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Balloon Woods. Most people says it was a hell hole. Yes some parts of it was. But to a child it was good. There were more quite a few blocks. Some had four floors, these were called Tansley Walk, Bealey Walk, Hartington ...Read more

A memory of Wollaton in 1971 by Jean Smith

I remember Clifton in a different light. We lived at 17 Pastures Avenue during 1966/7, my brother or one of them, he's the youngest, was born there. I met my half sisters and brothers there. I have always liked ...Read more

A memory of Newark-on-Trent in 1967 by Jean Smith

I started at the infants school in 1948 in Chobham St Lawrence and I made my own way in those days, it was safe to then. I remember the headmistress of the infants school was Mrs Gosden, and a teacher, Mrs Hutchinson, also a lady ...Read more

A memory of Chobham in 1948 by Ann Tedder

I was born and bred in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, the eldest of three children. My memories of Ashby itself are snapshots from a time which now seems so old-fashioned that it as nostalgic as a Herriot novel. As a ...Read more

A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1970

(Not just 1955, probably most of the 1950s.) When my mother was a little girl, she was looked after by a nanny, who in her later years lived at Fairways, a bungalow at the end of Carroll Avenue.  In the 1950s when I was very ...Read more

A memory of Ferndown in 1955

I was only about 6 years old but I clearly remember visiting my grandparents' house on weekends. My grandfather was a gamekeeper on the moors until his retirement. In the early 1970s he and his wife moved to nearby Penistone. ...Read more

A memory of Upper Midhope in 1970 by David Salmon

I loved Caddy's. Sometimes if I think hard enough I can get the memory of its taste, mmm. I remember having a tall glass of lemonade and ice cream and sitting on leather upholstery in the parlour in town. It was such a treat.  We ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury by Annie Devereux

Camberley, where it all began. Where I lived half of my life so far. In your head you never leave the place you were born and raised. On a wet un-comforting day I found myself revisiting the town of my past. I was cast into ...Read more

A memory of Camberley in 1988 by André Goddard

I started being accident prone at an early age it seems. My parents lived at the above cottages with me and my big sister. My dad was a meal miller and worked at the meal mill just up the the road to the right I think, ...Read more

A memory of Kersemill in 1956 by Val Litten

My husband Gerald and I moved into 1 Grove Cottage 6 years ago. We love living in a house so full of history and often try to imagine what it would have been like during the hundreds of years people have lived here. It's ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham in 2009 by Anona Coates