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My sister was employed as a nurse?? at this BIG house around 1955/56. One Christmas the management invited me via my sister Beryl Carter to play my trumpet for all the children many with heart problems. I slept ...Read more

A memory of Baildon in 1956 by Keith Carter

I was in Langley Children's Heart residence from 1951 to 1953. Is there anyone else?

A memory of Baildon in 1952 by Michael Marshall

In 1946 we left Kings Langley, my parents having lived there since 1936. I arrived in 1937, so can claim to be partially raised there. I must have passed the village pound many times without realising what it was. My ...Read more

A memory of Kings Langley in 1946 by John Nurcombe

The Crown Hotel dating back to the reign of Queen Anne circa 1702. Demolished to make way for hideous 1960s architecture, Dickie Wright's butchers shop and cottage on the corner of Church Street, the bandstand where Bob ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1960 by Chris Ingram

Hi once again. I remember when I was at Langley, it was the best years of my life. We had a really good life with people that really cared about you. I forget some of the names but I remember Matron Galliger, Nurse ...Read more

A memory of Baildon in 1956 by Carol Barker

I moved to Great Waltham with my mum and dad, he was head gardener for the squire at Langleys. We lived in Cherry Trees Cottage opposite the Rose & Crown and up a set of ...Read more

A memory of Great Waltham in 1948 by Edward Doulton

My family originates from Witton Gilbert and Langley Park. we left Witton about 1935 to live in Surrey. Langley Park war memorial has the name of my uncle John Robert Swinbank who died on the Somme in the first world war and my ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park by Eveline Denyer

We moved to Hythe in the mid fifties and our family of seven attended various schools in the area. I started work at Tony Dews Autos in Langley about 1965 and then went on to work at Jack Smith's Esso garage on Blackfield crossroads, ...Read more

A memory of Fawley in 1966 by Graham Dunbar

I was at Langley Residential school between 1956-1958. Does anyone remember Dorothy Kathleen Speakman, a skinny 8 or 9 year old? I remember being able to buy soap and talcum powder and sweets from the school tuck shop on a ...Read more

A memory of Baildon in 1957 by Kath Carling