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I remember the walk to the Methodist Church in the Village, and the long journey to and from St. Henry's Grammar School. For some reason a Mr. Archer sticks in my memory, who taught us to swim in the round swimming pool that had no shallow ...Read more

A memory of Bramhope by andree.gillette

My name is Christine Breedon ( Goodey) I have written many a story about C.H and written many letters. I was wondering if anybody who was there in the late fifties and early sixties has a photo of the ...Read more

A memory of Hockley by Christine Breedon

My Grandfather and Grandmother, Mary and Charles Warner lived at a house called 'Old Trunk' in Cove, until 1925. I am not sure if this was 'Old Trunk Farm' as it was just a house, with no outbuildings as far as I can see from the one ...Read more

A memory of Cove by Chris Williams

My name is Ian Powell and lived at 48 Kew Bridge Road opposite the Plough and Waggon & Horses P/H. We arrived in 1947 when I was 6 mths old. I also had a younger sister Lynne who sadly passed earlier this year. Our house was ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by powlee

HI THERE, MY GREAT GRANDFATHER JESSE GAUSDEN USED TO LIVE AT 51 ALEXANDRA ROAD UCKFIELD UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1928. HE WAS BURIED IN THE OLD UCKFIELD CEMETERY. I WOULD DEARLY LOVE TO OBTAIN A PHOTO OF THE OLD GENTLEMAN IF ...Read more

A memory of Uckfield by jegausden

I am greatly surprised that there are no photos of Furzton Lake in the Frith archive. Our son David lived in a modern terraced house in Winsford Hill, Furzton until 2005. I remember there was a gap in the hedge with a gate we ...Read more

A memory of Furzton in 2000 by John Howard Norfolk

Hi, I lived on Glen Faba in the 1960s from the age 5-10. I remember Stanley Hickin and his dad and their two big alsatian dogs. Fond memories of fishing in the River Lea, not knowing at the time near fields weir there was a island that ...Read more

A memory of Hoddesdon in 1961 by Danny Marr

Did you go to St. Patricks Open Air School? I was sent in 1957 as I had very bad asthma and I left in 1965. The school was open to about a hundred girls who suffered from a range of chest conditions. The ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island in 1957

Is the pond still there? I remember delivering newspapers to the pub, and to other houses and cottages around the heath - by bike all the way from Moor Park shops! At least it was downhill from here - about three papers to the ...Read more

A memory of Batchworth Heath in 1958

My family and my father's before that (surname Kent) lived in Selsdon (84 and 32 Foxearth Road, 170 Littleheath Road, and 24 Benhurst Gardens) spanning c. 1930 - 1989. But at one point (after my father's death), my ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon in 1982 by T Kent