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I'm guessing this is looking east from the Lower Street area over meadows and a cornfield with the Children's Homes to the right and the line of trees marking the brow of the hill of the Lynch. There was a pathway across that ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

Hi, I am Adam. I moved to Nazeing in 1977, aged 3 years old, with my mum and dad. We moved down from Harlow, to be nearer my grandparents. I went to Nazeing Primary School and so did my younger sister Joanne, born 1979. She also went to ...Read more

A memory of Nazeing in 1977 by Adz Walter

This shows the notorious bend as you enter the village from the south, which is still almost the same today, made worse by the increase in traffic. The white house right on th bend was occupied by Mr. Pike who lived to be over 100.

A memory of St Mary Bourne in 1955 by Stephanie Garnham

My name is Andy Pearce and I was born in New Haw in 1952. I went to Grange School in 1957. Names I remember are Jenkins, Wright, Hatch, Swanton, Gill, Watts. Many more faces than surnames.Was a paperboy at Flanagans on ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1960 by Andy Pearce

I lived in Mayplace Road East - firstly at no. 332 (from the age of 4) and then (after returning from living in Essex for a couple of years), at no. 310. Both these houses were more or less opposite to the Manor House ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst

I first knew Brimscombe in the 1950s. I was brought up between Toadsmoor and Middle Lypiatt. In this starkly isolated location, it took a devoted beer drinker to travel through the darkness to the nearest pub. My Dad was ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe by Fred Potter

I regularly went across this junction on the bus to and from home in Rochester and school at Chatham between 1955 and 1961. The Gaumont cinema was directly across the road from Bourne & Hilliers Dairy. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Rochester in 1955 by Keith Mungham

All the buildings on the left of the picture (nearly all Co-Op shops) were demolished to make way for the new Arndale Centre (now Swangate). Most of the local population still mourn the passing of this part of the old town. ...Read more

A memory of Wellingborough in 2007 by Mick Austin

Somebody - I believe their Name was Wayne - had once some years ago sent in a memory about the overhead system of Sending the containers of money from the counters in certain shops to the cashiers Offices. At the time I sent ...Read more

A memory of Penge by Anthony Godly

I Remember going to East Acton infants ,john Perryn junior and then Bromyard avenue later to be faraday .We lived in a prefab in church field road Sundays was a treat walking up to tony brothers ice cream shop (bowl in hand) I also ...Read more

A memory of East Acton by andreamarkham46