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Warren Row was built to provision the people of Bracken Bank, Fernbank Place and Wentworth Way + roads off. The end shop by Bracken Bank was a butchers, the third in was the newsagent and the end one by Fernbank Road was grocers. Also there was ...Read more

A memory of Ascot by jonestommaddock

I was born in Mexborough on Church street in 1944one of twins, my father was a miner and we lived at Royal Oak Terrace , I had a brother Alan sisters Val Julia and Susan we did not have the best of starts in life but we got by. We all ...Read more

A memory of Mexborough by lalmond321

We moved from Bexley Village to Barnehurst in 1971 when I was four years old. I grew up with my sister and two brothers on Eastleigh Road where all the children used to come out ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst by reunsie

So sorry to read Renukadelima's comment about her sister, Geeta, who went to the Sacred Heart in Barnes in 1959. I was also there and my name is Suzanne DUPREZ and I do remember Geeta, as she was in the same class as ...Read more

A memory of Barnes by calmwaters28

Our family lodged with a Mrs Cotter at XX Dartford Road during the 1940s.After leaving her home I used to visit her and often notice she had bruises on her.Then one day in 1946 we were in Margate on a day trip and the newspaper ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by johnrank

Does any one remember Mariners mill burning down in Keighley it was in the early eighties. That day was a very sad day for all us workers as we thought it would put us all out of work, but it did not and three months later we were all back ...Read more

A memory of Keighley by lalmond321

my grandparents owned the creamery shop (Margaret and Fred Hoare) just down from the water front. We used to go in summer to stay in the attic rooms above the shop. It is now a sewing machine shop but the photo's give me very ...Read more

A memory of Whitstable

I was one of the first to go to this school when it opened us girls moved from Tidworth Down school i was in my 3rd year then dont know what that would be in todays school years i remember the girls all sitting in the hall at ...Read more

A memory of Ludgershall by lynnbeezleywright

At the junction of westgate and percy street there were 2 shops, one each side. Swifts the beer off one side and on the other side was Walkers, they were related to the Robinsons who went to Australia C1964. I lived on Westgate and went to Ellis school until 1963.

A memory of Old Basford

Mum and Dad lived in Crantock for years and when I could get away from London I would visit them. We would always have a walk in the evening out across West Pentire. It was magic to my soul with the sky larks over head and the ...Read more

A memory of West Pentire