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I spent a lot of my childhood at my G.Grandmother's auld hoose in the High Street, Linlithgow across the road from Alva House. Through a close, a Mrs Swan lived up right and Liza Dalrymple on the left. Next door was a Jimmie ...Read more

A memory of Linlithgow in 1940 by Connie Telfer Smith

Me and all my mates had many hours and plenty of fun playing in the woods. Best friends; Jimmy Peers, Terry Orr, Alex Maxwell, Mike Smith and many more. Could not wait to get home from school to have a ...Read more

A memory of Speke in 1959 by Billy Flanagan

I moved to Westward Ho! in 1952 with my parents and two sisters. My parents owned a guest house call Beacon Lights in Nelson Road, sadly it has now been demolished to make way for flats. I remember the floods at Lynmouth in ...Read more

A memory of Westward Ho! in 1952 by Jennie Smeath

After we were bombed out in London my parents bought a house in Romford, Essex. My father was working for the Ford Motor Company that had converted its assembly lines to manufacture Bren gun carriers and other war time ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1940 by Ray Tricker

I was born in a cottage opposite the Wheatsheaf pub when our village was greatly different from what it has become. I grew up in the proverbial English village. Happy days. I remember Baroness Kinloss, relative to the Duke of ...Read more

A memory of Maids' Moreton in 1950 by Carole Orpe

The house on the left is where we moved to from up on the hill in the background. The window closest, my old bedroom. From some point in the eighties, I started to play the drums. They didn't stop for about ten years ...Read more

A memory of Dolywern in 1981 by Dan Massey

I grew up in Stowmarket (Combs Ford end!). I remember Milton Road, etc, before the Relief Road cut the town in half! Saturdays used to see the town centre heaving with people - cars came through the main street ...Read more

A memory of Stowmarket by Karen Dack

The area called Mill Green is behind the photgrapher and the village ahead. The Mill was working up until about 1960 or so, as we used to buy corn from there to feed the chickens. To the right of the photo is the ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

In 1960 the world's population was probably a mere 5 billion, now it is over 7 billion people. It was a bit of a shock to realise that people actually wanted to come and live in Eastry and presumably prices were slightly less than the big ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

Again, we notice Eastry is set atop a hill and the Roman Road continues its way down and along to Sandwich. On the way are Dutch sounding place names such as Felderland Lane. The land is very flat and it wouldn't ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell