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I can never hear the song Sherry Baby without thinking of the Carlton times- it was the dance is over closing song - remember this?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3A9S79-gZs

A memory of Slough in 1961

My mother was born in East Crescent and she probably went to Enfield girls school. Her name was Faith Hill and her mother Ada ran a drapers. her father William Hill was ill with cancer but before that he was a monumental mason. ...Read more

A memory of Bush Hill Park in 1910 by Victoria Manning

I was born at home at 2 Church Lake and had 2 older sisters, Jo and Barabara. Even as a baby they would take me off on long walks across the church yard and over to Bucky's Meadow towards Venn. Crossing the stream in ...Read more

A memory of Landkey by Nick Crocker

Not long into married life we both walked into a miners strike that lasted until 1985. This was very hard having to adjust to married life and without no money because of the strike we both lost our first home. Soon ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1984 by Karen Surtees

Church Road - there was a row of old ricketty cottages where my grandparents, Thomas and Alice Wilkinson lived. Next door to them was an old lady always dressed in a long black skirt and a hat. She talked to herself and ...Read more

A memory of Moreton in 1940 by First Name Last Name

I remember a happy childhood, playing in the streets with my best friends Joyce Dean, Linda Perry & Maureen Beaumont amongst many, we had quite a large gang, playing rounders or sitting around telling ghost ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone by Hilary Hopton

I remember going regularly to Brentwood Cemetery. My Father would take us to visit the grave site of my baby Brother Barry who died at 8 months. My Sisters & I would help my Father maintain the grave. Lots of pretty ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood in 1953 by Bernie Ling

We arrived in Knutsford in September 1955: two bewildered parents and four children, the youngest only 10 months old. My father, a major, had been sent by the Canadian Army to take a year-long course in ...Read more

A memory of Knutsford in 1955 by Ted Gale

The photo was taken from the railway bridge and the new dual carriageway was only a year or two old. Round to the right opposite Deepdene Garage was Fairfield Drive and what a lovely area it was to be growing up in. We ...Read more

A memory of Dorking by Philip Ross

As a child my annual family holiday was spent in Shaldon, first staying at The Teign Crest as a baby and small child, later at The Clipper. Two weeks of blissful freedom - shoeless and carefree. Not many cars in the village in the ...Read more

A memory of Shaldon in 1965 by Pip Parkinson