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I was in the Sanatorium, the children's section, aged seven in 1949 suffering from TB, my mother was sent there the following year and stayed in the woman's section, also with TB, and unfortunately she died there after just a ...Read more

A memory of Chandler's Ford in 1949 by Geoff Merritt

I attended this school in September of 1953 until December 1954, when I left and went to Salisbury College of Further Education. My father was in the army and we came back from Germany in July 1953 to live in ...Read more

A memory of North Tidworth in 1953 by Diane Kerwin

I was in St Claire's Orphanage with my two sisters after my father died in 1945. The Rev Mother Sister Phillomina had been a childhood friend of my mother's. This fact did not give us any added privileges. I ...Read more

A memory of Pantasaph in 1948 by Dora Murphy

I used to visit my aunt & uncle who lived in this - as it was known to me - the posh area of Thornton Heath: it was even pronounced differently - where I lived we invariably but a "mate" on the end of everything. Anyway ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath by Peter Lake

I went to a boarding school just ouside Seaford, called East Quinton. They were happy days as we used to walk from the back of the school to play in the trenches. I often wonder if they are still there.

A memory of Seaford in 1952 by Gloria Moat

We used to live at number 20 (next to the junior school), there was myself, Geoff, Geraldine, Liz my siblings and my mum and dad, my dad was called Kenneth Douglas and was a WW2 warrant officer, my ...Read more

A memory of Deepcut in 1955 by Alan Douglas

I was at Burgh Heath Methodist School from about 1953 to 1956. My mother was Mrs Coleman, who taught reception. Mrs Parrot was headmistress, Mrs Westwater taught the second class. Miss Marshall was at that time the milk lady ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath in 1955 by Barbara Lucas

My first holiday was when I was 9 years old (in 1958) and my parents and I came to Goodrington. We stayed at Beech Hurst which if I remember correctly was in Youngs Park Road. It was lovely. I made friends with a girl who lived ...Read more

A memory of Goodrington in 1958 by Barbara Lucas

This was the house occupied in the 1970s and 1980s by Sir John Colville, Assistant Private Secretary to 3 Prime Ministers, and Principal Private Secretary to Sir Winston Churchill when he was Prime Minister 1951-53 ...Read more

A memory of Broughton by Thomas Dowthwaite

I have postcards of Long Marston circa 1914/15 sent by my grandfather while he was serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers (WW1) .On the back of one he has written "this is where we parade every ...Read more

A memory of Long Marston in 1910 by John Rick