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Dad moved from Old Bexley, where he had a butchers, to Riverhead, and owned the shop at 4 The Square. It was Challisis before him. I loved the village and its history. We lived above the shop, and I ...Read more

A memory of Riverhead in 1960 by John Witcombe

I was born in Norwood Green in 1939. I also went to Clifton Road school. We were bombed regularly as the anti aircraft guns were in Osterly Park behind our house which was also opposite St Marys Church. Two Italian prisoners of ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1940 by Rosemary Kind

We moved to Roe Green Village in 1940 having been bombed out in the East End. My father was stationed at Mill Hill Barracks following his return from France. He found us a place to live in Goldsmith Lane, Kingsbury. We spent the ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1940

I was taken to live in Goldsmith Mansions as a baby of two months in 1946. I lived there with my parents until approximately 1949. I have a memory of walking up the staircase to our flat. I have a much more vivid memory of the ...Read more

A memory of Peckham in 1946 by Sheila Watson

I remember growing up on Milton Road. Most of the families moved in at the same time, we were mostly from Scotland, our dads came to Doncaster to work in the coal mines. All our neighbours were friends, all the kids played ...Read more

A memory of Carcroft by Jacki Reeves

My earliest memories are of the married quarters, well into the interior of the barracks of the Dorset Regiment. My father had escaped the poverty of the East End of London in 1923. By 1937 he was ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester in 1930 by Peter Giles

Southend-on-Sea in the 50’s At the housing estate in Mitcham where we lived they had a tenants association. Every Friday night, two of the committee would go round to the Elm Court flats in Mitcham, where we ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by Carole Baldwin

I was an evacuee from Coventry at the age 6 with my mother and 4 siblings. We had been bombed out of our house and came to live in what i think was a Manse next to the Church in Coleshill Street. (on a memory lane trip years ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield by r.lonsdale2322

In the 1950s I lived in Broadhurst Gardens and every day walked with friends through this twitten to get to North Bank School in Smoke Lane. The lane was dark and overgrown on one side and on the other side backed onto the Crusader ...Read more

A memory of Reigate by Barbara Walters

IWAS BORN PATRICIA ANN MACHON IN HOVE SUSSEX IN 1943 BUT CAME TO LIVE IN MAESTEGLOVED MY STAY IN MAESTEG AND MADE A FEW FRIENDS THERE, I WENT TO PLASNEWYD IN 1948 AND MET A FEW GOOD FRIEND THEN WENT ON TO LLYNDERW SCHOOL I THINK I KNEW SANDRA ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg by pat_280