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I spent every summer staying with the Jones family at Bryn Du farm, from about 1957 to 1965. They were friends of my parents. The farm was sold some years ago, after Tom Jones had died. I enjoyed the farm very much, which was ...Read more

A memory of Llanbedrog by Jean James

My Nana and Grandad Evelyn and Tom Gordon Walton, my dad's parents, retired to Alder Cottage, Crook Bank, Theddlethorpe. As a child I lived in a cottage in the grounds until moving away. But my brothers ...Read more

A memory of Theddlethorpe St Helen in 1950 by Myra Turner

I lived in Hillbrow Cottages on the Eastbourne Road from 1950 to 1970s. My father, George Mison, worked in the sand quarry in Bletchingley and mum, Elsie, was a housewife. There are only 12 cottages at Hillbrow and ...Read more

A memory of Godstone in 1950 by Ruth Bradbury Nee Mison

Can anyone remember the one legged swimmer who use to enter the sea near Trustville Holiday Camp in the 1950's ???????

A memory of Trusthorpe in 1956 by Keith Lever

I remember going to school with my Micky Mouse gas mask, we had air raid shelters in the playground. We had lessons in the morning and slept on camp beds in the afternoon.

A memory of Rugby in 1941 by Doug Hyde

I am 65 now, but if I close my eyes I am 10, playing in the cornfields down by MileOak Secondary Modern School, with my brother Graham Burton and some friends, Richard Gere, Suesanne Birchill and Roger Birchill, and ...Read more

A memory of Mile Oak in 1957 by Cynthia Miller

wow what memories of this very special place. I remember as a child of around 13, going with a group of kids in my road, and walking every day of the summer holidays the this place and building camps in the surrounding bushes until the street lights come on or when our tummies yearned for food.

A memory of Mitcham

My parents were friends with Jimmy and Blanche Greer,the owners of The Chocolate Box sweet shop, in Emsworth in the 50's. We lived in Windsor but we used to meet up with Jimmy and Blanche and their daughter Margeret at Lazalea Holiday Camp in Nutbourne every summer.

A memory of Emsworth by geoffreyhood

I lived with my parents in Hill Court, Wimbledon Hill Road in 1953. In 1955 I went to infant school across the common and past the Windmill. I can't remember the name of the school but I'm pretty sure it was in Camp Road. We then moved ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by huggins_sandra

I was born in Alexandra Road just off the Greenway... In 1948. My family had a great passion for Football...and followed the local REDS home and away. The club in those days had moved from the RAF ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by ian.woodley