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I too have very happy memories of Talavera Junior School. I was a pupil there in the late 1960s, having moved up from Marlborough Lines Infants School. I now live in Essex, but over the years on my travels, I have visited ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by Jueli Barker

My wife Mary Ross was born and bred in Milton of Balgonie. We got married in July 1970. It has allways been a very freindly place and still is, even with a lot of outsiders livving here. I came from West Lothian in the ...Read more

A memory of Milton of Balgonie by Daniel French

My paternal grandparents were one of the first families from Aberdeen to have a holiday home, called Mecca, in Newtonhill pre World War 1. I have a photo of my father in a wounded soldier's uniform sitting at a loaded ...Read more

A memory of Newtonhill

On April 18 1967 I was on a train travelling from Northampton to London. It was a sunny April afternoon, with a few small white clouds drifting across the sky. The train was about a quarter full and we rattled along peacefully ...Read more

A memory of Milton Malsor in 1967 by David Hills

I was born in Croydon in 1962 and lived in Milton Road.  I can remember visiting my nan and my dad's two brothers Reg and Ken.  They were really happy times and I can remember knowing I was near nan's when on the train I saw the playground ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1965 by Kaye Baberf

I remember moving to Milton Combe from Plymouth. It was in the middle of no where - how was I ever to survive - the last bus left Plymouth at tea time and took a tedious hour or so travelling through Clearbrook, Yelverton, ...Read more

A memory of Milton Combe in 1972

I lived in Lynmouth Gardens. Names I remember:- Mrs. Hutchings, Head of Perivale Primary School. Charlie Nevill, Head of the Junior school with his green sports car. Crystal Andrews who regularly showed us her green ...Read more

A memory of Perivale in 1940 by William Lamm

I first came to Gravesend with an advance party to re-open Milton Barracks in 1947. During my time there I met a Gravesend Girl and we were married at Milton Church in 1948. I was posted from Milton Barracks ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1947 by Verdun Lowe

I really do remember Baines Bros bike shop - good memories. I bought my BSA there and met all the boys on our bikes at seven thirty every night there - then we looked at the bikes and went to the grotto at Knaresbrough, ...Read more

A memory of Harrogate in 1963 by Peter Dunning

During the second war my father Ronald Micheal Newell was moved from W.T.Henleys London office to Milton Court, Dorking. He told me that as an Electrical Estimator he was involved in working out the costs etc. for RADAR and ...Read more

A memory of Dorking in 1940 by Martin Newell