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I went to Ashford Grammar School and before that Echelford. We used to go to that freezing cold swimming pool!. We had to jump in. I lived in Manor Road opposite the golf course. My sisters and brother and our friends ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1960 by Lynda Gale

I was happily transported back to my childhood reading some of the memories on this page and thought I would share some of my own. I was born in 1951 in a tiny one up, one down house in Laneside, Yews Green. ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury in 1951 by Anne Clarke

I entered the Prep (Junior) School in 1956, passing to the Senior School in 1960, finally leaving in 1965, the year after the then Queen Mother joined in the 400 year celebrations. My memories are of a school run by the prefects, ...Read more

A memory of Felsted in 1960 by Andrew Dudley Smith

Newbiggin was the place I was brought up and spent many happy years on the sands and in the sea until I was 18. Life then took me to London to train to be a teacher. My parents had a house in Windsor Terrace where dad still lives ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin in 1970 by Mary Heynes

I lived in Skegby and at Whitsuntide we would do the Whit walks. The first I can remember I was quite young and sat on a dray cart pulled by horses and decorated up with ribbons, and the older children walked behind the banner of ...Read more

A memory of Mansfield in 1958 by Jennifer Barker

We caught the Rhyl A1 Crosville bus from Broughton Factory, Broughton, Chester. It seemed such a long journey in 1965. We alighted at Station Road, Talacre. I remember a small shop by the bus stop that sold Calor Gas. ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by Nigel Williams

When I was a small child in the 1950's my father had a toy stall in Halifax Borough Market. It was a wondrous place for a child in those days, a family, a community, with all the market children growing up together. I ...Read more

A memory of Halifax in 1955 by Sue Walker

I was brought up by my parents in a house in Baldry Gardens, the top end near Covington way. As a very small boy I was put into St Helens School primary, which was a Girls school but had an infants section. Then I went to St ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1940 by Doug Hopkins

I remember the old Barking Station and loving the smell of the steam trains; standing on the bridge and watching the train from (Tilbury or Southend?) disappearing in a cloud of steam. Wonderful. Old Barking station was all Victorian ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1957 by Susan Mitchell

I was born next door to the post office, which was run by my grandparents David and Mary Jane Phillips. My father, John (Jack Shop) took over the shop when they retired and we moved into the building which is the larger ...Read more

A memory of Rhyd-y-fro in 1930 by John Gareth Phillips