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My grandparents, Fred and Rose Organ, lived at 67 West Way. My mother, Betty Eileen, and I came from the United States to visit on holiday in 1955. I was 6 years old at the time. I went to Heston School for a ...Read more

A memory of Heston in 1955 by Christy Rolf

My husband became the minister of Wheatley Lane Inghamite Church at the far end of the village of Fence in 1978. In those days we believe it was the busiest church in England (at least) for weddings and funerals. In six ...Read more

A memory of Fence in 1980 by Helena Rogers

I worked with the ponies and donkies in the mid to late 1960s. Sometimes we would take them home to their field via Seagate Road, there would be about 4 or 5 of us riding ponies and the donkies would follow but ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1968 by Marlene Hyland

I discovered the swimming pool during a bike ride with a friend and we thought ourselves very daring for cycling through the park even though the park attendants were watching. You didn't have to lock your bike in those days and ...Read more

A memory of Woking in 1963 by Sheila Rice

To this very day my memories of my childhood remain happy ones. For many reason really, in the 1970s the village was a fantastic place to live. We lived on Dukes Meadow just behind the Drum and Monkey. Everywhere was ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1973 by J R Lyons

My grandmother lived along the road past Deacons Lane. I first learned to ride  a two-wheeled cycle along that road in 1939.

A memory of Ely in 1930 by Roger Sykes

St Peter's Hospital was one of Bristol's finest and most historic buildings, which had been home to pirates and an alchemist as well as a mint and a workhouse among many other uses. It was destroyed in the blitz ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

I was at the school from 1945 to 1947. Names which spring to mind, on the spur of the moment, are Shirley Anne Blyth, Maitland Bond, Penelope Bovill, Hilary Cunningham, Anne Elliot, Faith Fabian, Jennifer Jeffries, Brigid ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1945 by Lilian Johnson

Memories are funny, they come and go and during this time of lockdown I've thought quite a lot about my childhood. We lived in Amberley Road, very close to the Raglan School entrance in Raglan Road. ...Read more

A memory of Bush Hill Park by Sharon Kenealy

I wrote the 11 plus exam in Woodhurst in about 1949 and passed! Miracles will never cease! The school bus didn't come into Woodhurst so we rode our bicycles to Oldhurst, parked them in the garage there ...Read more

A memory of Ramsey by hamishg