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My family lived in Orpington Kent from 1959 to 1964. I was 5 when we left. We lived in Repton Road. It snowed so heavily one year(62/3?) that a train was stuck at the top of the embankment above our ...Read more

A memory of Orpington in 1963 by Melanie Gregory

Hi, Thanks for your comments. On my birth certificate my address is 37 Gunsite Farm. We left when I was two in 1964. However, I'm fascinated by its history. My mum was a single parent and had a caravan next door to another sing ...Read more

A memory of Fawley by John Taylor

I was born in 192 Sutton Flats and Christened at St. Thomas's. My older brother Johnny and I were very happy there and both attended Halton Bank School. Our auntie, uncle and cousins lived close by in another ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1950 by Lynette Riley

As my mother father and sister lived in Queens Road, Thames Ditton, there local maternity hospital was Bearsted Memorial Hospital which is where I entered the world on a foggy night in late October 1958. My father worked at the ...Read more

A memory of Hampton Wick in 1958 by Rob Jackson

The building with the turret is Acton Lodge where my grandparents Drs John and Mary Leedham-Green lived from 1946 until the late 1980s. The two cottages to the right had been demolished when my mother first visited (in the 1960s - ...Read more

A memory of Southwold in 1946 by Kay Leedham Green

I seem to remember that this section of Upton Park had its entrance at Sussex Place (at the East end of the High Street, just past Upton Road) Many an hour was spent walking/running through this section on route to Lacelles playing fields ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Anthony Rees

My Grandparents Mr and Mrs Childs owned the Fox Pub in the village during the second world war. My mother Sheila lived with her grandparents there. It only had a tiny bar and was opposite another larger public house so do not ...Read more

A memory of Winkfield Row in 1940 by Heather Collins

I was born in Pluckley in1954. My family have lived there for four generations. My great Grandmother Bessie Masters came there from Northiam and her daughter Abbigale Annie Manser (her mum married twice) married my ...Read more

A memory of Pluckley in 1954 by Gillian Barnes

Was a patient at the hospital from Palm Sunday, 1968 for about six weeks. The picture you have in postcard form was the rose garden. I took several photographs in colour, while there, as we had access to the whole of the ...Read more

A memory of Horsham by hilary.m.brock

This not "The Sandhills." This view is from the railway bridge overlooking Harrison Park, so named after a famous Wallasey family. The hills are man made, allegedly from the spoil from the building of the Wallasey tunnel. This is ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey by larryjonze