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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

When I was about 12 years old, with feet as thick as young, strong leather, my father, who was a pilot (Allan Dyson) and Nina (my mum, Nina actually) took us all from our home on a plot of land in Halfway House in the Transvaal (some ...Read more

A memory of Glasbury in 1970 by Kayte Dyson

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

Towards the end of the Second World War my parents met and married while on active service in Egypt. As soon as my mother knew she was expecting me, the Royal Air Force sent her back to England on a ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage in 1945 by John Howard Norfolk

I was 5 years old when the Second World War started.  My father Alec Lawlor and mother Thirza Booty Lawlor along with my little brother Brian and myself were living in Bristol, West England at the ...Read more

A memory of Stondon Massey in 1940 by David Lawlor

I was born at Tyn y Siop next door to Snowdon Stores when there were 12 shops in Llanbedrog, now sadly there is only one. The bike you see in the photo was the one I used to make.

A memory of Llanbedrog in 1955 by Dewi Griffiths

I was born in Salisbury Hospital in August 1953, my parents lived in Little London, Heytesbury until 1955 when we moved to a new bungalow in Newtown, Heytesbury. The house we lived in is on the left looking at the photo pass the wall to the Vicarage.

A memory of Heytesbury in 1953 by Steve Sharpe

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

February 28th 1977 was the day my son David Guy Norfolk was born here. It was rather unexpected - some three weeks early and luckily my wife Elizabeth had been admitted a day earlier because ...Read more

A memory of Bellshill in 1977 by John Howard Norfolk

I was born and raised in Irthlingborough. I was born in 1948 above the shop to the left of The Bull, opposite the old bakery. Back then Finedon Road was quite narrow at that point. My grandmother owned ...Read more

A memory of Irthlingborough by Carol Ayers