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I was born at the Bransbury Nursing Home, Jubilee Road, Waterlooville, during the war in December 1943. I lived with my grandmother Eva Hill (nee Redman) and my mother, Joyce Hill (nee Lewis) at 56 Hambledon Road ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville by vesitrix

My mother was born in August 1912 at 14 Perriman's Row, Withycombe Raleigh (this is shown on her birth certificate). She was illegitimate and the home was that of her mother's relation George Parkhouse and his wife and family. I recently visited Exmouth and saw the home (I live in Canada).

A memory of Withycombe Raleigh by Angela Rickett (Nee Kavanagh)

I remember the coffee smell as one wandered up the high street. Someone on this memory board has asked what was it called. It was called: Coffee Importers, because that was what they did. You could buy beans or have them ground ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Susan Tebby

iwas born in holmfirth valley hospital in july 1944. my name is judith rowley and i had a sister jean.my mother mavis and my father jim.we lived in south lane,then moved to a lovely house called cliftonville but cant remember the road ...Read more

A memory of Holmfirth by Judith Gregory

My name is Phil Kincaid, born in 1962. I attended Swanley Comp for most of the seventies and it was a brilliant school. It suited me down to the ground. The teachers there encouraged individuality and nurtured my artistic nature. The ...Read more

A memory of Swanley by philk.arts

My brothers and I who grew up in St Michaels used to fish in the Mill pond. I was only very small born in 1971 and I remember sitting on a wall next to the damn wining our legs over the edge of the pond. Then the damn broke and the Mill ...Read more

A memory of Tenterden by parryjoanna

Hello readers, I was born in Doxey and have fond childhood memories of the village as it then was. I lived at 227 whilst Granny (Picken) lived next door at 226. Granny and her first husband Harry Parsons kept the Castle Tavern on Doxey ...Read more

A memory of Doxey by Michael Harnett

I was born in East Dulwich but my parents moved to Waverley Road, South Norwood when I was 3 months old. I moved out to Rayleigh Essex with my wife, who also lived in Waverley Road after our marriage in 1955. I was, and still am an ardent Crystal Palace fan.

A memory of South Norwood by don.chum

I was born in September 1939 just after WW2 had started...My parents who had their house in Waldridge Road decided to move into West Lane to be near my Grandparents while my Dad who was in a reserved occupation was ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street by maps4

I was born in Aberdeen in 1958. I lived in Stuartfield, with my Dad, Bert Gordon and Mum, Vi, in a tied house belonging to Sandy Adams (Adams of Old Deer) from 1960 until we moved to a council house in Windhill Street in ...Read more

A memory of Stuartfield by hmnoble