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What a great place this web site is. I certainly love the Burnt Oak as I knew it between 1947 and 1969 when I then emigrated to SA (since back in Weston super Mare). All the memories you folk have mentioned are mine too. I ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1960 by Fred East

I was bought up in Farnham, attended Clare Park in Crondall and then Weydon School, went to College at Brookwood. My parents were Terry and Bonnie Hunt, we lived at 37 Firgrove Hill, ...Read more

A memory of Farnham by Kitt Ray

I started at Eighton Banks Primary School in 1952 aged five, having been moved from the slum clearance of the Teams, Ghd. To be in open countryside after the lung-choking life of the industrial Teams was absolute heaven. The ...Read more

A memory of Eighton Banks in 1952 by Alan Bull

We used to stay at Three Ashes, Stoke Hill with my grandparents most summers in the fifties. They were called Moore. My mother (now deceased) was called Enid Moore and was brought up by her grandparents, John Moore a ...Read more

A memory of Stoke St Michael by Lnda Wilson

Seeing Norman Jackson's reflections on the teachers of Hugh Bell School conjured up all sorts of wonderful memories. I agree totally with his description of the two headmasters, "Taffy" Evans, the cane toting, foot stamping ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1940 by Clifford Wilson

John Williams married Amelia Baldwin born Hardwich, Abergavenny 11 March1853 (Llanfoist). They moved to Wigan, Lancashire, between 1875 and 1880 were my Grandmother Emily was born and her sister ...Read more

A memory of Blaenavon by Brian Freeman

I moved to no. 6 from Thornton Heath, aged 3, with my parents, Sylvia and George. My maiden name was Ruthven. My brother Keith was born in 1958. I initially went to Bandon Hill school, but my brother got pneumonia just after ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1957 by Teresa Brett

I am on this photo. I am one of the three girls in Grammar School uniform. The time on the clock, I believe, is 12.40 so we must have been going home for lunch. Not many people used to go home for lunch but we used to walk ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1960 by Marilyn Jones

I moved to Woodford Bridge when I was about 4 years old in 1949 and a few years later went regularly to Church and Sunday School at St Paul's Church for several years.  The Vicar at that time was Rev ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1954 by Chris Gadsby

From 1958-61 our family was the only one living on Mill Lane, just off the parade grounds near here. My stepfather was 'stationed' with the RAEC at Eltham Palace and I attended Shooter's Hill GS and Westminster Hotel School, subsequently. ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1959 by Dylan Rivis