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Shirley Platts & Val Carradus nee Molloy, sisters. It was 1956 when Shirley was 7 and I was 3 and a half when we moved to Ferryhill from Metal Bridge but we regularly visited our Aunt, Uncle and Granda ...Read more

A memory of Metal Bridge by Val Carradus

My name is Nora born at Gate Burton Hall 17 June 1942. My mother was evacuated from Hull as were many other expectant mothers during WW11 due to the heavy bombing which was inflicted on Hull. My understanding is that the Hall ...Read more

A memory of Gate Burton by Nora Warren

I was born in June 1944. My mother started labour in Farmcombe Rd (the Sussex end of TW) but delivered in the Kent & Sussex (the Kent end of TW). The Kent Sussex border ran (does it still?) by the St Johns church, Pantiles. ...Read more

A memory of Tunbridge Wells

I lived in Oxshott from 1943 to 1957. I was actually born in a nursing home at 1 Avenue Elmers, Surbiton, a building which has been converted to luxury flats now. My maiden name was Huitt and I had ...Read more

A memory of Oxshott by Rose Phillips

Went to St George’s school, had a best friend called Jennifer - she was always happy and laughing, but dippy - loved her, wish I could find her now, can’t remember her surname. So the school is still there but nothing ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

I remember the little sweet shop in the swimming pool accessed from both sides of the stream by the bridge. I lived in 57 Ferndale Road during the seventies, and was related to the Stone family on the corner.

A memory of Ashford

Over here in the United States of America most of the many thousands of Pease family members owe their existence to the brothers Robert & John Pease whose family line lived in ...Read more

A memory of Great Baddow by William Pease

Hello I was a patient at Penyfai back in 1973 and I was only twelve years of age. I regularly went over to Glanrhyd as that is where the social centre was, and would sometimes take the back exit ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1973

My mother Eileen Lambert (nee Carter) was evacuated to Menheniot in August 1944. Here are her meories of that time:- In August 1944, when it looked as though the Germans would soon be defeated, an evacuation plan ...Read more

A memory of Menheniot by Mark Lambert

My parents opened a grocery store at the bottom of Hatherley Road in 1960. It had been a corn chandlers before run by the Jennings family. Dad redesigned the shop on "modern " lines as a mini supermarket. I have many happy memories of ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1960