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I was born in Hounslow, Clare Road. We moved when I was two. I was born actually next door to the now well known Francis Forsythe!!!! My Aunts all lived in Matindale Road. I know the area from 1947. I have so many memories. Loved ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1960 by Kay Oliver

1934 onwards. The first school I attended was in Wixoe. Many happy days were spent there under the guidance of Miss Harmer, later succeeded by Miss Watts and Miss Turner, later suceeded by Miss Bareham. I ...Read more

A memory of Helions Bumpstead

I was 10 years old when the picture of Selsey High Street was taken, and I lived in the house on the right hand side with the low wall outside - it was called Glen Roy! I have this picture on my office wall and I am convinced that I am the ...Read more

A memory of Selsey in 1960 by John Floyd

I also remember the 'Splash'. We were told that some time in the past a Queen had crossed here with her ladies-in-waiting and that one of them had fallen in? Well, it's a good story. As a very horrible little boy, we used to ...Read more

A memory of Fetcham by Colin Plummer

I was but a young lad of 13 when I were to stay in a small village called Oare with my brother-in-law and sister within a cottage of which was named the China Cottages. The cottages originally had ceilings as low as five ...Read more

A memory of Milton Lilbourne in 1963 by Roland Mitchell

My elder brother Peter was at Dockenfield School around 1944 and has similar bad memories of abuse whilst a student there. He had been placed in the school by well meaning parents to avoid the bombings of south east ...Read more

A memory of Dockenfield in 1940 by Christopher Farey

Many happy years in Sutton, especially in Sutton swimming baths, when my dad used to cycle with me on the crossbar of his bike, from Beauchamp Rd. He taught me to swim when I was about 8, that's when they had diving boards. The days ...Read more

A memory of Sutton in 1946 by David Sheath

I grew up in and lived in Bensham for the first 26 years of my life, albeit the last 5 of those years were spent in the Merchant Navy as a sea-going engineer. My first school was Chester Place School which was across the road from ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Noel Kelly

My ancestors go back in a strong line to Eaugate: first ref. is to Thomas BRADFORD in 1811 (born) m. Anne Draper from GEDNEY. One son JOHN was my grandmother's father, she was Mary-Ann, b 1878, a preacher's daughter, but 'low' ...Read more

A memory of Moulton Eaugate by Valerie Peyrusse

From 1935 to 1941 I was a pupil at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Crediton, travelling every day by train from Morchard Road Station, leaving home at ten minutes past eight to board the eight thirty ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland