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My name is Alan Naber and in 1949 I was five years old and started my school life at Red Lion Road school. This is an account of how I saw life at that time with a few additions from other students I am still in ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by oldcyclist

I was 9 when we returned from Australia in the summer of 1967, we lived at 37 Farley Road after three different houses in Littleheath Road all belonging to friends of my parents, who conveniently were away on holiday by ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Cooper

I knew Thornton Heath very well, from the early 1950’s through to the end of the 1960’s. Shopping with my parents at Woolworths (opposite the clocktower) and ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath by d_harwood

As I remember the Almshouse have stood on the corner of George St and North End .Wilsons coffee shops were in North End and George St-also in Purley The photo of Surrey St in 1955 might show a stall selling gramoohone records ran ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by rogerpage0

Who remembers this junction in the 50`s and a large house on the left corner of Boyne hill called Amco House a lodging house for apprentices indentured at Anti Attrition engineering Co on Cannon lane Woodlands park. I was there with ...Read more

A memory of Maidenhead by fernandoferreira76

Does anyone remember Heads Fruit & Veg shop near Welling Corner?

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by Christopher Smith

When I was a child, my family stayed in the house then called "Fresh Field" on the corner of August Lane and Ride Lane (we were in the UK on 6 months home leave from the Far East where I grew up). ...Read more

A memory of Farley Green in 1967

I lived opposite Albury Manor School, in Taynton Drive, from c1964 to 1981. I never attended the school as I passed my 11-plus and went to Reigate County School for Girls. However, my mum used to go to evening classes there and I ...Read more

A memory of Merstham

When I was a child in the 1960's/70's, my parents and I would stand on this corner as a good vantage point to watch the London to Brighton rally. It was many years before I was old enough to venture inside The Feathers and sample their food and drink!

A memory of Merstham

On the left of this picture was the record shop. Certain I bought my first single in this shop - "Bits and Pieces" by the Dave Clark Five. The dentists (Barry Stern, Australian) was on the corner upstairs on the right, and around the ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1965 by Julius Bannister