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I have great memory's of farnborough in the 60s I was in the Royal Engineers stationed at Cove, had a girlfriend that lived in Melrose Avenue the road opposite the shops shown in the photo of the shops on the Pyestock estate Mike Batten

A memory of Farnborough by mikebatten

I lived in farnborough for first 28 years of my life, got married and had 4 children there. Grew up on the Sinehurst Estate then moved to Grange then Hawley estates. Went to Farnborough Grange Schools when they were still ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough

I recall classes being abandoned in the afternoons when I first attended Cippenham J.S. (Mrs Jones class?) due to the practice by the RAF flypast culminating at Farnborough for Q.E.II. A huge display of ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by David Rees

I couldn't believe when I came across this picture. In 1950 I was born just above the shop (the first blind on the left). The shop was Reliant Shoe Repairs owned by my late father Arthur Piggott who was very well known in ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1950 by Dudley Piggott

I have been looking up the old photos of places I have visited and came across Busk Crescent, Cove, Farnborough. Somebody wrote about the crescent. I knew John Mcbryde and his family who lived at no 27 in the 6190s. I visited ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough in 1966 by Sylvia Webster

My grandparents (now deceased) owned the first show house on the Clifton Estate. They had a picture with the mayor at the time which we have somewhere. The house was on Farnborough Road. I think it was 1951 or ...Read more

A memory of Clifton in 1951 by Janine Toulson

My memory of Farnborough was of the hospital, a wonderful old pub and the local cricket ground. Our first child was born in Farnborough Hospital. While my wife was in the hospital I was playing cricket for ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough in 1958 by Anthony Beere

I moved to Cowdenbeath from Lochore in 1959 at the age of two. We lived at 3 Alexander Street (house long since gone).  My mum, dad and me. I attended Foulford School for one year. I remember the walks home alone every day by the ...Read more

A memory of Cowdenbeath by John Campbell

We lived in the flats called Pinehurst Close, wedged between the bottom of the RAE and the Queensmead shops. We moved (to Cove) just as Kingsmead Shopping Centre was being built (1966/7?). I went to St Patrick's School in ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough by Terry Loader

The picture of Cove, West Heath Corner, is the bottom of Minley Rd. To the right is what was then called Hawley Rd, to the left is what was then called Fleet Rd. The large house between Minley Rd and Hawley Rd belonged to the ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1944 by Anne Terry