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Hi there people, nice to see memories of Taxal Edge on here. Please let's not get it confused with Taxal Lodge, 2 very different places, Taxal Edge and Taxal Lodge... I I have set up a Facebook group ,please search ...Read more

A memory of Taxal in 1989 by Lee Cockshott

I remeber the old canteen, playing on the old factory site, and I remember the lorries parked there full of dead cows from Lidgates (stunk like hell). I remember when it was just fields all around, the old Shell garage was just a wooden shed with old pump. No Shenstone Colse or Whitnash and so on.

A memory of Balsall Common in 1965 by Andrew Speed

We used to go as a family to the Tea Room which, if memory serves, was called 'Cornerways' for Sunday lunch, as a special treat in the fifties. My father took me to a wine tasting held in the ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1960 by Pamela Johns

I used to live in the Dukes Head. My uncle & aunt, Dot and Joe Craston, they were the tenants and I lived there with my mum and stepfather, Peggy and Derek Stone. Many good memories of the area apart from Collingwood School ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1959 by Rod Harrison

At the age of 14 my father began work as an apprentice pawnbroker for the firm W. Paines & Co. at their Strood branch on the corner of High Street, and Station Road. The firm had 3 branches. The apprenticeship lasted 5 years, followed by ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Ann Claydon

I have a great sense of belonging to Brown Lees. In the 1920s/30s my great grandfather, Wilfrid "Bluey" Bailey, was under manager at Victoria, and subsequently his son ...Read more

A memory of Brown Lees in 1969 by Rob Bailey

I was born in S.Kensington, moved to Northolt and then to Carlyle Road, S.Ealing around 1951 when I was aged 4. I attended Little Ealing Infant School and then moved next door to the 'upper school'...later moving to the new build Ealing ...Read more

A memory of Ealing in 1950 by Victor Hunt

I was born in Abridge in 1964, the last of 9 kids. We lived in The Mead which is no longer there. Abridge was a great place to grow up, we would play outside in the woods or over the shallows all day and only come home ...Read more

A memory of Abridge by Clare Horgan

My grandparents moved to Parsons Mead when grandad was transferred to Croydon Co-op. My mum, Eunice Moat, was head girl at Selhurst in about 1937. I went to Winterbourne In the infants we ...Read more

A memory of Croydon

My dad once made me what us Royston lads would call a Cadjie! It was a go-cart made from bits of waste wood and two sets of wheels from off an old pram or pushchair. One would control it by its front wheels which were attached ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1959 by Roland Mitchell