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My Years In North Marston

I lived in North Marston in the 1950s, at 25 Quainton Road My Grandfather Ezra Rawlings was a tailor. I remember bonfire night on the sports field, cycling down Church Hill, Christmas carols, Friday night youth ...Read more

A memory of North Marston in 1955 by Rodney Abbey

Paras At Watchfield In The 1950s

Yes, I lived on the Watchfield housing estate from 1952 to 1953. Large numbers of paras and their equipment were dropped regularly at the airfield. Trainees jumped from large silver barrage balloons, but ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield in 1953 by Geoff King

Holiday In Heavon

I remember travelling by coach to Edgeworth with my aunt and grandmother to stay at this lovely old house for a week that seemed like forever, in about 1943. I now find that this old house is called Duntisbourne ...Read more

A memory of Duntisbourne Abbots in 1943

Visits To My Grandfathers @Fullers End

Every year in our school holidays we would stay at my aunt's house at Sawbridgeworth and all my family would meet at my grandfather's house at Fullers End, Elsenham for a day. Me and my brother, Thomas, ...Read more

A memory of Elsenham in 1949 by Michael Marlow

Croydon Surrey Street A E Pearce

I have very fond memories of Croydon, especially Reeves Corner which has now been destroyed. I was born on Fairholme Road in 1974, but moved to Wallington when I was three. But we shopped in Croydon most Saturdays, ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1980 by Elain Barbet

One Childs Memory Of Living In The Covent In Doverourt

I have just been reading on the times of the floods in Dovercourt. My sister Rita and myself, known as (Rita and Mary Kelly), were brought up by the Salesian Sisters at the convent from ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1953 by Irene Stokes

Fishing Under The Arches

I was born Marilynne Thompson at 17, The Lynch, Polesworth in January 1952. My mam and dad, Peg and Geoff Thompson both worked at Ensor's brickyard. When I was about two or three years old we moved to a cottage ...Read more

A memory of Polesworth in 1961 by Marilynne Connolly

The Old Village

I remember George's second hand shop in the village, my nan would take me and my brother there for a treat that was the highlight of the week for us. Also the pie and eel shop, with the brightly coloured tiles outside on the wall. ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1951 by Norma Dignum

Life In A Kent Village During World War Two

Benenden was my home for the first 5 years of my life. We lived in Greenwood, a lovely white Kentish weather-boarded house on the Cranbrook Road, sadly knocked down and modernised a couple of years ago. ...Read more

A memory of Benenden in 1940 by Anthony Doran

Blakelaw 1962 1982

1962 - 1982, growing up in Blakelaw, living in Lindfield Avenue going to the Walling Infant and Junior School, Blakelaw Lower and Upper School. Playing football using the garden gates as goals, playing football for Blakelaw ...Read more

A memory of Blakelaw by Kevin Johnson

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