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I too, worked at Gallons, Dixon Lane as a grocery delivery boy. I was a small boy and remember the bike was very heavy, and that it was a hill in all directions. I certainly earnt my 12/6d a week and some broken biscuits, but ...Read more

A memory of Lower Town in 1963 by Robert Brown

Benenden was my home for the first 5 years of my life. We lived in Greenwood, a lovely white Kentish weather-boarded house on the Cranbrook Road, sadly knocked down and modernised a couple of years ago. ...Read more

A memory of Benenden in 1940 by Anthony Doran

1962 - 1982, growing up in Blakelaw, living in Lindfield Avenue going to the Walling Infant and Junior School, Blakelaw Lower and Upper School. Playing football using the garden gates as goals, playing football for Blakelaw ...Read more

A memory of Blakelaw by Kevin Johnson

I started Walker R C in the 1950's and remember my wonderful teacher called Miss Morgan - she was so sweet and kind. I had very long hair and she would often bring in lovely ribbons for me, I was very shy and she was so very ...Read more

A memory of Byker

Interesting to read John Scott's recollections of Chamberlayne Road Boys' School. Strangely enough, I can remember nearly all the teachers. I started in 1942 in Miss Stockwood's class, then progressed to Miss Scott, ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1942 by Anthony Lawford

Hello, my name is Elaine Pierson, it was Elaine Williams when I was at Warnham Court School. I was there for my special dietary needs. I can remember a boy called John Walls and he had a cousin there called Terry ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1973 by Elaine Pierson

My grandmother lived at 50 Old Park Road, opposite Bloomfield Park, and I went to school at Franklin House School in Palmerston Road from 1955 to 1960, then the Winchmore Hill Collegiate School from 1960 to 1962. I used to ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1959 by Christopher Liddle

I lived with my family, the Widdowsons, at 6 Beck Road South from 1938 to the late 50s. Dad, Douglas, was the Branch Manager at the Co-op at Register Square in town. I remember playing cricket on Crane Hill ...Read more

A memory of Beverley in 1940 by Joan Roseveare

Can anyone elaborate please, on the so called bloodstain on the roof near the spike? When I was young and living in Horden (late 1960s) I was told it had something to do with a young boy who climbed onto the roof to retrieve his lost ...Read more

A memory of Horden by Jennifer Ward

My grandfather Ernest Harrison was born in Burton in Lonsdale in 1880 to John Parker Harrison a master tailor one of 3 boys and 12 girls (some died young). My grandfather told us of a time when he skated ...Read more

A memory of Burton in Lonsdale in 1880 by Elizabeth Orr