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I remember Mr Morley, he lived in my road, Lynwood Drive, as did Mrs Mearing who owned the cycle shop and yes I remember Toni's for our icecreams. Greggs the grocers with the overhead "flying" capsules to the cashier and ...Read more

A memory of Worcester Park by Joy Cole

The water meadows have many happy memories. We bought the wired stopper Corona Lemonade in the village shop run at that time by Mrs Hunt. This was carefully carried to the stream and placed in it where the little 'island' ...Read more

A memory of Chilbolton in 1950

My name is Leslie Gale. My mum and dad moved into the house along Treacle Bolly in March the 7th 1947 and a week later we were flooded out. Does anybody else remember this flood as several bridges were washed away? We moved out of this house in 1950.

A memory of Marlborough in 1947 by Leslie Gale

I was born in Merthyr Tydfil but my grandparents lived in Rees Terrace. My grandfather, Hugh Price Watkins, was the St John Ambulance driver for the pits. I lived and went to school in Llanbradach for about three months ...Read more

A memory of Llanbradach in 1940 by Lionel Drew

I lived in Bushey and then in Oxhey Village for all of my childhood, first in Aldenham Road, and then in Oxhey Avenue, and later in Villiers Road. In the early 70's I was living in Oxhey Avenue and my friend Annette lived in ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1974 by Jackie Brewer

I was born at the hospital in Shorncliffe but lived first in the 'stone block' then in the tin town bungalows at Reachfields. All of the army families who lived there were happy as the bungalows were comfortable. Reachfieds was ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1959 by Kathryn Anson

Way back in the late 1930s and early 1940s I lived in Westgate Crescent and used to walk the length of Bower Way every day to Cippenham school, carrying my gas mask in a cardboard box. I used to be friends with Tony Rimmer who lived in ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1940 by Nial Reynolds

My Bailiff ancestors came from Askham. My g.g. grandfather Christopher's sister, Elizabeth, 1801, married William Henry Leech, 1795, whose father John Langton Leech, 1761, died in Askham and was the Vicar at Askham. Christopher's ...Read more

A memory of Penrith

I too remember playing by the River Mole; great excitement when we found what we thought was a dead scorpion on the riverbank. When they we building the Three Bridges estate, they had a narrow gauge railway for moving ...Read more

A memory of Crawley by David Randall

I remember Barkers well, I used to play with one of the sons of the brothers that ran it; I bought my first adult bicycle from them (a Triumph, which I think was part of Raleigh). One of the family ran the taxi firm outside the station and was I think, captain of Three Bridges Cricket Club.

A memory of Three Bridges by David Randall