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As a young girl my nan, Eveline Edwards, nee Elliott, lived with her family in one of the pair of cottages (the one furthest from the main road) that is now The Dogs Trust property. Later on she used to take me to visit her ...Read more

A memory of Newton by Val Mundy

We rented rooms in Long Cottage in 1952. The owners were Edmond and Mary Hall. I was 6 years old and a bridesmaid along with Suzette, at her sister's (Anne) wedding. There was also a sister named Bridget. Mr Hall was a baker: I ...Read more

A memory of Eynsham in 1952 by Carol Adair

My family moved from Woking to Tongham in 1942 into Springpond Cottage in Grange Road - a farm worker’s cottage belonging to Ben Ceasar. Dad was a lorry driver delivering the farm’s vegetables. There was only cold running water ...Read more

A memory of Tongham in 1965 by John Reynolds

I was born 6 January 1956 at 4 Lodge Road across from Skellow School on a Friday morning. My parents baptized me Shirley when I was 3 years old at Owston Church, my surname was Brown. My past relatives are buried ...Read more

A memory of Old Town in 1956 by Shirley Roe

Charlotte Gibson was born in the middle cottage in 1846. Her father was Joseph Gibson a farm labourer. In 1876 Charlotte had an illegitimate son Joshua whilst in the Bletchingley Union Workhouse - Joshua was my grandfather. I recently ...Read more

A memory of Chelsham in 2013 by Derek Gibson

Lets get this right; come off the High Street by Frog Lane on the road that goes back to the A4. The cottage in question is on the corner, go straight on to the church. It's basically the same big wall before it now, and it's all one house.

A memory of West Overton by Andrew Couling

As a child my family moved from Leytonstone, London to Church Lane in South Benfleet. Memories are sketchey but I remember clearly living in what were called at the time a 'bungalow stores', it was a pre-war pebbledash ...Read more

A memory of South Benfleet in 1967 by Michael Gough

Does anyone know when the little station cottage got turned into? My mother lived there with Margaret Brown and James Brown, Jimmy as he was known, in - what do you call the street?

A memory of Castle Douglas by Heather Jackson

Down St Mary School was built in 1878 on the site of the Bell Inn by the Rev. W T A Radford. In the 1930s I was a pupil in the infants' class which was divided from the upper class by a green curtain on a pole. There were ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland

My great-great-great-grandmother was Rose Baker, daughter of Amos Baker and Charlotte Broom, I have a photo of them all standing outside Mill Cottage and a photo of workers outside the Mill, one of which I believe is ...Read more

A memory of Felsted by Moira Smith