Search Results

This photograph brings back many memories of the Coleford of my childhood. The area round the Town Clock has changed a few times over the years mainly to accomodate the increase in traffic. The building on the far side ...Read more

A memory of Coleford in 1955

In 1940, we were evacuated to the village of Metfield, with my mother and brothers. A Mr and Mrs Godbold let us move into one of their cottages on the farm. On going to school, the local children would call us ...Read more

A memory of Metfield in 1940 by Douglas Smith

I too was evacuated to Westbury when I was about 7 years old, some time around 1940 to 1941. I lived on Warminster Road. We stayed with a family originally from Sydney, Australia. I remember when the ...Read more

A memory of Westbury Leigh in 1940 by Brenda Lowery

I lived along Windsor Lane which became Burnham Lane, also moved Counties from Bucks to Berkshire without leaving our house. The Mill was just down the road and I played with my friend Pam Willingale who later moved to Holyport. At ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham

I remember as a lad cycling from Bishop's Stortford to the old Stansted airport. In those days there were just a few buildings with a very small terminal building. You used to be able to approach ...Read more

A memory of London Stansted Airport in 1968 by John Lewin

That was a wonderful write-up by Carol about Sunbury Road and it brought back so many memories of my childhood. I was born in Fulham in 1932 and in 1934 I moved with my lovely parents to Feltham where we first lived over the ...Read more

A memory of Feltham by Ralph Burton

I was born in Park Royal Hospital in Dec 1948. I remember Woolworths in Wembley town had an exit on a corner of the high street and there were trolley buses all round. We used to shop for toys and games in George Arthur's which seemed huge ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1956 by Janet Cockman Nee King

I will never forget as a child playing around the ruins of Eggesford House. My imagination ran wild and still to this day, the house inspires me. It amazes me how such a beautiful house could fall to such ruin. As a ...Read more

A memory of Eggesford Station in 1980 by Martyn Grace

We, the Felton family, lived in Ashtead for many years until Dad retired from running the hardware shop Norman Stores in 1963. That shop had been in our family since probably about the 1890s (Dad was born there in 1907). We ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead in 1960 by Susan Felton

I first got to know Herne Bay in the Second World War as my parents used to send me there from where we lived in Feltham to stay with my grandparents on my mum's side to give me a rest from the bombing. In later years both ...Read more

A memory of Herne Bay by Ralph Burton