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Ebbisham Hall for dances. White Hart next door. Spread Eagle opposite. Eclipse pub West Hill. Nelsons open air pool. Snooker hall above Burtons. Cafe in South Street. Arthur Wheeler Waterloo Road where I bought my first bike. And I loved the racing.

A memory of Epsom

My family moved to Eltham about 1954/5 and I lived there until about 1966. I attended Middle Park Primary School and later the Gordon School. We lived next door to Working Mens Club on Eltham Hill just down from the Swimming ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1956 by Eve (June) Knox

I went to Devonshire Hill School from 1940 - 1946 then to St. Katherines College. Always done my mum's shopping when I was little as I lived in Rowland Hill Avenue. We shopped at the nearest which was in Cambridge Road and ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1940 by June Hamilton

We moved to Frimley from Sutton as part of the London overspill. I was 2 when we moved into a house in Ansell Road. I remember my childhood with fond memories. I remember an old pig sty where Stonehouse Rise is now, I had some great ...Read more

A memory of Frimley in 1961 by Bob Lucas

This is Main Road Hawkwell, looking up the hill to the White Hart, taken from about where the fire station is now. The small white building in the middle of the photo is O'Leary's the butchers.

A memory of Hockley in 1965 by Ken Benson

I've just come across this site. My memory years are really from 1938 up to 1958, when I married and left Crownhill Road, but I have returned several times recently, as it draws me back to 'home', although we ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1940 by Douglas Parrott

My family moved to Spinney Close in 1965 and I went to Hart Plain School briefly before we moved to Crookhorn Secondary. I remember we hoped it would be called Oaklands but I believe that name was already taken by the Catholic ...Read more

A memory of Cowplain by christine.barns

Robert (Bob) and Margaret (Maggie) Urquhart, and family, occupied a croft named Drywells, at Bodinfinnoch, Parish of Botriphnie, County of Banffshire. One of the Urquhart boys later described Drywells as: 'The most miserable ...Read more

A memory of Drummuir in 1920 by R Urquhart

My parents owned the nursery at Spurstow, (I remember the big oak tree in front of the petrol front on the A49). They were there from 1943 to my father's death in 1951.  Was there a family called 'Prier' (soliciter, doctor) in the ...Read more

A memory of Spurstow in 1943 by Robin Wallis

I come from an RAF family that travelled across the globe until, in 1964 we ended up in Australia. Though english by birth, I am now an Australian, but I have fond memories of some parts of England where I grew ...Read more

A memory of The Green in 1952 by Michael Coley