Search Results

On a recent visit (Sept 2010) to Southend, I walked along that section of the beach,which brought back childhood memories of seeing Punch and Judy shows at the Minstrel Stage in the years prior to WW II. The stage ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1930 by Brian Mendes

My earliest memories of Shutford date back to around 1944, when as an eleven year old schoolboy I spent summer holidays with my grandfather Fred Turner (son of plush weaver Amos ...Read more

A memory of Shutford in 1944 by Brian Grainge

I look back on my time living in Hoylake as a child with great fondness. We lived in the Lighthouse pub for about 3 years. We were there when it closed. I can remember going down to the beach to see the lifeboat.

A memory of Hoylake in 1958 by John Stuart

I started at West Byfleet CS in 1963 when Fred Goodger was the head master, and a more paranoid man I've yet to meet, but some of the teachers were great! I remember the school very well and so many pupils. I came from Pyrford ...Read more

A memory of West Byfleet in 1963 by Ron Hardie

I had a chum at St Nicolas School who lived in a flat in Dene Street, Dorking. I remember taking the bus home with him for tea. After we roamed around the town for a bit before I caught my 470 bus home to Epsom. My memory ...Read more

A memory of Mickleham in 1952 by Stewart Cockett

I am now 63 but it wasn't till a couple of years ago that looking at my BC I actually took in that I was born at the Holbrook Maternity Home June 30th 1947. I'd always put down Belper as my place of birth as I'd only glanced ...Read more

A memory of Holbrook in 1947 by Roger Taylor

I was born on Doncaster Road, Denaby Main. I remember my granny taking me to Cyril Scott's farm for a bale of straw for the hens in the push chair, he always had a big horse in the stable, and there were 3 old railway carriages down ...Read more

A memory of Old Denaby in 1948

I was born at Bradwell on Sea waterside in 1958 and remember the quay very well. Much of my growing up days were spent playing on the very quay in the photo. In the summer we would leap into the water from the quay which ...Read more

A memory of Bradwell on Sea in 1958 by Tim Lodge

I used live halfway between Eastcote and Pinner and used to pop over to see school friends in Pinner. One of the boys lived in the old High Street and his dad was a tailor. Age catches up with me and I think his name was Stuart ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1963

My mother, at the tender age of 17, was taken to Bromley-by-Bow Hospital in the midst of the London blitz to have her first child. She never saw her baby girl, was told she had died and everyone was to be evacuated to ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Linda Wilkins