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Stepped off the train at Sudbury Station accompanied by my then boyfriend, who came from Monks Eleigh. We went to get the bus from the Market Hill. It was a Rules Coach. This photo is almost ...Read more

A memory of Sudbury in 1966 by Carole Buttle

Moved to Hayes at the age of 12 and it seemed to be a busy place to a girl just up from the country! As I got used to more traffic and industry I found it to be a nice place though. I remember Townfield Girls Secondary (dreadful place!) ...Read more

A memory of Hayes by Kim Cavanagh

I was lucky enough to live in the High Street in Tutbury in the 1960s and Tutbury Castle was my playground - we used to spend hours up there climbing on the walls and up the twisting stairs of the towers. One fond memory is one ...Read more

A memory of Tutbury in 1968 by Cherry Ann Dowling

I arrived in High Wycombe in as a young girl in 1946, from Scotland. I attended St. Bernard's Convent school. It was situated in a very large old house on the London Road, across from the Rye. We wore school uniforms, ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1955 by Maureen Ingram

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 started my life in 1936 at Charlmont Road. These houses had no bathroom (we used a tin bath in front of the fire) and outside toilets. I went to Selincourt Road Schools, infants then juniors. I remember during the war ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Brian Lawrence

The villagers organised a wonderful welcome for Father Christmas when he arrived at the village hall. They had prepared a 'Victorian Christmas Fair' with arts and crafts and local ...Read more

A memory of Stokeinteignhead in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

I went to the County Primary School from 1956 until 1962, the teachers were Mrs Bracken and Mr Gore, Mrs Gutterage was the cook and later my mother. The lady who lived directly behind the school kept lots of ...Read more

A memory of Church Minshull in 1956 by Tony Peet

I spent the first 3 years of my life in a nissan hut situated on the common. In 1953 after the flood we moved to Twyford Avenue where my brother now lives having purchased the house. I was married in St Nicholas church ...Read more

A memory of Great Wakering in 1960 by Maureen Farrell

bill.haylor@btinternet.com  Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs. Shops and services were limited but adequate. Village hierarchy although unwritten was arranged in a manner that ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by Bill Haylor