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I remember Tonis Ice Cream, Rosins the Baker, Genners toy shop, Pegglies Bike and Sports shop, Endines for Leather, Wilsons the Green Grocer and the long line ups for those ever so rare oranges, Watlings the tool shop and of ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1940 by Phil Tillman

Hi My partner owns the cottage to the left of the main Romsey road, that is Ivy cottage, next to Puckpit cottage the side of which adjoins cadnam road, Joyce purchased this in 1997 when she left the Isle of Wight and took up ...Read more

A memory of Lyndhurst by David Green

I was born in Godstone in Ivy Mill Close, just the other side of the Green.  I walked to the primary school along the Bay Path.  My Gran lived in St Mary's Almhouses right opposite the school and I would go there for ...Read more

A memory of Godstone by Joy Hearn

I was born in Eastbourne Road, in a house opposite the sand pits and the common. My name was Wendy Mitchell. With my sisters and brother I would spend hours picking bluebells and primroses and climbing trees ...Read more

A memory of Godstone by Wendy Soall

I had lived in Portskewett for the first eighteen years of my life.  I grew up there, went to Portskewett Infants and then to Sudbrook, most of my family lived in Portskewett and Sudbrook and as a teenager grouped ...Read more

A memory of Portskewett in 1970 by Susan Morley

I moved to 12 Edgecombe Terrace in 1965, no 12. We were renting and had just got married. I remember the toilet out the back, my husband had to go out with me with a lantern when it was dark. We lived next door to a Mrs Cowley who ...Read more

A memory of Biscovey by Veronica Gribbin

My memory is a life time!  I first came to Croft Farm, just above Lumbutts when I was 18 months old.  My dear, dear Aunty Kath and Uncle Geoff lived there then.  She was my mother's, sister's, sister-in law - so absolutely no blood ...Read more

A memory of Lumbutts in 1965 by Catherine Cowperthwaite

The Parade, Southborogh, was where my mother, Ivy, did most of her shopping. At that time you could buy pretty well everything you would need in the Parade. Trips into Tunbridge Wells were only taken if there was a need ...Read more

A memory of Southborough in 1953 by Michael Willcocks

MANY HAPPY SUMMERS WERE SPENT AT LEPE. i WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A GRANDPARENT THAT LIVED IN TH ECOAST GUARD COTTAGES FROM THE 60'S TO THE 80'S. THERE WAS A RAFT NEAR THE BOAT HOUSE WHICH WAS GREAT FUN. NO CONCRETE, FREE PARKING ON ...Read more

A memory of Lepe in 1968 by Julie Payne

The 1947 council house development that was built on the north side of Baldwins Lane, west of Manor Way became my home area after moving from Rochester Way in 1948. I loved the beautiful tall Elm trees that lined ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1947 by Leon Moore