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Having just re-read Professor A.H Dodd's "A history of Wrexham" He was amazed at how much history, buildings etc had been swept away in the name of progress from 1850 to 1950. He published his book and died in 1975, ...Read more

A memory of Wrexham

I was still at school when the Queen came to Chelmsford for the first time. I don't know what the occasion was, nor the year, but at the time my father, Roy Iliffe, was working as a ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by Susannah Handley

I was born in 1946 and lived in a house in South Road, not far from Jimmy Parkes the butcher. This was, of course, well before the advent of supermarkets. My mother and I used to walk from South Road, along Clifton ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge in 1949

Seemed like everybody knew everybody in the town in the 1950s and a trip to town with grandma was an obstacle course of gossiping delays riddled with 'not for the ears of children' innuendo...Yellow bereted... ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1953

My great-grandfather William Chard Howe was the last Howe to run the family painting and decorating business in Crewkerne, following in the footsteps of his father Thomas and his grandfather George, who seems to have ...Read more

A memory of Crewkerne by Caroline Howe

I WAS BORN IN 1959 I LIVED AT NO 1 BURTON ROAD HEATH TOWN WITH MY 5 SISTERS AND 2 BROTHERS, MY FATHER WORKED AT GKN OFF THE BILSTON RD AND MY MOTHER ALSO WORKED THERE, JUST UP THE ROAD WAS FOSTERS SWEET SHOP WHICH I REMEMBER VERY ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town in 1959 by Leonard Vaughan

Born in the North Mid like most people my age (1931), I lived my first 25 years at Tottenham Hale, at the end of Brograve Rd., facing the Station Green. The green had a nice fence around it before the war when ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by Peter Mackin

I was born in 1972 and grew up in Dartford, not leaving until i went to uni in 1990. It was never the most picturesque of towns but none-the-less a great place to grow up and easy to get everywhere. The schools ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by Sarah Lyman

My late father Arthur Thomas Wells, son of Robert worked for Parker Pen and edited their magazine BLOTS and SPLASHES , and played for their ...Read more

A memory of Dover by John Wells

Although our postal address was Woodford Crescent, Pinner; the Northwood Hills shops, some 20 minutes walk away, were the closest. I remember the lovely 'Swiss Chalet' bakers, Paterson's butchers next door, ...Read more

A memory of Northwood Hills by hilaryj143