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Walking through the tunnel under the new motorway, every day to school at Walbottle took us through the Blucher's main road, through to Chapel House estate - that area saw some transformation, from open fields to housing.

A memory of Blucher in 1975 by Ian Heron

Very fond memories of Bethersden. I lived I Meadow House, of which you can see the front hedge of here on the left of this picture, just beyond the telegraph pole, in the mid to late 70's. I went to the village school there for a ...Read more

A memory of Bethersden in 1977 by Susan Lovell

I grew up on Tollers Lane, my mother and uncle still live there. My mum was always involved with the church - we used to go to St Johns church. I have lovley memories of my child hood on Tollers Lane - our house backed on to Fathing Downs, it was great.

A memory of Coulsdon in 1977 by Catherine Gibbs

My family moved from Pill in early 1960's to a new 3 storey house in Thames Close. The estate was only part built but me and my family moved in - it was a fantastic 'adventure ...Read more

A memory of Bettws in 1970 by David Netherway

My nan and grandad owned Davidson's greengrocer's in Mitcham, and my mum and dad lived there with them in the 50's early 60's before moving to Cornwall, and I have very fond but distant memories of holiday's and Christmas's ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1970

My parents married in this church in 1951, mum had been brought up in the village from birth by her parents (David and Gwen Bowen) and after marrying my dad, moved up to Sheffield. It was a quaint village ...Read more

A memory of Ferryside in 1973 by Emma Bennett

As a child I lived on Croft Road, Balby during the 1970's. My sisters and I attended Nightingale school while Mr Hillaby was Headmaster. We used to go on nature walks to the overgrown garden of the derelict old ...Read more

A memory of Warmsworth in 1975

We used to live in both houses as my father was the caretaker to the buildings which would have been built to the rear of the photos.

A memory of Saxmundham in 1979 by Sarah Hutchinson

Now then, what year was Stanhope cut off on all sides, Crawley had snow almost up to the telephone line, going to Frostley was impossible, in fact it was about 6 days that we were stuck in for, latest jobs were ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1978

I was about 7 and we lived at Greenhedges, Colchester Road, just before First Green. My twin sister Paula and I decided to climb up to the apex of the house. We sat there without a care in the world. Mum had popped ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe-le-Soken in 1970 by Stephen Garneys