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Typing this memory on behalf of my mother-in-law, Doris Leadbitter (now Doris Sidebottom) who worked as a nursery assistant between January 1946 and June 1947. She says "I always thought about the children and wondered how ...Read more

A memory of Stowlangtoft in 1946 by Judith Barnes

My grandparents lived in Addlewell Lane, Yeovil. It backed onto the railway track and I used to wave to the engine drivers. We went for the school holidays every year until about 1961. At the end of Addlewell Lane was the tanning ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1960 by Julie Davis

The Woman in the back ground is my Auntie Gillian Dainton. She has this very picture hanging in her flat. My mother was born in Uttoxeter. Her family homes; Eaton Croft, Delves Hall, Brookside. I hope any one ...Read more

A memory of Uttoxeter by Ann Cooper

I lived in bagby from the age of 5 months, from 1934 to 1942/3 My father was Police Constable Jim Conway and we lived in the house next to Bells Cattle transporters. I went to the school there and also attended the ...Read more

A memory of Bagby in 1930 by Sylvia Fayers

During my time in training as a 16 year old student for just one year I had lodged at my grandparents, Fred and FLorence Clarke. Quite surprisingly whilst coming from a small hamlet nestling within Oxfordshire I settled ...Read more

A memory of Stratford St Mary in 1975 by Mark Clarke

I was born in Perivale Maternity Hospital in 1943. Like so many of your writers growing up then was a magical time; the freedom we had to wander the fields, play and fish in the canal (in homemade boats ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by John Bowring

Whilst it is now many years ago, (I moved to Holland in '76), I'm just feeling ever so slightly miffed that your contributor didn't mention a couple of bands. I played in in the '60's, both hailing as 'Coalville' bands - ...Read more

A memory of Coalville in 1968 by Malcolm Latham

We lived in Whitehaven Road at number 1. I was seven when we left and I was heartbroken, and so were my parents really. We moved to Suffolk, near Felixstowe and dad tried to encourage us to be enthusiastic because we ...Read more

A memory of Bramhall

St Mary’s Church at Kingsclere, north west of Basingstoke, is famous for a most unusual decoration, a weather-vane in the shape of a bed-bug, seen on the left hand side of the tower in this view. It is a very tasteful ...Read more

A memory of Kingsclere by Julia Skinner

My birth certificate 1938 says Roseneath; father was a gardner on the estate and have photos of the estate cottage. Also pictures of reputedly oldest trees in Scotland called Adam and Eve, probably long chopped down as castle. ...Read more

A memory of Rosneath in 1930 by William Hair