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This is Corby Town Centre as I will always remember it. Long before the pedestrianization of Corporation Street, and long before a new building on Market Square obliterated the social heartland of the town! This was a town centre that ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Kenneth Kerr

Lived on poverest rd 1960s went to leesons hill and poverest schools top of hill then went to edge bury school chislehurst Went to 77 lessons hill to revisit but bungalow now flats most still the same.great times fun fair/fire works down near Cray river and 1955 ford consul for dads taxi Spo g

A memory of St Mary Cray by jobec

I was at school there from 1956 to 1963, first at the Old Primary School then the new one with Head Mistress Miss E Watson and her elder sister, 'tremendous old school' method teachers. I lived at ...Read more

A memory of Skelton by globnet_2010

In the 50's there was two way traffic in Abbeygate Street with T.H.Nice's Garage half way down with petrol pumps which swung over the road.I bought my first car, a prewar Ford 8 from him for £100,- which was the new price in 1938 !

A memory of Bury St Edmunds by frank.holmes26

My name is Robert Best. I was born June 24th. 1939 in Plymouth and evacuated to Princetown in 1941. My Mother, her parents and I moved to Plympton when I was 3 years old. I have clear memories of Princetown, of riding the train ...Read more

A memory of Plympton by rjbmk

Opposite Morrissons below where Windsor Gardens is now situated in Lower St. was a car sales lot known as Jock Bone. I bought my second car from him, a Standard 10 after trading in my Ford Prefect. He sat in a caravan at ...Read more

A memory of Kettering by raw50

My husband Ray Nimmo, and myself (Irene nee Ford) met at the Imperial Hall Waltham Cross, it was his first time there and I think the last as we met and fell in love... that was 60 years ago. We have been married for 58 happy years. ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt in 1953 by Irene Nimmo

We'll south ockendon truly a magical place to grow up moved from west ham to ockendon 1969 lived clay burn gardens Went to mardyke school and later culver house memories well many playing in the woods /primrose hill ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1970 by Kevin Lock

My father were born in Brindley Ford in 1911. His father was born 1881 and his mother in 1880. My grandparents moved to West Yorkshire around 1912. Consequently we visited family in Brindley Ford I don't remember a great ...Read more

A memory of Brindley Ford in 1950 by Joan Hill

The house we lived in, two up and two down, toilet way up the garden, no hot water, must have been a nightmare for my mum but my memories are of playing in the square with all the other kids, Maypole ...Read more

A memory of Cadishead in 1930 by Olwen Gillet