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I was raised in Kenton from 1954 until I left home in 1971. My visits to Kenton up until 2013 were to visit my elderly Dad, who still resided in Woodcock Hill until his death. The changes over the years have been enormous. Mum and ...Read more

A memory of Kenton

During my anual visit to Dalkey many years ago I remember climbing on the green bank at the top of my grandparents Rd then Tram Terrace falling off cutting my head quite badly. The lady from the boot mender wrapped me up took me home and ...Read more

A memory of Dalkey by Dorothy Polrykett

Since my birth coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in the September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity;  I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1945 by Heather Rohrer

I also have fond memories of Erith, the Odeon and of Brook Street School - a fine school with fine men teaching, many just back from the war. The school motto was 'Integrity' and they set a good example (save for two miserable ...Read more

A memory of Erith by David Burns

I was born here in Newton Green and lived in the house just visible on the left - the last one. It was called Cotswold. The village shop was run by Mark Wilson and that could be him in the photograph, tinkering with ...Read more

A memory of Newton in 1957 by Pete Rowland

I have put 1947 but infact it is from earlier than that to 1954. I think this was a great place for us as kids as we had freedom and not much parental control, I think mainly due to our parents who had just survived the war ...Read more

A memory of Bearsted in 1944 by Ian Simmons

I visited St Peter's in August 1976 as part of a search for traces of my ancestors, the De Vauxs of Adlington, French Hugenots who first settled from France, in 1630. They became Yeomen farmers on the Leghs Adlington estate ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury in 1976 by James Logan Bell

My father Albert Allum was the School Caretaker from the day it opened in 1952 till he retired in 1982 Mother Alice also worked there as the School Nurse and Auxilary Assisant.My brother went there till he passed a Art exam ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1960 by Nigel Allum

Congleton Open Air Baths during the 50/60s. It had the entrance of a theatre, 2 steps up with an overhanging portico and glass doors that opened up to a foyer. It was well painted in the colours of the day, council green and ...Read more

A memory of Congleton in 1960 by Alec Coles

Takes you back doesn't it! Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this............ Close your eyes and go back in time... Before the Internet... Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack.... ...Read more

A memory of Blackhall Rocks in 1977 by Stephen Rafferty