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The shop on the left corner is L Gardners -- newsagent and sweet shop. I marked up the morning paper rounds in 1965 and 66, then did my own round to finish about 8am. I got an extra 5 shillings for doing the extra round - making 15 bob a ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by colin

MRS BROWN'S SCHOOL WAS LIKE A DAME SCHOOL: YOUNG CHILDREN USED TO GO TO DAME SCHOOLS FOR CHILD CARE AND EDUCATION BEFORE GOING TO SCHOOL BECAME COMPULSORY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY. ...Read more

A memory of Carshalton by David Shamash

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

Hi my mum & dad was house parents at Marsh house and another one I remember George Frith, my family was there from about 1969 to 1971 Roy & Joan was my parents name do you remember them ? Please

A memory of Sutton Coldfield by Warren Stevens

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

My mum and all her brothers and sisters were in hilgarth children's home, half have passed away half surviving, they suffered years of cruel abuse both physical and mental, my aunt Fran always says why is there no one to hear ...Read more

A memory of Pinehurst by chunckylegs

My mother used to take us children to both St Mary's Church and the Emmanuel Chapel. Being a Presbyterian from Northern Ireland, she believed she was closest to "Church of England" but ...Read more

A memory of Morchard Bishop in 1960 by Ian Sterrett

For about 2 years around 1815 John Greenfield aged about 16, before he was married was a hired hand for a farmer In Hayes called Tom or Thomas Smith. Later John Greenfield and his wife Sarah lived in Hayes, near ...Read more

A memory of Hayes by Gemma Gemma

Not a memory as such but my gt.gt. Uncle Reverend Robert Blythe, Clergyman of the Church of England moved to Ogbourne St George where he became Rector of the church. Robert Blythe moved to Ogbourne St. George from ...Read more

A memory of Ogbourne St George in 1880 by Beryl Mann