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At Royston Senior school, I was a young lad of 14 and although the lads did not know it, I was quite strong and could do a man's job such as lifting heavy sacks of grain and humping bails of hay. Although I was a quiet lad ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1963 by Roland Mitchell

My fathers parents, Edward and Winifred Simmons, ran the general stores in the Parade at Otford in the 1950s and early 1960s. My mother, her sister and parents, Grace and Alfred Maddock, lived in Bubblestone ...Read more

A memory of Shoreham in 1960 by Anne Helen Roberts

I lived in Gamesley for a very short while, but it's an episode of my life that I will never forget. I used to live at 10 Callow Close, it was late autumn of 1968. So much was going on then, the moon landing was yet to ...Read more

A memory of Gamesley in 1969 by Howard Davies

I remember spending part of school summer holidays here as my grandparents lived in the village, they were Robert John King and Florence Emma King, nee Stanton. I used to go across to the shop from their cottage on Main ...Read more

A memory of Maids' Moreton in 1966 by Margaret Holbrook

The Granada on the left and down the road, the new cop shop. On the right would have been Herschels house, demolished of course!

A memory of Slough in 1960 by Dave Hill

I remember when I was about ten or eleven, we used to camp out in the back field behind the flats in Rockford Avenue, four or five of us in a two-man tent. After a rough nights sleep we would get up early in the morning ...Read more

A memory of Kirkby in 1960 by Tim Dwyer

Born in 1947, I grew up on Babington Road, Streatham. I remember the Home Guard a few houses up and Robin Hanson and I would play on the search lights left over from the war when we were four or five. ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1960 by Paul Chandler

I was standing next to Joe, beside the plaza, looking down as the roofs came off Blaydon. The man had a tear in his eye, I'll never forget that day.

A memory of Blaydon in 1962

I remember many many things As a child about London Street as for many years my father had a photographic business adjacent to the Olympia Ballroom (first property on the right hand side of the ballroom with the name Photo ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1960 by Frank Waddom Brown

This picture is of Queenie Shuttler's cottage. She used to keep a cow and made the most delicious cream. Her brother, Les Shuttler, drove me to and from the bus stop, about 4 miles away at the White Hart, Poulner, to go to school ...Read more

A memory of Linwood in 1968 by R A Fletcher