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Marden Park was the furthest extent of our cross-country run from Caterham School (Wapses Lodge) in 1951. We would leave the school, cross the Caterham by-pass, run on a bridle path between fields (which I believe, in 1944, were used as ...Read more

A memory of Caterham by druidh

To all it may interest: I have discovered among the effects of my late father, Roger B Vincent, of White Lodge, Hingham, Norwich, Norfolk, a letter dated March 8, 1947 from the manager of the Grenville Hotel, ...Read more

A memory of Bude by jravincent

Mr Geoff Duff's memories sent to you on 27th July 2008 gave me such a surprise. I too remember the strange woman who would walk down to Woodford Station around 3.30 in the afternoon every day summer and winter obviously to ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1942 by Valerie Thompson

Powerstock was my local village from 1951 to 1963. We lived at Kings House Farm at the foot of Eggardon Hill. My father Eddie Whitaker farmed (the hill rented and his 13 acres) for 12 or so years before ...Read more

A memory of Powerstock in 1951 by Peter Whitaker

My father was farm manager at Orange Court Farm from 1964-1967. We lived in one of the cedar wood bungalows put up in Littleton, I suspect in the early 1960s, by the More-Molyneux family for estate workers - they also owned the ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1964 by Andrew Webb

This 1953 photo shows Bristol's Horsefair in Broadmead not long before the rebuilding of Broadmead after the blitz of theSecond World War. Broadmead runs between Union Street and Penn Street, and was a part of ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1953 by Paul Townsend

Hello, what a remarkable site. I came across it by accident while looking for something else. I was facinated by the reference to Lonesome . I also went to Lonesome School from around 1951 to 1961 followed by my 3 younger sisters. Our ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1955

I shall always remember the night in 1968 when I rode my motorcycle - an old BSA Bantam - over the A1 and it blew out on me. My parents used to live in Ickburgh in Norfolk (a little village between ...Read more

A memory of Grantham by The Frith Memory Archivist

Can anybody help with information, memories or photos of a former children's home in Epping New Road, in Buckhurst Hill? I spent part of my childhood in a ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1955 by The Frith Memory Archivist

My earliest memory of Totternhoe was when we moved to the village from Dunstable after my grandfather died. We came to live at 35 Church Road next door to my father's cousin Winifred Heley who was the postmistress at ...Read more

A memory of Totternhoe in 1951 by Adrian Siret