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Hi. I am trying to find my family. Can anyone tell me what the clothes shop used to be called in Langley Moor (now the Taj Mahal)? Someone please help me.

A memory of Langley Moor in 1965 by Leanne Tait

My grandad, James Turnbull Smith, lived with his family on Dodds Street on the 1911 census, Bearpark. John Edgar Smith, was his father, brother Walter was a miner like his dad and his brothers and sisters were all at ...Read more

A memory of Bearpark in 1910 by Derick Smith

My grandfather, Walter Smith, came up from Bressingham, Norfolk to get work in 1861. He worked at Esh Colliery and lived in what they call the 'tile sheds'. His son Robert Smith was born at Esh in 1862. We have been to Esh, a very nice ...Read more

A memory of Esh by Derick Smith

At sixteen I owned a three wheeler convertible that with a bit of bending of the law sixteen year olds were allowed to drive. Plus the fact that the coppers didn't know how the law stood exactly. The car was a Powerdrive, ...Read more

A memory of Cowley in 1963 by Barry Hawgood

I was born in 1940 in Langley Maidstone, Lord Routes' house, a wing of which was given over during the Second World War as a maternity part for expectant mothers. We lived on the main road in Wrotham, opposite a pub ...Read more

A memory of Wrotham in 1944 by Jill Ambrose Nee Fisher

I wasn't a resident in Minster Way, but as a small boy I used to visit my St Ethelberts School friend Adrian Kenny there every weekend. About 1960 it would have been. This road and its housing was really a relic of the ...Read more

A memory of Langley in 1960 by Peter Rainey

In the 1950s at 4yrs old, I attended St Salvadoris Convent in Kitters Green, Abbots Langley. I was so happy there. My teacher was Sister Bernosa and the Head teacher Sister Jemma. I understand the Convent burnt down and the ...Read more

A memory of Abbots Langley by Barbara Skrzypek

Hhello Nick Brannigan, I used to drink with your brother along with Seamus Cleary, Micky Kerr, John Mullhern and a crew down the Old Mill and the Langley Tavern. I hadn't seen Seamus since we were kids but I often wondered if it was ...Read more

A memory of Fawley in 1961 by Mick Reynolds

My mother's maiden name was Maud Langley, her cousin Cyril was killed in 1938 while on a training exercise with the fire service, my father, Leonard Wood, escaped uninjured. I was 14 years old and remember his coffin being borne on a ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1930 by Ken Wood

Yes Patricia, I too remember Slough High Street at that time. I worked for Macfisheries that you mentioned with the fruit and veg shop next door. Smiths stationers a couple of doors away. In particular I remember many lunch ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Anthony Rees