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Year is approx. My uncle John and Auntie Marjorie lived at New Cross Farm with their three daughters Sally, Mary and Kathleen. Every summer holiday I would go to the farm for a few weeks and help or hinder my uncle. I used to ...Read more

A memory of West Lambrook in 1960 by Michael Saunders

Re: the Horse & Groom Public House now the Green Dragon Public House (rebuilt in 1920) in Broad Street Bungay. My wife's great grandfather, Thomas Gris (1855-1910), was the licensee of the Horse ...Read more

A memory of Bungay

My aunt and uncle live still in Elm Street, Mr and Mrs Webb. Anyone know them ? My grandad, now passed, used to live in Holly Street. My brother and I have many memories of Gilfach - taken there to see family for ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1860

I went to Alma Road school and then onto Bexley Lane Secondary 1950 to 1959. I used to stop at the bakers for fresh bread straight out the oven on my way home to Forest Lodge, a large old house which was located ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1955 by Arthur Arnold Luck

I remember that first row of shops quite well. There was a greengrocer on the right which I was sent to sometimes to buy 3lbs of King Edward's (why did he have potatoes?) My brother and I argued about carrying the ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Jon Holland

I was born in 1948 in South Hall Farms little cottage, which as I know is still there. The farm was owned by the Gunarys, I lived there until I was 19. I went to Lambs Lane Secondary School which ajoined the farm, ...Read more

A memory of Rainham in 1958 by Stephen Ager

The picture, named The Parade, fails to identify The Parade. The window blinds that can be seen through the foliage to the left is where The Parade actually is. It's a short piece of road that held four shops, the first a ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by Bill Haylor

I was but a young lad of 13 when I were to stay in a small village called Oare with my brother-in-law and sister within a cottage of which was named the China Cottages. The cottages originally had ceilings as low as five ...Read more

A memory of Milton Lilbourne in 1963 by Roland Mitchell

I think it was Colin who remembered that the 118 bus went from Clapham Common to the Cricketers. Well, Colin (or whoever it was), it went all the way to Raynes Park. I lived in Meopham Road, Mitcham, the upper part of which ran ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by Douglas Tunbridge

Went to live in Crook: Rosedean, West Road, in 1937. Everybody spoke a foreign language even though I came from only a few miles away, Northallerton. Or maybe I was the one who spoke a strange tongue. Many happy memories of playing on the ...Read more

A memory of Crook in 1930 by Ernest Hall