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I have vivid memories of the shops shown in the photograph. The shop on its own, on the right of the picture was Galley's Newsagents run by brothers Roy and Dennis Galley. Having said that Dennis' ...Read more

A memory of Helsby in 1962 by Ian Champion

We moved to Brampton in August 1949 when my father (an RAF officer) was posted there from RAF Wharton nr Lytham St Annes. My sister was three weeks old - and my mum only just recovering from a difficult birth after also just ...Read more

A memory of Brampton in 1951

Hello Willesden Kids, I was born in Willesden, Dean Rd. in 1947. grew up there until I was about 12 -14. I remember the Davis family across the road, (particularly Janet Davis - I was sweet on her, my first love, ha ha), and my mates ...Read more

A memory of Willesden by Bill Hort

So much and so little time; Green Top Primary School, happy days before the big move up to the Grammar School or North Eastern Road Secondary Boys. Mr Morris for metal work, Mr Snow for woodwork. Mr Colin Ella for religious ...Read more

A memory of Thorne by David Walton

Does anyone remember the children that lived in Highgrove House? I think it was run as an orphanage or similar. I used to catch a bus outside the house and was most times threatened or scared witless by the kids from there? I wonder what happened to them?

A memory of Eastcote in 1958 by Jacqueline Timms

I grew up in the same house until I was 18, from 1946 - 1964 when I moved to London. My dad was a butcher for East Fife Coop and my mum worked at the farm prepacking potatoes. I have great memories of the cul-de-sac. I ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1950 by Anne Ihde

My mother lived in Dunmow from 1932 until 1946 when she left to live in Edinburgh. My mother's name was Rosalind Frecknall and she and her family lived at The Close initially, then The Downs. Her father, Claud Frecknall, taught ...Read more

A memory of Great Dunmow in 1930

Alfred Ellington. 01-06-2013. My earliest memorys are during the war when we lived in the rear half of the old Star public house. l would have been 11/12 and l remember helping father put earth on small fire bombs ...Read more

A memory of Ramsey St Mary's in 1940 by Alfred Ellington

Good times. No electric, log fires, paraffin lamps, everything cooked on the old faithful black lead grate which I had to clean every week. No running water - my job every night when I got home from school was to get the ...Read more

A memory of Four Ashes in 1954 by Michael Jones

In 1974 I began researching the Buchan Lineage, which of course lead me back to Scotland, and Auchmacoy. My own blood had been three brothers who were local masons in the early 1700's and I longed to see their work. I had ...Read more

A memory of Auchmacoy in 1991 by Nancy L Buchan