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Ivy Myers. I wonder how many people from Chalfont remember the "Rose and Crown", a Benskins pub. My father owned it from 1946 until 1950. There was also the “Kings Head” which was on the corner of Joiners Lane. Of ...Read more

A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1949 by Ivy Jones

I really remember the fish & chip shop, the stuffed alligator; kids were scared of it apart from me. I also recall how nasty that short Greek woman from the fish & chip shop was. One early ...Read more

A memory of Splott in 1965 by Lynette Carter

Who remembers the travelling fun fair that came to Blackfield in the 1960s? Did you go to Blackfield Junior school? What about skating on the frozen Gravel pits at Holbury in the winter 1962/3/4 or the Esso Cinema? or the ...Read more

A memory of Holbury in 1960 by Julian Bishop

I came across this site today and was taken back to my childhood. I was born in Netherfield at 21, Hodgkinson Street in September 1957, the daughter of Brian and Barbera Pritchett, and 2 years later had a brother ...Read more

A memory of Netherfield by Sue Hart

After the Second World War and during the austere period of rationing, among the items that were in short supply was coal. People would burn anything in order to keep warm, and many were the trips that I ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1947 by Frank Mowforth

Hi all. My brother and I were evacuated to Skipton in late 1941 from London. As we all sat on the floor in some large hall in Skipton after out trip up from London, people were walking ...Read more

A memory of Broughton in 1941 by Robert Munn

When the pea harvest was in full swing: the peas on their stalks where loaded onto trailers, then towed by tractor to the canning factories. Us lads would sit on the pavement waiting till a tractor came past, then run after it pulling ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1940 by Bob Marriott

Lived in Eltham from 1940, when Dad was in Artillery, and off to France, came back injured from Dunkirk, but alive, just ! Homes were, Rancliffe Gdns, Milburn Gdns, and Meadowside. Lovely road with unrestricted views across what is now ...Read more

A memory of Mottingham in 1940 by Peter Russell

After the Second World War had finished, and the people were already used to rationing, the Committee members of the Intake Club decided to relieve the hardships on the residents of Intake a little ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1948 by Frank Mowforth

My family and I used to spend our holidays at Point Clear almost every year during the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, and often met the same families each time we went down there. I ...Read more

A memory of St Osyth in 1956 by Robert Munn