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Although I had known Southall from a very young age, I was born and grew up in Greenford, but my grandmother and an aunt lived in Southall, in Woodlands Road, so my earliest recollections occurred around 1950, when I was 5 ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1970 by Michael Nye

I spent my youth with my family "above the shop" in Deal High Street.  My father, Morris Orchard, first worked in, then inherited, the family shoe shop, which had been in business since my great grandfather's time.  In ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1959 by Cherry Robinson

I was born in 1938 but came to live in Denham in 1948.  My dad was then the local Police Sergeant, Sid Smith and my mum, Hilda, was a member of the Mothers' Union and Women's Institute.  I remember going to school on Cheapside ...Read more

A memory of Denham in 1948 by w.m.smith

To me the first eleven years of my life, growing up in Quarry Bank, was the most enjoyable. I was born Kenneth Graham Sewell, on the 26th January 1947, at 59 Saltwells Road, now renamed White City, and the whole country was in the ...Read more

A memory of Quarry Bank in 1947 by Ken Sewell

I was born in Horncurch in 1938. I lived in Kent Drive for 14 years and attended Suttons Primary and went onto Romford High in 1952. We backed onto Suttons school and were very near the aerodrome. Kyles the green grocer on the ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1940 by Gloria Friend

Living in Mytchett and going to the Infant school in Frimley Green during the war years, I had the choice of walking two ways home, Yes we walked then, not picked up in the family car. Through the Hatches to Mytchett via ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1944 by David Greenland

I spent a few weeks at the now long gone St Mary's Children's Convalescent Home overlooking the sea in Broadstairs, Kent. In the summer of 1956, when I was nine years old and my name was David Welsh, I ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1956 by David Rayner

My grandfather moved to Easington and worked at the pit for two spells. He married a girl from the village and they had 7 children. The family moved to the Midlands in the 1930s. One uncle returned after the war and ran ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery by Vivien Williamson

I worked at the Green Man, a lovely little thatched pub. The manager was Phillip Hanson Lester who used to play a grand piano in the bar. He was quite famous inthe are for his pub meals and eventually retired to ...Read more

A memory of Great Easton in 1973 by Mary Keith

Driving a major road through Queen Square. It is located in the historic heart of Bristol, just off Bristol's Floating Harbour, about half a kilometre south of the city's main shopping area, Broadmead. The square was begun ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend