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My earliest memories are during the war of hiding down the Andersen garden shelters in King Edwards Saturday Road and St Erkenwald Road with my parents and brothers listening to the shrapnel pinging around us as the ...Read more

A memory of Barking by cliffordsmith961

I was a boarder at the convent. I started in the Autumn term before my 5th birthday and remember being put to bed in a large dormitory on the top floor, full of other children with a cubicle for a nun to sleep ...Read more

A memory of Bridport by Marius Rowell

I was 9 when we returned from Australia in the summer of 1967, we lived at 37 Farley Road after three different houses in Littleheath Road all belonging to friends of my parents, who conveniently were away on holiday by ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Cooper

My grandmother, Rosa Hayden, nee Stonehouse, lived at the bottom of The Devil's Punchbowl and later at Forked Pond. Her husband, a Boer War and WWI survivor was gamekeeper at Forked Pond, even though he lost an ...Read more

A memory of Thursley by maylin1951

I just read Martin Doonan's memories of Burgess Hill at London Road primary school . I lived in Burgess Hill from 1960 to 64 . Looking at the old photos bring back great memories . I was in Martin's class and remember ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill by keeperalallangardiner

When I went to Leysdown in the 1960's there was a wonderful farm, we walked through the farm to get to the beach. It was lovely, for someone who lived in London, it was great. I saw cows up close, sheep up close, then we saw little ...Read more

A memory of Leysdown-on-Sea by artytricks

I knew Thornton Heath very well, from the early 1950’s through to the end of the 1960’s. Shopping with my parents at Woolworths (opposite the clocktower) and ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath by d_harwood

lived in no 5 mitford bungalow in the late fifties no running water, tap in the middle of the green went to ffynanngroew school remember when albert constantine was run over by the shop ran in front of the bus even now ...Read more

A memory of Tyn-y-Morfa by iamacpherson49

The shop set back from the road was run by the Kelly family in the 1960s. It was a newsagents. My mum and my aunt worked there. I was friends with their eldest daughter Gillian. There was another daughter called Susan and a son called Philip. They were a lovely family.

A memory of Huntington by noa

I was Born in Littlrcote Mill Enford on 24th May 1940, my great grandfather John Dobson ran a agriculture business from there , steam engines ,thrashing machines ,ploughing engines, and a foden steam wagon running from London to the west ...Read more

A memory of Enford by andrewcherrie21