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We moved into No 33 Crescent Road in 1948 - it overlooked Timber Hill recreation ground which in those days had a large emergency water tank where we caught newts. I am trying to place the house in the 1903 picture. From ...Read more

A memory of Caterham in 1948 by Alan Pendlington

Hello, according to the 1881 census my children's great great grandfather came from Wathe upon Dearne. He was a coalminer, his name was David Griffiths and he was married to Mary Griffiths, he was ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1880 by Lorraine Whyley

Lived in Shaldon Drive, Morden during my teenage years and like a lot of my mates bought a motorbike. Then discovered Hals Cafe in Morden town centre opposite the Crown Pub. Absolutely lived in there after work and weekends. What a great ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1964 by Roger Skipper

The black and white half-timbered building in the photograph was The Gable House, owned by my late grandmother, Nancy Hawkes and her sister, Hilda Cook. The house was run as a short-term residential home for patients staying ...Read more

A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1940 by David Hawkes

Hi, I lived at No 4 John St from 1948 to about 1960 before moving to Ann Field St and then up the Hilltown to Ann St (Carnegie Tower). The town council must have found out that I had moved down to the West Midlands, for when I ...Read more

A memory of Dundee in 1960 by Jim Mackin

I was born in Slough in 1943 and lived in Cippenham until I was fourteen when we moved to Canada. Cippenham was the perfect place to grow up: a short bus ride to town, and a short walk to the open country, Burnham Abbey, ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by John Carstairs

It is indeed Hunshelf Bank, and the school was probably Stocksbridge County Primary, although there were a couple of church schools as well. I spent my first 17 years on Unsliven Road, Stocksbridge. It wasn't ...Read more

A memory of Stocksbridge in 1955 by Barbara Williams

I first went to Zeals at the age of about 4 months, my grandparents lived in the row of cottages on Tulse hill. My grandparents where Mr and Mrs Hicks, with them lived my aunt who still lives there to-day, Phillys ...Read more

A memory of Zeals in 1952 by Ronald Taylor

I used to spend my summer holidays at my grandmother's house in Middle Street and remember spending many hours in the Olympia amusement arcade at the top of the road that led into the old town. There was a juke box which ...Read more

A memory of Hastings by David Gerrard

Harlow as we know it today was the first London-area ‘New Town’ to result from the Town and Country Planning Act of 1946, a long-term plan to build a number of new towns around London to ease the housing crisis after the Second World War, ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1960 by Julia Skinner