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The Cherry Tree was my main watering hole as I had so many friends in the area. Stan Chrees from Oakleigh Road, Bernard Downes, Edwin Hodson, to name but a few. Oh the days before mindless fruit machines, when pubs ...Read more

A memory of Southgate in 1963 by Roger Davis

I have many very happy memories of playing in Sears Park as a child, collecting conkers from underneath the trees with my sister and Nan or later by myself. We often used to cut through from Cheam Road and walk along the ...Read more

A memory of Cheam in 1965 by Brandon Willoughby

The bottom of Silver Street on the other side of the bridge ended at the river with some railings over a drainage outlet.  This was a good place for children to get into the river from the middle of the village and paddle upstream ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1962

Does anyone remember the mobile library that was parked near the parade of shops? I think there is a house on the land where it used to park. I have memories of hanging my beret up on my named peg; my double-breasted dark blue rain ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1965 by First Name Last Name

The Rivera!! Once a week after school in 1964- 65, a group of us (mostly 6th-formers from the Grammar School, which was co-ed by that time) used to gather upstairs in the Rivera Restaurant (on the right ...Read more

A memory of St Austell in 1964 by Elke Langmaid Love

My name is now Marie Moore but my maiden name was Jeeves. Memories of Cayton Bay 1960s to 70s will stay with me forever, my nannan, mam and her 2 sisters all had their own caravans on Wallis's Holiday Camp, our caravan number ...Read more

A memory of Cayton Bay in 1963 by Marie Moore

I purchased my first house at 28 Chapel Lane with my late wife. This lane led down to the Salvation Army Farm where an annual event of motor cycle scrambling took place. The lane was quiet apart from ...Read more

A memory of Hadleigh in 1963 by Reg Hooper

Born Irby 1955. Lived in Woodlands Road. Emigrated to Australia in 1967. Memories are still vivid of Irby, sledging on Sutton Hill, exploring Dawpool common, walking the pathways between villages and through the woods, down to the ...Read more

A memory of Irby in 1960 by Alan Sharp

I was adopted with my 3 sisters by a RAF couple who was stationed in Hong Kong. Our parent came back to the UK in 1957. My father was stationed at Compton Bassett in 1960 for 2 years. Our story of the ...Read more

A memory of Compton Bassett in 1960 by Diana Hayes

I moved from London into 64 Leaf Road on 1st January 1961. We were offered the house because housing was very short in Southwalk, where we lived with my mum and dad. When we got there it was freezing, the roads were laid but there ...Read more

A memory of Houghton Regis in 1961 by Ann Craney