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I remember a little shop where we popped in to buy a pennyworth of sweets before catching the school bus that took us to Cowplain girls' school. At the time I lived in a farmhouse along the main street, I can't remember the address, ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1954 by Marian Plummer

I am researching my family tree and have discovered that my great-grandfather, Thomas Ashcroft, a besom (broom) maker, lived and made brooms at 122 Mill Street in 1862 before migrating to South Wales. I believe that most ...Read more

A memory of Leominster in 1860 by Mike Ashcroft

In 1956, my family moved into Jasmine Cottage which stands behind the wall on the left of this picture. It was (is) the centre cottage of 3 in one old building. There was a family that lived in the house on the right, ...Read more

A memory of Witley in 1954 by Hans Marsen

My parents lived in the house on the right, the end semi-detached house, I can just be seen in the photograph as the light coloured blob in the front garden. Normally I would have been at Garston Lane School, but in the late spring of ...Read more

A memory of Wantage in 1955 by Susan Bousfield

I have no personal memories of the Heacham, High House but I'm researching my Rolfe Family. I live in America and I am pretty sure the photo posted of the Heacham, High House c 1955 is actually Heacham Hall, the ...Read more

A memory of Heacham in 1941 by Clydene Williams/Cannon

I first visited Chaldon in the summer of 1946. My parents and I lived in Colindale, NW London in a rented house, at the end of the war the owners, who had lived downstairs, moved to Chaldon, and lived in the small ...Read more

A memory of Chaldon in 1946 by Jack Luxon

My mother-in-law has just passed away and we found this in her papers. My years at Stanford-le-Hope Laundry. I lived in a village where my mum and family had lived for generations. A signpost at the top of our lane said ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1930

As I told you, in Millfield there was only one shop, 'Jacksons', and two houses, Sewells and Gribbles, both in Victoria Terace where they turned their front parlour into shops. Sewells was run by Anne Veitche's mother, a nice lady, ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

Returning to England for a visit after being in Canada for seventeen years, I was anxious to find old friends and retrace steps I had taken years before when I called this my home. I arranged to meet up with my mother ...Read more

A memory of Otterbourne in 1968 by Denman Lalonde

I was fourteen in this year and I had been at Walbottle School about a year. I had teamed up with two mates, one was Tony Grey from Lemington who dressed like me and we were into the same music. One of the sayings at that time ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1957 by Jimmy Burrows