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Dear friends of Burrow Hill School, has anyone got a picture of Mr and Mrs Rees's red sports car, I think it was an MG open top, can you help me please? Regards, Eric

A memory of Frimley Green in 1952 by Eric Morris

Dear friends of Burrow Hill School, my name is Eric Morris. I am asking you if you knew my brother Raymond Morris, he was at Burrow Hill School when I left in 1953, Easter time. He was there about September 1953 until ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1954 by Eric Morris

I moved to Burnt Oak in May 1940, to 84 Fortescue Road. I was 4. My memories are like a batch of video clips, as follows: Moving in. Removal men trying to get a wardrobe into the front bedroom by ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1940 by David Brusselen

My wife and I bought our first house at Portishead, South Road, it was £2,200, we could only borrow, so the monthly payment was the same as a week's wages, no overtime or my wife's wages taken into consideration. We ...Read more

A memory of Portishead by burge_john

Rowlands Castle Brickworks originally established during the 1880’s, and must have been the biggest employer at the time, next to agriculture. Not all the workforce came form Rowlands Castle, but from local ...Read more

A memory of Rowlands Castle in 1963 by Richard Goodall

With a borrowed rod, I caught my first fish in Stouts Hill Pond. The fish took my hook quite deeply and after dis-gorging the hook, we assumed that the fish was dead and my friend Reg Thomas took the fish home to Dursley to feed it to ...Read more

A memory of Uley in 1954 by Ken Cook

I came across this website by accident, what a treat. I was raised in Croydon, actually Addington. My nana and granddad lived at 195 Purley Way in Wadden. I spent many happy hours there as a child. I would spend several weeks ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1955 by Christina Jackson

I was born in Whalley, in the second cottage opposite the Catholic Church in the Sands, in December 1924. Next door to us was Mr Sutton who was well known around Whalley for his ice cream. He used to stand outside the ...Read more

A memory of Whalley in 1920 by Trevor Williams

My story starts on the 1st of March 1950, the date of my birth at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.  My parents Jack & Mary Flather lived in Old Rossington at 65 Haigh Crescent, living with relatives (Guy) ...Read more

A memory of New Rossington in 1950 by Sandra Faulkner

This photograph is taken from the Lichfield Road.  Veering off to the right in the distance is Greengate Street, and to the left, round the far corner of the library, the Newport Road. I used the library often. It had an annexe a ...Read more

A memory of Stafford in 1966 by Penny Trueman