welfare, leaving when I was 12 to live in the new Coal Board estate. All my childhood was spent playing down Green Lane on the pit stacks, ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1950 by Susie Williams

The old Miners Hall was my local library, I spent many happy hours in there not only browsing the bookshelves but talking to some of the old retired miners that met there most days. My Great Uncle was Alf Palfreman who was a ...Read more

A memory of Ogmore Vale in 1950 by Patricia Morris

I first came to Whitstable by steam train in 1952 with my mother and grandparents, and we stayed in a boarding house in Cromwell Road, I think. After that we came to Whitstable every year for two weeks in September, ...Read more

A memory of Whitstable in 1954 by Allan Crawley

If I remember correctly, a white climbing rose grew up one side of the arch and a red on the other. The path continued straight through the archway, and led up the garden to the two wooden sheds at the top of the ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

I was in Larch dorm, the team house was Arendal. At that time we had a wonderful teacher called Miss Alllen, I think she married the teacher at the time who looked after the young farmer, I think his name ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1956

I was born at 39 Cecil Street and lived there with my mother Jeannie, my granda Billy, and my brother Billy who was 11 months older than me. My granda had a horse and cart, and was a hawker. I can remember the prefabs, ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge in 1951 by Betty Young

I was born in Horden in 1946 (Elizabeth Lumley) and my father (George Lumley) (and his father before him) ran Lumley's grocery store which was on the bank top (21 Beech Terrace - now a house but the United bus stop is still callled ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1950