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My grandparents, Charles Herbert and Maud Mary Epton, lived at 3 (later 11) Council Houses, Brothertoft, and my childhood holidays were always spent here. My dad was born in that house, as was his brother, and my grandparents ...Read more

A memory of Brothertoft in 1979 by Ann Epton

My first introduction to Fairbourne I think was in 1953 (the same week that we heard that Everest had been conquered and the Coronation). As a child resident of St Christopher's Railway Orphanage in Derby, we went camping for the first ...Read more

A memory of Fairbourne by Peter Studden

Looking for some help really. My grand mother lived in Clapham for most of my life until 1994. I was born 1964 at 78 North Side, Clapham. I used to take the family dog for a walk every day 3 times a day on the ...Read more

A memory of Clapham by Nicci Starr

Just got back from a day out with my dad, he took me to show me where he spent a couple of years living in St Johns Village, he lived at Number 7 Warwick Lane (I think it was Warwick Lane. We walked from the main car park in the ...Read more

A memory of St Johns in 1942

I was at Pitreavie when it was a signals station for the Royal Navy and the RAF. We were like moles underground most of the time. The best thing about it was the warmth and the peace. We had a great crew down there, RAF ...Read more

A memory of Pitreavie in 1953 by C E Jones

My God! I remember the baker shop fondly as it was opposite the Ealing Studios, and we used to hang outside Ealing Studios loads of times as kids, hoping to see someone famous - and we did. I've said "Hello" to Hattie ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by John Nicholls

It was about 1957 and before, when the Willows was a place to picnic on a Saturday and Sunday afternoons. It was a very popular place, with the Shuggy boats and the river to play in, and there were houseboats ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1957 by Jimmy Burrows

My great-grandmother, Mrs Clara Burr, had the Supply Store in Halling Road for many years from the early 1900s. She had been widowed in 1903 when her two sons, my grandfather Rowland and his brother Norman, were babies. When ...Read more

A memory of Halling in 1900 by Mary Rogers

I was born in St Catherine's Hospital during 1943 and spent the next 22 years living right across the street from it until I emigrated to Canada in 1965. I can remember my mother, my sister and I walking along Derby ...Read more

A memory of Tranmere in 1950 by Angela Rickett (Nee Kavanagh)

I, with my three brothers and mother, lived for a while in an apartment near the top end of the town. My father was in the Argyle and Sutherland's. Later we moved out of town to a house called 'Pothill' where my mother was dairymaid ...Read more

A memory of Auchterarder by Neil Grant