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Medmenham was a beautiful posting and a happy place. I attended the local dance hall.... where I was in great demand having danced to Silver medal class beore joining the RAF. Dream on you say !!!!!! Yes indeed. I am still in touch ...Read more

A memory of Medmenham in 1956 by Paddy Pollock

I used to go to Innellan when I was young to stay with my grandparents and what great memories I have, I used to get the bus from the pier and get off at West Church Lane where they lived. On Sundays we walked up to the church and my ...Read more

A memory of Innellan in 1946 by Catherine Beetson

I AGREE WITH THE OTHER PERSON WHO POSTED THEIR MEMORY,I HAVE BEEN GOING IN THIS PUB SINCE I WAS A BABY AND LIVED IN LITTLE BADOW. I HAVE BEEN LIVING IN SPAIN FOR 20 YEARS AND ALWAYS WENT TO VISIT THE PUB WHILST HERE ...Read more

A memory of Woodham Walter by Jaime Ogden

My Great Aunt Alice Reynolds owned this cottage and ran the Village Post Office from here, until 1971.  This explains why there is a telephone box in the garden!   My mum and her two sisters were evacuated here in the war, then ...Read more

A memory of Easton Royal by Hazel Fraser

Until the mid '70s Shotley Gate was the home of HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training establishment. As 15 year old boys under training in 1964 we were allowed to visit the Post Office (see photograph in this collection) to draw money ...Read more

A memory of Shotley Gate in 1964 by Phil Smith

On the left of this view is the pub sign for the "Railway Hotel" - a popular drinking venue for older members of St Anselm's Youth Club and the Hatch End Young Conservatives!  Next door is a garage ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1965 by John Howard Norfolk

The first building on the left was the old Post Office (owned by Mees). Just to the front of this is a small footpath that leads to my Mum-in-Law's (Janet Halls nee Smith) old school. It was also the village hall. It still has the green tin roof..... noisy when it rains!!!!!

A memory of Sproughton by Tami Cross Halls

My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction ...Read more

A memory of Glen Affric in 1949 by Denman Lalonde

The bus is parked outside the Pontypool office of the "Red & White" bus company. Their head office was in Chepstow and they ran services across the whole of Monmouthshire as Gwent was then known. Buses for Newport, Usk, ...Read more

A memory of Pontypool in 1955 by Robin Morgan

I also remember this scene of Hatch End.  I lived in the Pub which just about appears in this picture on the top far right, its the white buillding that is just sticking out slightly.  Next door to the pub was the Conoco garage ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1967 by Elaine Stephens (Nee Ockwell)