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I remember many happy childhood days spent at my grandparents' cottage up the hill towards the railway station. There was a block of four cottages on the right hand side of the road. My grandfather's name was Silas Wren, and he was well ...Read more

A memory of Wareside in 1952 by Fred Wren

I was born in 1938 in London. My parents moved to Burnt Oak when I was 3. The Second World War made a big impression on me. I remember having to sleep in an indoor steel cage. Other times we had to dash over to the air raid ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1955 by Brian Banks

Powerstock was my local village from 1951 to 1963. We lived at Kings House Farm at the foot of Eggardon Hill. My father Eddie Whitaker farmed (the hill rented and his 13 acres) for 12 or so years before ...Read more

A memory of Powerstock in 1951 by Peter Whitaker

I moved to Cowbridge with my parents when I was just 5 years old. My mother was housekeeper and my father was the odd job man. I remember large iron gates to this big house. They kept chickens and ducks and there were ...Read more

A memory of Cowbridge in 1956

Underdown was a magical place, a narrow island of rock left by quarrying at some time in the past. This photo is taken from the western end. At the eastern end there was a copse and the top of the island merged back into the side of ...Read more

A memory of Sampford Peverell in 1956 by Bruce Thomas

Can anybody help with information, memories or photos of a former children's home in Epping New Road, in Buckhurst Hill? I spent part of my childhood in a ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1955 by The Frith Memory Archivist

I remember going to buy vegetables from Mr and Mrs Clitheroe (sp)?. They ran a smallholding in North Street, opposite what used to be the cricket field. They grew their own vegetables and kept chickens and rabbits. In those days ...Read more

A memory of Stilton in 1955

My friends and I loved Rye Lane, it had more shoe shops than Oxford Street. On Saturdays we would meet in Manzes Pie and Mash in Peckham Hill Street, then make our way up one side of Rye Lane, shopping if we could afford to, window ...Read more

A memory of Peckham in 1959 by Jeannette Perry

I was a boy at Burrow Hill School. I remember the head master's name was Mr Tangy, my house was Orchard, I was there for about a year. Some of the boys I remember were, Macmanus, King, Clark and one boy who always wore a ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1950 by Cecil Osman

My grandparents, Daniel" Pentir "Thomas and his wife "Momo", lived not far from Station Road. As you went over the bridge (see photo) towards Gwaun-cae-gurwen, on the left was the "War Memorial", followed by the Rugby Club on ...Read more

A memory of Upper Brynamman in 1953 by David Lougher