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I was in REME stationed in Peel Green and on Wednesday afternoons we were taken to see different factories etc, and one Wednesday we toured by boat all around the docks at Manchester and the commentator told us ...Read more

A memory of Manchester Ship Canal in 1948 by Trevor Williams

The Priory was my playground from 1936 untill I started work in 1948. My father was Nip Turner, and he worked for Sir Edward Bligh as his chauffeur/gardener from 1920s untill 1972. I was born in 1933 at Lower Daltons. My ...Read more

A memory of Swanley Village in 1940 by John Turner

I have no doubt that my lovely young, 23 year old mother, Elma , a WAAF stationed at Debden fighter aerodrome, during WW2, cycled this lovely lane at some point. It was around here, in the summer of 1942, that my life began when ...Read more

A memory of Debden in 1942 by Dylan Rivis

I lived in Nelson from the age of 3. I was born in 1954 so I arrived there 1957. I lived in the prefabs at 9 St Johns Lane, until I moved to 27 Brycelyn Ave when they decided they wanted to pull the prefabs down. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Yvonne Colwell

I believe this to be the White Hart Lock at New Haw situated at the junction of Woodham Lane and the turning off over the White Hart bridge which led to Byfleet station. I do believe also that the cottage featured in a film, ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1964 by Michael Ponting

I am originally from St. Helens, Lancashire, and met my husband, Roy, at Burtonwood AFB where I worked. He was stationed at Wethersfield but came on occasion to Burtonwood. When I moved south to be married, I had to live in the ...Read more

A memory of Shalford in 1958 by Anita Watson

When we lived in Wallington from 1965 to 1972, I remember going into Mantles the newsagent/sweetshop and buying sweets for my little brother and I. The town hall and library are situated behind here and looking down the high ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1970 by David Marshall

We lived here as a family from 1972 until 1985, where my parents ran an Old Folks Home, in Church Road. In 1998 I took a flat in Valley Road, Kenley for two years after the breakup of my marriage, before in 2000 following my ...Read more

A memory of Kenley in 1998 by David Marshall

Arrived by the ferry and stayed at Knockrome. I think the owner was called Boyle. There was certainly a Paddy Boyle. THere were some really old standing stones around Knockrome and you could climb up to the peninsula called ...Read more

A memory of Craighouse in 1972 by Raymond Day

This picture reminds me of the days spent in East Witton at my grandfathers house it was on the right as you look up the green with the pub behind you, it had a archway and it was a working farm there was no electricity and the water ...Read more

A memory of East Witton in 1962 by Dave Kirby