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RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale by nemeton2

I was born in 1955 and lived in oakfield road until 1966.my surname is miller. Other names I remember were Upton,Harvey,Lewis, hartnup and collard. Some off these people moved at the same time as us to chelsfield Kent this was due to our ...Read more

A memory of Penge

Hi my name is Brian Ratcliffe and I lived in Dalton street for 10 years or so in the 50's&60's,then Lancaster ave and Brookdale street. I had 2 brothers [howie & titch] and we spent most of our childhood "down the ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth by ratcliffebrian2

I was born in Woodland Road in 1948. The houses were brand new. I used to watch the builders from Dates going up the road to work on the houses at the top. I would stand on next door's doorstep and swear at them as they passed. My ...Read more

A memory of Watchet by Noel Taylor

In the late thirties, my mother worked as a dispatcher in Stuarts Bakery in Church Street just down from the junction with Randolph Street. This building has been closed down now for many years. In ...Read more

A memory of Buckhaven in 1950 by David Gillies

Born Dec. 1924 Dollis Hill Ave, son of E.H.Carter who lived at Crown Terrace. In 1912 he opened his half-shop as a newsagent and tobacconist, joined-up in 1915 and left the running to his sister Florence who ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1949 by John Carter

I remember a van that came from the Bildeston fish and chip shop that used to park up in my Granddad's yard in Whatfield.

A memory of Bildeston in 1959 by Valerie Allard

I worked under ground at Abercynon Colliery from 1951 until 1953. I worked on the coal face in the "S" district, a five foot coal seam which was about 100 yards in length and which had a slight gradient. I ...Read more

A memory of Abercynon in 1950 by Royden Jones

"The Providence", as it was commonly known, stood at the corner of Laundry Yard and The Lynch. Built in 1795 with a later facade it was a gem of late georgian "chapel" architecture. You entered through a ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1955 by Philip Cousins

Laundry Yard was the narrowest and quaintest of the Yards in Uxbridge. Located between Windsor Street and Lawn Road it ran from the High St to The Lynch. There was still a laundry there when I was a boy (The Sunlight Laundry, I think ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1956 by Philip Cousins