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Uxmore Farm is part of Ipsden and is on an old Roman site, and my dad said when they put a tennis court in, they found Roman gold coins there. Uxmore Farm was owned by the Read family for hundred of years, till around the late ...Read more

A memory of Ipsden in 1900 by Yoga Prakash Saraswati

I have many happy memories of lovely holidays at my grandparent's home at Ridge Cottages. My father ( Edward C Jones ) married a Yorkshire lass and we would come down each year for two weeks. My aunts lived there also ...Read more

A memory of South Nutfield in 1957 by Glynnis Wilson

I lived in Boileau Road from 1948 to 1962. We heard the cuckoo every year. In Hanger Vale Lane there were Tawny Owls, Woodpeckers, Spotted Flycatchers and Blackcaps. There was a wood where Thackeray ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by philipsolly

I lived in Boileau Road from 1948 to 1962. We heard the cuckoo every year in the fifties. In Hanger Vale Lane there were Tawny Owls, Woodpeckers, Spotted Flycatchers and Blackcaps. There was a wood ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by philipsolly

I lived in a sweetshop come cafe on Top Dartford Road junction with Plantation Road the dustmen the funeral men and the local policeman Paddy Mccreary all came to our cafe they were a great crowd of men. Before that we bought a ...Read more

A memory of Hextable in 1958 by Jackie Payne

I visited Nutfield when I was 4 or 5 with my granny Lillian Curry - who was headmistress (a grand term for the head teacher of a 2 room school) of Nutfield C of E. She must have been appointed in the late ...Read more

A memory of Nutfield in 1953 by M Slingsby

My maternal grandfather Ernest Cording was the private secretary to Mr Augustus Brandt, of Bletchingley Castle, before WWII at William Brandt's London offices and was asked to move from Upminster in Essex to live ...Read more

A memory of Bletchingley by cgt

Hi Chris, How wonderful to hear from you after all these years, I had a lot of happy memories of Stubbington, but not so much of Hurn Court which I couldn't leave fast enough, there was a lot of bullying at that school, but it ...Read more

A memory of Stubbington by paul.mercer01

I was born in 1951 and enjoyed a very happy childhood in Thornton Heath. Our house backed onto the Graveney River and the Rec. Blissful for children. Many happy hours spent in the children's playground with the playground lady a ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Pauline Macdonald

I too was born in East Ham in 1949 as was my mother and grandmother before her. All living in Telham road before later moving to Central Park road.. can remember my gran telling me that when she first moved to East Ham she could look ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by peterlowe6