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Just after the war during our summer holidays I was sent from Rochester (where we lived at that time, Dad having been demobbed and then working at Short Bros on the airport), together with my trusty Hercules cycle to spend ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1940 by Mike Mumford

This is Norbury Junction, not far from but, definitely not Gnosall. The boys in the woodwork class at school (Gnosall) built a canoe as a project which was afterwards stored in the old Mill on the opposite side of the ...Read more

A memory of Norbury Junction in 1963 by Penny Trueman

I vividly remember the day when as an eight year old, along with my mate and neighbour, Billy Sturmey, we "borrowed" 2 shillings from my mothers purse and hired a rowboat from the Portslade foreshore and rowed around ...Read more

A memory of Portslade-By-Sea in 1955 by Brian Langworthy

My family moved to Watford in 1953 to a large house in Rosslyn Road, a side road within a few yards of the Rickmansworth Road right opposite the Town Hall concert hall entrance. I spent virtually all my childhood there plus the ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1953 by J Lawrence Prior

In the '50s this is where I would catch the bus to Woking and on the right, to Guildford, where I travelled to school.  My abiding memory is watching the Shire horses being uncoupled from a Barge (to the right rear of the picture) and ...Read more

A memory of Send in 1950 by John Jelly

REMEMBER, REMEMBER WE must have been thirteen. Cousin Keith and I sat on a small flight of steps, what remained of a burnt-out bungalow overlooking the village. It was May Day. Hot and ...Read more

A memory of Mochdre in 1952 by Elwyn Edwards

I was born in the bungalow at Lock 93 in the Hanwell Flight in 1936. I went to St Marks School in Hanwell and then on to Borderston School along the Boston Road. I grew up in the lockhouse and we had an avery, allotments and ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Jan Theobald

Does anyone remember a bridge to the quarry under Lady Lea Lane? I think it was for transporting sand from the quarry to the canal. There used to be a carving of as "castle" under the bridge carved into the brickwork. Any story known ...Read more

A memory of Rhodesia in 1930 by Thomas Bell

I was a young kid living on the Ketley Fields estate, on Bromley Lane, between 1963 and 1969. The estate has long been demolished. It was surrounded by a kids' paradise, consisting of building sites, disused brickworks, and ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill in 1968 by Neal Richardson

On the 10th of May 1941 Christopher Forsyth and J C Mc Allister  saved a child from drowning in the canal at Monk Bretton bridge. Does anyone know who this child was? If so, please let me know. Thank you.

A memory of Cudworth in 1941 by Forsyth Edward