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At this time I was a resident at a K.C.C. children's home at Hadlow near Tonbridge Kent. During the summer holidays a friend - Paul Thornton - and I though it would be a good idea to visit London, with very little ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's by briang7jwx

Gosh, I am so old, I remember the time that the trams (696 and 698) were changed for electric trolley buses of the same numbers. Does anyone but me remember the horse trough beside the clock tower?. before the ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by George Rolfe

I was just wondering just how many people remember::- Smiths the chemist,Perks the grocers,Kennies the sweet and tobacconist (the original "wooden one)Browns the bakers etc etc the old fontain in the middle of the field(never ...Read more

A memory of New Addington by cabot.brian

I was only nine years old when we were bombed out on hodder drive perivale we were in our anderson shelter in the back garden I remember the war vividly the searchlights and the dog fights at night I remember not being scared it just ...Read more

A memory of Perivale

I was an evacuee from Coventry at the age 6 with my mother and 4 siblings. We had been bombed out of our house and came to live in what i think was a Manse next to the Church in Coleshill Street. (on a memory lane trip years ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield by r.lonsdale2322

I was born in Ash Road Dartford in 1929, moved to Miskin Road about 1934, then to Halford Way, where we spent the war, and from where I left to get married at Holy Trinity Church in 1951. Earliest memories were of Miss ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by ngrist21

I was born in Basingstoke in 1942 at 17 Mortimer Lane, pulled down during the town redevelopment. I remember playing on the bomb site opposite St Michaels Church, now a remembrance garden. We also used to ...Read more

A memory of Basingstoke by brianperrett

Working on my bungalow today in the ancient, beautiful Dorset town of Sherborne, I kept on hearing the tolling of the local Abbey bells. Not really unusual, except today, the sound seemed to 'resonate', and take me 'way back' ...Read more

A memory of Acton by alangtaylor

hey new at this game, have traveled the world,both with the army and as a security adviser to many arab and african nations but i was born and grew up on the bombed out streets of wear tyne and tees streets, the town moor was ...Read more

A memory of Ryhope by adeynathan.na

My earliest recollection of the beginning of the bombing of Barking was the destruction of a school in little MORLEY ROAD , I was about six at the time. However my younger brothers dispute this and say that to their knowledge there ...Read more

A memory of Barking