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I was also born in Hawkesbury Upton and spent the first 27 years of my life there, many of my family are still there. I left the village when I married and moved to the Bristol area. I have 3 children and one grand ...Read more

A memory of Hawkesbury Upton in 1973 by Nick Starling

Very vivid memories of our school nativity plays at the town hall (I played Mary twice!) and also playing the piano in front of a large audience after coming first in my age group at the Farnborough and Aldershot music festival

A memory of Farnborough in 1977 by Sarah Steadman

My Grandfather and Grandmother were married in this church. My grandfather John Booth was a rock manufaturer - the Exhibition Rock Company in Gorton Street. I saw the lights being turned off in 1939 when the war broke out. My ...Read more

A memory of Blackpool in 1920 by Gloria Steer Nee Monk

My dad was the manager of Payantake Stores in West Wickham High Street for many years (from 1959 onwards). It used to be where Oxfam is now. We lived in the flat above the shop. There were regular break-ins at Croft Radio, ...Read more

A memory of West Wickham by Mary Atkinson

At one time I was a choir boy at All Saints Church. I cannot remember who was in the choir with me at the time but I do remember the vicar was the Reverend Bache. When I visited the church in 1997 ...Read more

A memory of Shelsley Beauchamp in 1940 by Antony Cook

I have fond memories of working at International Stores in the High Street, the manager's name was Mr Dodds.

A memory of Harlow in 1968 by Fred Fox

I have heard about the beautiful countryside around Greenock from an old friend - contact now lost. He moved from the Gorbals with his family when he was 12, in 1961ish. I think his father worked in the shipyards. Does anyone ...Read more

A memory of Greenock by Helena Mc Ginty

My friends, the 'Bartups', lived at No.1 Lycett Road. John, the father was an accountant who worked for ICI. His wife Isabella (Bella) was a Scots lady from Kirkcudbright, I believe. Two children John and Jean. John went to the ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1956 by Leslie James Payne

I was born to the sound of German bombs in St. Helier Hospital in 1943. I lived with my parents and grandparents in Leominster Road. That was a good place to live because of the 'forest' opposite' . To us little'uns it was a huge ...Read more

A memory of Morden by Tony Rivers

Apart from a weekend visit to see a football match some ten years earlier I had never been to Glasgow so you can imagine that it came as something of a shock to be offered an attractive job in the city in 1975. My ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1975 by John Howard Norfolk