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On My Finedon website I received this e mail. As an expatriot I thought you would like a message. I was born in Finedon in 1912, and left for Canada in 1928. I lived in Placketts Yard and Ivy Lane. Attended the infants ...Read more

A memory of Finedon by Peter Munton

I came to Corby in 1966, we lived in 100a Rockingham Road, the flat above the old fire station which then became Kettering Tyres - my brother Eugene started working there at a very young age, being the tea boy. We where then moved to ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1969 by Jackie Finan

We caught the Rhyl A1 Crosville bus from Broughton Factory, Broughton, Chester. It seemed such a long journey in 1965. We alighted at Station Road, Talacre. I remember a small shop by the bus stop that sold Calor Gas. ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by Nigel Williams

Growing up in Wallington in the 70s and 80s was fantastic! We moved to Wallington from Sutton when I was a few months old, the house was split into two flats, nana and grandad lived downstairs, mum, dad my brother and I lived ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1980 by Paul Railton

I'm thinking this photo is from around 1968. The new bus station is to the right. That was built beneath the M1 motorway bridge and it and is clearly finished in the shot (the final southern extention of the M1 was finished late ...Read more

A memory of Mill Hill in 1968

Please, has anybody got a photo of Wheelock Station (train) I cant find one anywhere. I would be most grateful, the platform and steps are still there. I would love for my son to see a picture of the old station on what is now ...Read more

A memory of Wheelock by David Flamee

I remember the old Barking Station and loving the smell of the steam trains; standing on the bridge and watching the train from (Tilbury or Southend?) disappearing in a cloud of steam. Wonderful. Old Barking station was all Victorian ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1957 by Susan Mitchell

The shop next to the pub. By the time we arrived in Bracknell in the sixties, and certainly until I left for Uni in the seventies, was a newsagents and I am pretty sure it was run by Mrs Murphy. We had regular magazines ordered there ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell in 1970 by John Fareham

My grandfather, Herbert Fletcher, was one of the signalmen at Hayfield for many years until he was compulsorily retired in the mid 1950's. All his children and grandchildren visited "the box" many times, taking him his ...Read more

A memory of Hayfield in 1955 by Bruce Fletcher

There was an almost Regal feeling as we walked past the Alhambra, up the steps past the memorial, by the Queen Victoria statue and into the fabulous little Chester Street bus station. The buses in there were uniquely designed with attention to detail and with quality features.

A memory of Bradford by Paul Mc Evoy